The Peerage of France (French: Pairie de France) was a hereditary distinction within the French nobility which appeared in 1180 during the Middle Ages...

Saint-Aignan was elevated to a dukedom in 1663, with the special privilege of the peerage (duché-pairie), making him one of the highest ranking aristocrats of the...

historiques de la ville et Comté-Pairie de Chalons-sur-Marne (in French). Chalons: Seneuze. Clause, Georges; et al., eds. (1989). Le Diocèse de Châlons (in...

recognized officially, used by or for: the count of Flanders (an original pairie of the French realm in present Belgium, very rich, once expected to be raised...

de Valois, who would later by made the duc d'Angoulême In July 1551, Montmorency was elevated from a simple baron, to the distinction of duché-pairie...

duché-pairie. Henri wrote to Biron's brother in law La Force to assure him the king maintained his affections for the other members of the family, La Force...

Bourgogne. That same year, his marquisate of Mayenne was elevated to a duché pairie. He travelled with Anjou when he was elected as king of the Commonwealth...

marquisate d'Elbeuf was raised to a duché pairie, followed by the duc de Piney-Luxembourg in October and the comte de Retz in November. On 31 December of that...

peerage or pairie ancienne, and the number twelve is sometimes said to have been chosen to mirror the 12 paladins of Charlemagne in the Chanson de geste (see...

However this action was taken because Nevers had been elevated to the duché pairie (ducal-peerage) a month prior to Montpensier. Much of the policy of the...