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

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king. In 1711, Louis XIV promoted the marquisate of Antin into a "duché-pairie", and in 1724 d'Antin became a knight of the Ordre du Saint-Esprit. An excellent...

bought the village of his ancestors; he had the estate raised to a duché-pairie in August 1631. He engaged the architect Jacques Lemercier, who had designed...

these aristocratic families in the Ancien Régime). This operation remained uncertain, the Dukes and peers of France being watchful, and the Rohans secured...

raised to a duché-pairie by Louis XIII. He died the following year. Charles II de Cossé was born in 1550, the son of Charles I de Cossé and Charlotte...

lui-même vicomte Hugo titre sous lequel, Louis-Philippe Ier, l'appel à la pairie tandis que son frère se faisait appeler le comte Hugo. Ces titres n'ont...

Religion and troubles of the early 17th century. By the end of France's Ancien Régime, the core of Puisaye including Bléneau, Saint-Fargeau, Toucy and...