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[4] [failed verification] [5] [6] [7] However, the former authentic titles transmitted regularly can be recognized as part of the name after a request to the Department of Justice. [8] Families of the French nobility could have two origins as to their principle of nobility: the families of immemorial nobility and the ennobled families. [9]
Title extinguished in 1480; reestablished in 1527 for Louise of Savoy then returned in 1576 to the House of Valois. Title extinguished in 1584 with the Francis, 10th Duke. Raised as a courtesy title from 1981 to 1984 by the senior branch of the Bourbons. Duchy of Château-Thierry: List: 1400–1407 1556–1802
The title of "duke and peer" (Fr: duc et pair) is one of the highest honors in the French nobility, ranking just after the princes of the blood, which are themselves the direct descendants of the royal blood and are considered peers by birth. The word peer comes from the Latin paris, meaning "equal in dignity".
For an explanation of the French peerage, see the article Peerage of France. Note that peerages and titles were distinct, and the date given for the extinction of the peerage is not necessarily the same as that of the extinction of the title. For more on noble titles and distinctions, see French nobility.
In this category belong only those articles that are about noble titles that were bestowed by: either the ruling king of France during the existence of the kingdom and pretenders afterwards (843-present), as fount of honour
The prestigious title and position of Peer of France (French: Pair de France) was held by the greatest, highest-ranking members of the French nobility. [1] French peerage thus differed from British peerage (to whom the term "baronage", also employed as the title of the lowest noble rank, was applied in its generic sense), for the vast majority ...
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