Peerage of Ireland - Miler Magrath, Earl of Sefton, Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Earl of Desmond, Baron Brereton, Baron Fermoy (Paperback)


Chapters: Miler Magrath, Earl of Sefton, Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Earl of Desmond, Baron Brereton, Baron Fermoy, Robert Jocelyn, 1st Viscount Jocelyn, William O'brien, 2nd Earl of Inchiquin, William O'brien, 3rd Earl of Inchiquin, Peerage of England and Ireland by Date, Viscount Fane, Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal, Thomas Fleming, 10th Baron Slane. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 54. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those titles of nobility created by the English and later British monarchs of Ireland in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount and Baron. The British Crown continues to exercise jurisdiction over the Peerage of Ireland, including those peers whose titles derive from places located in what is now the Republic of Ireland. William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster.A handful of titles in the peerage of Ireland date from the Middle Ages. Before 1801, Irish peers were those who had the right to sit in the Irish House of Lords, but after the Union in 1801, they elected just twenty-eight representative peers to the House of Lords at Westminster. Both before and after the Union, Irish peerages were often used as a way of creating peerages which did not grant a seat in the House of Lords. As a consequence, many Irish peers had little or no connection to Ireland, and indeed the names of some Irish peerages (for example, the Earldoms of Mexborough and Ranfurly) refer to places elsewhere in the British Isles. Irish peerages continued to be created for almost a century after the Union, mostly for this purpose, although the treaty of Union placed restrictions on their numbers: three needed to become e...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=19264

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Chapters: Miler Magrath, Earl of Sefton, Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Earl of Desmond, Baron Brereton, Baron Fermoy, Robert Jocelyn, 1st Viscount Jocelyn, William O'brien, 2nd Earl of Inchiquin, William O'brien, 3rd Earl of Inchiquin, Peerage of England and Ireland by Date, Viscount Fane, Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal, Thomas Fleming, 10th Baron Slane. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 54. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those titles of nobility created by the English and later British monarchs of Ireland in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount and Baron. The British Crown continues to exercise jurisdiction over the Peerage of Ireland, including those peers whose titles derive from places located in what is now the Republic of Ireland. William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster.A handful of titles in the peerage of Ireland date from the Middle Ages. Before 1801, Irish peers were those who had the right to sit in the Irish House of Lords, but after the Union in 1801, they elected just twenty-eight representative peers to the House of Lords at Westminster. Both before and after the Union, Irish peerages were often used as a way of creating peerages which did not grant a seat in the House of Lords. As a consequence, many Irish peers had little or no connection to Ireland, and indeed the names of some Irish peerages (for example, the Earldoms of Mexborough and Ranfurly) refer to places elsewhere in the British Isles. Irish peerages continued to be created for almost a century after the Union, mostly for this purpose, although the treaty of Union placed restrictions on their numbers: three needed to become e...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=19264

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September 2010

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56

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978-1-157-26235-0

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9781157262350

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