British nobility
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The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the gentry of the British Isles.
Lady Margaret Beaufort
Elizabeth de Clare
The Lord Bishop William Smyth
Margaret, Countess of Salisbury
Earl
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Earl is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. In modern Britain, an earl is a member of the peerage, ranking below a marquess and above a viscount. A feminine form of earl never developed; ins
British nobility
…British history. In early 14th century England, it referred to the governing class of around 3,000 landowners with incomes of £20 a year or more, whether earls, barons, knights or esquires. As the English Parliament developed a bicameral structure, a more precise distinction arose between the hereditary peerage…
Odo of Bayeux, fighting in the Battle of Hastings as shown in the Bayeux Tapestry. Odo was later made Earl of Kent.
Hedingham Castle, seat of the Earls of Oxford, is in Essex where most of the earl's land was concentrated
The royal procession to the Parliament of England at Westminster on 4 February 1512. Left to right: The Marquess of Dorset (second from left), Earl of Northumberland, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Shrewsbury, Earl of Essex, Earl of Kent, Earl of Derby, Earl of Wiltshire. From Parliament Procession Roll of 1512.
Earl's coronation robes