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Peer of the realm

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Member of the highest aristocratic social order outside the ruling dynasty

Apeer of the realm is a member of the highest aristocratic social order outside the ruling dynasty of the kingdom.

Notable examples are:

a member of thepeerages in the United Kingdom, who is ahereditary peer or alife peer
a member of thePeerage of France (from French noble style "pair" in monarchies), of a similar order, as used in
- theKingdom of France
- theKingdom of Jerusalem (crusader state)
- theMonarchy of Canada:Canadian nobility in the Peerage of France
nobility proper of thePolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who enjoyed hereditaryparitas: those who would sit by hereditary right in Land Parliaments, or be Royal Electors, enjoy personal immunity, and the right to be judged only by the King's Court or the Court of Peers; also the exclusive right to be granted State or Land dignities and titles. TheSkartabelli who were middle-nobility in law were not peers, whilst noblemen who were not direct barons of the Crown but held land from other Lords were not peersde facto as they would not enjoy full noble privileges.
a member of the PortugueseChamber of Most Worthy Peers, upper house of theCortes Gerais, during the constitutional monarchy of theKingdom of Portugal.