Editing Peerages in the United Kingdom (section)

== Counterparts ==
Other [[feudal monarchies]] equally held a similar system, grouping high nobility of different rank titles under one term, with common privileges and/or in an assembly, sometimes legislative and/or judicial.

[[Itō Hirobumi]] and the other [[Meiji period|Meiji]] leaders deliberately modeled the [[Japanese House of Peers]] on the [[House of Lords]], as a counterweight to the popularly elected [[House of Representatives of Japan|House of Representatives]] (''Shūgiin'').

In France, the system of [[Peerage of France|pairie]]s (peerage) existed in two different versions: the exclusive 'old' in the French kingdom, in many respects an inspiration for the English and later British practice, and the very prolific [[Chambre des Pairs]] under the Bourbon Restoration (1814–1848).

In Spain and Portugal, the closest equivalent title was [[Grandee]]; in Hungary, [[Magnat]].

In the Kingdom of Sicily a peerage was instituted in 1812 in connection with the abolition of feudalism: peers were nominated based on the taxable incomes of their formerly feudal estates.

In the [[Holy Roman Empire]], instead of an exclusive aristocratic assembly, the legislative body was the [[Imperial Diet (Holy Roman Empire)|Imperial Diet]], membership of which, expressed by the title [[Prince of the Holy Roman Empire]], was granted to allied princely families (and various minor ones), as well as to Princes of the Church (parallel to the Lords Spiritual) and in some cases was restricted to a collective 'curiate' vote in a 'bench', such as the [[Count|Grafenbank]].

In the medieval [[Irish nobility]], Gaelic nobles were those presented with the [[White Wand]] or ''slat'' in a formal ceremony, and presented it by another noble. It was the primary symbol of lordship and effectively reserved only for the three tiers of kings (provincial, regional, local) and for those princely and comital families descending from them in control of significant territories. The total number was between 100 and 150 at any time.