baronage
/ˈbar(ə)nɪdʒ
/noun
1 [treated as singular or plural] Barons or nobles collectively: he owed his position to his popularity with the baronage...
- The knights stayed with the citizens rather than joining the baronage, with whom they had much in common, adding great weight to the Commons house.
- Nearly the entire baronage, as well as the local population, was hostile.
- Conrad had the support of the local baronage still, but the newcomers saw him as inexplicably hostile.
2An annotated list of barons or peers.To the ' Official Baronage of England,' of which the first three volumes lie before me in their dignified splendour, it may be foreseen that writers on subjects of national English biography will soon accumulate a considerable debt....
- Symon Loccard (who Douglas' Baronage lists as the 6th of Lockhart of Lee and Simon Macdonald Lockhart's "Seven Centuries" lists as the 2nd of Lee 1300) fought alongside King Bruce in the struggle to free Scotland from English domination.
- Paget's Baronage gives no birthdate for either Thomas Basset or Gilbert Basset.
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