peeress in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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She appointed ministers to officiate in them, under the impression that as a peeress she had a right to employ as many chaplains as she pleased.
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As she was later made a life peeress, he and his wife were one of the few couples both of whom held titles in their own right.
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Under the laws of heraldry, women, other than monarchs, do not normally bear helms nor crests; instead, the coronet alone is used (if she is a peeress or princess).
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A peeress by marriage loses the privilege upon marrying a commoner, but a peeress "suo jure" does not.
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To allow husbands of peeresses to take the equivalent style would be a wider issue to do with common law rather than peerage law per se.
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It was very rare for a woman to be created a peeress before the 17th century.
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Married women, however, always display their arms on a shield (except peeresses in their own right, who use the lozenge for their peerage arms even during marriage).
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The wives of peers, however, are peeresses and legally enjoy their titles in exactly the same manner as peeresses in their own right.
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A peer derives his precedence from his highest-ranking title; peeresses derive their precedence in their same way, whether they hold their highest-ranking title in their own right or by marriage.
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I take issue, however, with the designation of the husband of a peeress.
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