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List of peers 1240–1249

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJan 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ6593693 ↗
Source-derived summary

This page lists all peers who held extant titles between 1240 and 1249.

Peerage of England

Peerage of Scotland

Peerage of Ireland

References

Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1887). Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant. Vol. 1–8 (1st ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

Cracroft-Brennan, Patrick. "Cracroft's Peerage" (web). Heraldic Media Limited.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1240, 1249, 1887—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with List, peers and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of peers 1240–1249” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.