There were five peerage ranks below the royal ranks, in descending order with common English translations: gōng 公 " duke ", hóu 侯 " marquis ", bó 伯 " count ", zǐ 子 " viscount " ( also extensively used as an honorific ) and nán 男 " baron ".

* in Meiji Japan, Kōshaku ( 侯爵 ), a hereditary peerage ( Kazoku ) rank, was introduced in 1884, granting a hereditary seat in the upper house of the imperial diet just as a British peerage did ( until the House of Lords Act 1999 ), with the ranks usually rendered as baron, viscount, count, marquis and duke.

In the Peerage of Scotland, the members of the lowest level of the peerage have the substantive title ' Lord of Parliament ' rather than baron.

The rank of baron is the most ancient degree of English nobility and a commoner who is raised directly to a high degree in the peerage, for example a former prime minister who becomes an Earl, is always created a baron at the same time, from historic precedent.

is a member of the European nobility whose comital title ranks usually, as in the British peerage, above a baron, below an earl ( in the United Kingdom ) or a count ( the earl's continental equivalent ).

He was raised to the rank of danshaku ( baron ) under the kazoku peerage system in 1902 ; and he was promoted to the rank of admiral in 1904.

He was made a baron ( danshaku ) under the kazoku peerage system in 1907.

In 1902, Kiyoura was elevated to the title of baron ( danshaku ) in the kazoku peerage system.

He was elevated to the rank of baron ( danshaku ) in the kazoku peerage system in April 1931.

On September 21, 1907, Saitō was ennobled with the title of danshaku ( baron ) under the kazoku peerage system.

In 1926, he was elevated to the title of danshaku ( baron ) under the kazoku peerage system.

Shidehara was elevated to the title of danshaku ( baron ) under the kazoku peerage system in 1920, and appointed to a seat in the House of Peers in 1925.

He was elevated into the kazoku peerage with the title of baron ( danshaku ) in 1902 and decorated with the 1st class of the Order of the Rising Sun.

In September 1857 Bunsen attended, as the king's guest, a meeting of the Evangelical Alliance at Berlin ; and one of the last papers signed by Frederick William, before his mind gave way in October, was that which conferred upon him the title of baron and a peerage for life.

* " baron " nán 男, which is also used outside of its use as a peerage term to indicate male gender in individual names and in classifications such as " men ", as the character's fundamental meaning is " male ".

French peerage thus differed from British peerage ( to whom the term " baronage ", also employed as the title of the lowest noble rank, was applied in its generic sense ), for the vast majority of French nobles, from baron to duke, were not peers.

Such a derivation would fit the early sense of " baron ", as used for the whole peerage and not simply as a noble rank below the comital.

Retiring from military service in 1909, he received the title of danshaku ( baron ) and later hakushaku ( count ) under the kazoku peerage system.

In June 1778 Wedderburn was promoted to the post of attorney-general, and in the same year he refused the dignity of chief baron of the exchequer because the offer was not accompanied by the promise of a peerage.

* Dewa Shigetō ( 1856 – 1930 ), an admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy, elevated to the peerage with the title of danshaku ( baron ).

When the protagonists are captured and imprisoned by a Norman baron, Scott interrupts the story to exclaim: It is grievous to think that those valiant barons, to whose stand against the crown the liberties of England were indebted for their existence, should themselves have been such dreadful oppressors, and capable of excesses contrary not only to the laws of England, but to those of nature and humanity.

* Burghley, William Cecil, baron, The Execution of Justice in England, 1583.

* MacLean, John: The life of Sir Thomas Seymour, knight, baron Seymour of Sudeley, Lord High Admiral of England and Master of the Ordnance J. C. Hotten, 1869

William I introduced " baron " as a rank in England to distinguish the men who had pledged their loyalty to him under the feudal system.

In the Norman conquest of England, Wigod supported the invader William of Normandy and afterwards Wigod gave his daughter Ealdgyth in marriage to the Norman baron Robert D ' Oyly, who had Wallingford Castle built.

* 1608 Sir Humphrey Winch, knt, chief baron ; from the exchequer ; made a justice of the common pleas of England

Under the terms of a royal grant in letters patent of James I of England on 6 July 1612, the Lord of Kerry ( FitzMaurice ) could hold courts baron and leet.

* Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester ( 1208 – 1265 ), son of the 5th Earl, a powerful English baron, led a revolt against King Henry III of England, called the first elected parliament

The Knights Templar order was very powerful in England, with the Master of the Temple sitting in parliament as primus baro ( the first baron of the realm ).

The origins of the British peerage are obscure but while the ranks of baron and earl perhaps predate the British peerage itself, the ranks of duke and marquess were introduced to England in the 14th century.

Sir John Lexington ( or Lexinton or Lessington ; also de Lexington ) ( died 1257 ) was a baron and royal official in 13th century England.

Stansted was a Saxon settlement ( the name means ' stony place ' in Anglo-Saxon ) and predates the Norman invasion of England, although it was not until this invasion that it acquired the suffix Mountfitchet from the Norman baron who settled there.

For example, the crown worn by the kings of Anglo-Saxon England was a diadem, as was that of a baron later ( in some countries surmounted by three globes ).

The court leet was a historical court baron ( a manorial court ) of England and Wales and Ireland that exercised the " view of frankpledge " and its attendant police jurisdiction, which was normally restricted to the hundred courts.

At a very early time in medieval England the Lord of the Manor exercised or claimed certain jurisdictional rights over his tenants and bondsmen concerning the administration of his manor and exercised those rights through his court baron.

* ( d. 1096 ), nicknamed " Aux Gernons " (" with moustaches "), Norman baron who emigrated to England after the Conquest

Many in England were caught off-guard by Rothermere's impassioned endorsement of the Hungarian cause ; it was rumoured that the press baron had been convinced to support it by the charms of a Hungarian seductress ( she turned out to be Austrian ).

In England, supporters are reserved for the peerage, and a Scottish baron who approaches the English College of Arms is not allowed supporters.

William was an important landowner throughout the West Midlands, the son of Ansculf of Picquigny, a Picard baron who came to England with William the Conqueror and built a castle at Dudley.

As for the de Lancinges family itself, to whom Luke de Ernle was kin: they were supporters of the Arundel earls of Sussex who were descended from Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, a major feudal baron who was granted large tracts of Sussex known as the Rape of Arundel in 1067 or 1068 from his kinsman, William I of England.

The estate changed hands again in 1805 when purchased by the 17th Baron Stourton, the premier baron in England.