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Image: Grimaldi.svg|Jacques I Goyon de Matignon<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Prince of Monaco<br>'''Duke of Valentinois''' (1716)</span>
Image: Grimaldi.svg|Jacques I Goyon de Matignon<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Prince of Monaco<br>'''Duke of Valentinois''' (1716)</span>
Image: D'Aubusson.svg|Louis d'Aubusson<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of La Feuillade''' (1716)</span>
Image: D'Aubusson.svg|Louis d'Aubusson<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of La Feuillade''' (1716)</span>
Image: Azure on a pale argent three towers gules, flanked by four claws of lion issuant from the flanks of the shield positioned in chevron.|Louis-Antoine de Brancas<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Villars-Brancas''' (1716)</span>
Image: Villars-Brancas: Azure on a pale argent three towers gules, flanked by four claws of lion issuant from the flanks of the shield positioned in chevron.|Louis de Brancas<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Villars-Brancas''' (1716)</span>
Image: Mancini-Mazarini: Quarterly Mazarin and Mancini.|Philippe Jules Mancini<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Nevers''' (1720)</span>
Image: Mancini-Mazarini: Quarterly Mazarin and Mancini.|Philippe Jules Mancini<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Nevers''' (1720)</span>
Image: Gontaut.svg|Charles-Armand de Gontaut<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Biron''' (1723)</span>
Image: Gontaut.svg|Charles-Armand de Gontaut<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Biron''' (1723)</span>

Revision as of 11:17, 5 June 2015

The Peerage of France consisted of the highest-ranking members of the French nobility. The original twelve peers were constituted in time immemorial.
Later peers were created by the King of France. The coats of arms shown below depict the arms of the peer when the peerage was granted.
Peers who changed arms are marked with an asterisk (*), followed by a reference to titles later or formerly borne.