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Image: Quarterly 1 bendy of six or and gules, 2 or three chevrons sable, 3 gules three mullets of five points or, 4 argent a lion gules. Inescutcheon chequy or and gules|Gilbert III de Lévis<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Ventadour''' (1589)</span>
Image: Quarterly 1 bendy of six or and gules, 2 or three chevrons sable, 3 gules three mullets of five points or, 4 argent a lion gules. Inescutcheon chequy or and gules|Gilbert III de Lévis<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Ventadour''' (1589)</span>
Image: Rohan Montbazon.svg|Hercule de Rohan<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Montbazon''' (1588)</span>
Image: Rohan Montbazon.svg|Hercule de Rohan<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Montbazon''' (1588)</span>
Image: Quarterly 1 and 4 or a chevron gules between three eagles azure, beaked and membered gules; 2 or seme-de-lys azure, a canton gules; 3 lozengy or and gules; Inescutcheon gules two lions passant guardant or.|Claude de La Trémoille<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Thouars''' (1589)</span>
Image: Quarterly 1 Per saltire Aragon and Hohenstaufen-Sicily; 2 France Modern; 3 France Modern, a bendlet couped gules (de Bourbon); 4 Montmorency-Laval. Inescutcheon La Tremoille.|Claude de La Trémoille<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Thouars''' (1589)</span>
Image: Estrées.svg|Gabrielle d'Estrées<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duchess of Beaufort''' (1597)</span>
Image: Estrées.svg|Gabrielle d'Estrées<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duchess of Beaufort''' (1597)</span>
Image: Bourbon Vendome.svg|César de Bourbon<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Vendome''' (1598)</span>
Image: Bourbon Vendome.svg|César de Bourbon<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Vendome''' (1598)</span>

Revision as of 02:41, 4 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.