Release 6.1 of Cracroft's Peerage (issued
November 2006) contains over 2,000 articles on the Royal Family, peerage titles, baronetcies, etc.:
- The British Monarchy: articles covering topics such as
- The Royal Family
- detailed narrative pedigrees of the English and British Kings from 1066 and the Scottish Kings from 1034
- Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens from King Henry VII onwards
- Hereditary Peerages: articles divided into the five Peerages of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United
Kingdom for easy reference
- narrative pedigrees of all current hereditary peerages and the more important extinct peerages
- listings of all extinct and dormant peerages
- Life Peerages
- brief details of all life peerages created under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876
(the Law Lords)
- brief details of all life peerages created under the Life Peerage Act 1958
- Baronetcies
- brief details of all current baronetcies
- listings of all extinct and dormant baronetcies
- British Titles by the late Valentine Heywood
- extensive extracts from this important work on British titles by kind permission of the publishers
- Heraldry and the Peerage
- an easy to understand explanation of the coat-of-arms of a peer
- Prime Ministers since 1721
- as the first of a series on the Great Office holders, this article shows how a large number of
British Prime Ministers had or have close family connections with the Peerage
- Orders of Chivalry and Merit
- an overview of the British Orders of Chivalry
- detailed listings of the past and present holders of the three leading British Orders
(the Garter, the Thistle and St Patrick) with links to biographical
information on holders who were or are members of the Peerage
- brief details of Foreign Orders
- Chiefs of Names and Arms in Scotland
We are working hard on Release 6.2, which should be available Spring 2007.