Baronage

King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215, surrounded by his baronage. Illustration from Cassell's History of England, 1902.

In England, the baronage was the collectively inclusive term denoting all members of the feudal nobility, as observed by the constitutional authority Edward Coke.[1] It was replaced eventually by the term peerage.

  1. ^ Coke, quoted by Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th. ed., vol. 3, p. 387, Baron