Welsh peers and baronets

This is an index of Welsh peers and baronets whose primary peerage, life peerage, and baronetcy titles include a Welsh place-name origin or its territorial qualification[clarification needed] is within the historic counties of Wales.

Welsh Law remained in force in the Principality for civil cases, including for inheritance.

[1][2] After the deposition by the English parliament in February 1689 of King James II and VII from the thrones of England and Ireland (the Scottish Estates followed suit on 11 April 1689), he and his successors continued to create peers and baronets, which became known as the Jacobite Peerage.

Title became extinct in 1962 This is an index of Welsh life peers whose primary territorial qualification is within the historic counties of Wales.

The rank of a baronet is between that of a baron and a knight; it has never entitled the bearer to a seat in the House of Lords, but it is hereditary.