peerage

Etymology

From Middle English perage, equivalent to peer + -age. Doublet of parage.

noun

1. Peers as a group; the titled nobility or aristocracy.
2. The rank or title of a peer or peeress.
   Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […] 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Tremarn Case
3. A book listing such people and their families.