Burke's Peerage

Burke 's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, Burke 's Peerage in short, is the authoritative Adelslexikon in relation to the British and Irish nobility.

History

The genealogical reference was founded in 1826 by John Burke ( 1786-1848 ) and initially continued by his sons. In the years 1840-1917 and 1923-1940 revised editions were published annually, later she appeared only sporadically. After the 105th edition in 1970 was created by the bankruptcy of the publisher Burke 's Peerage ( Genealogical Books) Ltd. an almost 30-year interruption until the 106th updated edition was commissioned by the publisher Morris Genealogical Books in print in 1999. Writing, the current 107th edition was published from 2004 by the editor Charles Mosley under the publisher name Burke 's Peerage & Gentry. It was extended, especially in the areas of knighthood ( Knightage ), the leading early medieval Irish and Scottish families as well as the Scottish feudal barons, and now also includes the details of 120,000 living persons.

Content

In Burke 's Peerage, there are mainly items of historical and existing nobility, politicians, artists, industrialists, teachers, and military personnel.

Burke's original title of the first edition A general and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom for MDCCCXXVI. Exhibiting, under strict alphabetical arrangement, The Present State of Those exalted ranks, With Their Armorial Bearings, mottoes, etc. And deducing the lineage of each House from the Founder of Honors its already referred to the outstanding features of the work, which among other then circulating nobility directories highlighted. Burke's alphabetical arrangement was against the customs of his time to arrange the noble houses according to their rank or her age, almost be called revolutionary. Other nobility encyclopedias led departments for the nobility, the ( Peerage of Ireland) in England ( Peerage of England), Scotland ( Peerage of Scotland), Ireland, or in the period after the founding of Great Britain ( Peerage of Great Britain ) and the United Kingdom ( Peerage of the United Kingdom) had been created. All these directories presuppose a thorough knowledge of the structure and the history of the British monarchy. Compared to these, Burke 's Peerage was also suitable for the interested layman as a reference.

At Burke 's Peerage was joined in 1833, founded by John Burke's son, Sir John Bernard Burke, Burke's Landed Gentry, a genealogical register of British landowners and country gentlemen. After years of separate publication in various publishing houses the rights to the two directories were reunited in a house from 1999 and are supervised since 2001 by the publisher Burke 's Peerage and Gentry (Editor Charles Mosley ).

In the Anglo -Saxon Burke 's Peerage is as significant as in continental Europe the Gotha Almanac needle.

"The Burke Burke 's Peerage " is not to be confused with the " Burke 's Peerage World Book of Surnames ", owned by a different company and has issued a controversial work in which it is alleged that the relationships each common surname in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland and to reveal Scotland and found that about telemarketing wide distribution in the United States. Since 9/11 the " Burke 's Peerage World Book of Surnames " has been used repeatedly by conspiracy theorists who try, for example, the Bush family made ​​him prove relationships with certain European royal houses. The original "The Burke Burke 's Peerage " team has distanced himself from these allegations several times significantly.

Mention in the literature

In the original edition of the Discworld novels of the fantasy author Terry Pratchett a similar work called Twurp 's P- eerage exists. It is a humorous fusion of Burke's (which rhymes with Twurp 's) and the British conceptual Twerp, an insult which can be translated as " annoying person " or " bottle ", " Heini " or the like. This refers to the perceived as snooty and elitist behavior of many nobles of the past centuries.