Note 52 — PART I.
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The twelve peers of France first appear at the coronation of Philip Augustus. There were six lay peers and six ecclesiastical peers:
Duke of Burgundy.
„ Normandy.
„ Guienne or Aquitaine.
Count of Toulouse.
„ Flanders.
„ Champagne.
Archbishop Duke of Reims.
Bishop Duke of Laon.
„ „ Langres.
Bishop Count of Beauvais.
„ „ Chalons.
„ „ Noyon.
As the titles of the lay peers grew extinct, and their fiefs lapsed to the crown, it became customary for them to be represented by some great nobles at the coronations of the kings of France.