Peer of the Realm is a term for a member of the (aristocratic) highest social order (not considering the ruling dynasty) in a kingdom, notably: * a member of the peerage in the British Isles who is a hereditary peer or a life peer * the English rendering of a member of a similar order in other monarchies, derived from the French noble style of pair as used in * the French kingdom * the crusader state kingdom of Jerusalem * nobility proper of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth who enjoyed hereditary paritas: those who would sit by hereditary right in Land Parliaments, or be Royal Electors, enjoy personal immunity, and the right to be judged only by the King's Court or the Court of Peers; also the exclusive right to be granted State or Land dignities and titles. The Skartabelli w