In 1996, he succeeded to his father's peerage title.

Children adopted into a family do not acquire rights of succession to a peerage title.

The term yeong-gam comes after public office and peerage titles in a man's name.

The same year, his peerage title was elevated to that of marquis.

Neither of these men, however, was usually known by their peerage title.

However, as surnames, they used the paternal main peerage title.

Rather, it was a totally new creation, this time in the form of a peerage title.

This was considered radical, as women did not normally inherit peerage titles.

It was the first hereditary peerage title granted to a woman.

No peerage titles are capable of being bought or sold.