Earldoms in the Peerage of England up to 1485
| Title | Date of creation | Surname | Current status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earl of Northumbria | 1017 | Hlathir | extinct 1023 | 1st creation; recreated 1031, 1055, 1065, 1067, 1068, 1072, 1075, 1080, 1086, 1139, 1189 |
| Earl of East Anglia | 1017 | Thorkell | forfeit 1021 | 1st creation; recreated 1044, 1051, 1067 |
| Earl of Wessex | 1020 | Godwine | extinct 1066 | 1st creation; recreated 1999 |
| Earl of Kent | 1020 | Godwine | extinct 1066 | 1st creation; recreated 1067, 1141, 1227, 1321, 1360, 1461, 1465, 1866 |
| Earl of Mercia | 1030 | Leofric | extinct 1071 | |
| Earl of Northumbria | 1031 | Siward | extinct 1055 | 2nd creation; recreated 1055, 1065, 1067, 1068, 1072, 1075, 1080, 1086, 1139, 1189 |
| Earl of Hereford | 1043 | Godwine | forfeit 1051 | 1st creation; recreated 1052, 1058, 1067, 1141, 1199 |
| Earl of East Anglia | 1044 | Godwine | extinct 1067 | 2nd creation; forfeit 1051-1057; recreated 1051, 1067 |
| Earl of East Anglia | 1051 | Leofric | forfeit 1057 | 3rd creation; recreated 1067 |
| Earl of Hereford | 1052 | de Mantes | extinct 1057 | 2nd creation; recreated 1058, 1067, 1141, 1199 |
| Earl of Northumbria | 1055 | Godwine | extinct 1065 | 3rd creation; recreated 1065, 1067, 1068, 1072, 1075, 1080, 1086, 1139, 1189 |
| Earl of Hereford | 1058 | Godwine | extinct 1066 | 3rd creation; recreated 1067, 1141, 1199 |
| Earl of Huntingdon | 1065 | Siward, de Senlis, Dunkeld | extinct 1237 | 1st creation; also Earl of Northampton; created Earl of Northumbria from 1139 to 1157; recreated 1337, 1377, 1388, 1471, 1529 |
| Earl of Northampton | 1065 | Siward, de Senlis, Dunkeld | extinct 1237 | 1st creation; also Earl of Huntingdon; created Earl of Northumbria from 1139 to 1157; recreated 1337, 1604, 1618 |
| Earl of Northumbria | 1065 | Leofric | forfeit 1067 | 4th creation; recreated 1067, 1067, 1067, 1068, 1072, 1075, 1080, 1086, 1139, 1189 |
| Earl of East Anglia | 1067 | de Gael | renamed 1070 | 4th creation; renamed to Earl of Norfolk in 1070 |
| Earl of Hereford | 1067 | Fitzosbern | forfeit 1074 | 4th creation; recreated 1141, 1199 |
| Earl of Kent | 1067 | Odo | forfeit 1088 | 2nd creation; recreated 1141, 1227, 1321, 1360, 1461, 1465, 1866 |
| Earl of Northumbria | 1067 | Copsi | extinct 1067 | 5th creation; recreated 1067, 1068, 1072, 1075, 1080, 1086, 1139, 1189 |
| Earl of Northumbria | 1067 | Osulf | extinct 1067 | 6th creation; recreated 1067, 1068, 1072, 1075, 1080, 1086, 1139, 1189 |
| Earl of Northumbria | 1067 | Gospatric | forfeit 1072 | 7th creation; forfeit 1068-1070; recreated 1068, 1072, 1075, 1080, 1086, 1139, 1189 |
| Earl of Cornwall | 1068 | Moreton | forfeit 1106 | 1st creation; recreated 1140, 1141, 1180, 1189, 1217, 1225, 1307, 1330 |
| Earl of Northumbria | 1068 | de Comyn | extinct 1069 | 8th creation; recreated 1070, 1072, 1075, 1080, 1086, 1139, 1189 |
| Earl of Dorset | 1070 | Osmund | extinct 1099 | 1st creation; recreated 1411, 1441, 1603 |
| Earl of Norfolk | 1070 | de Gael | forfeit 1074 | 1st creation; recreated 1140, 1312, 1644 |
| Earl of Chester | 1071 | d'Avranches | extinct 1120 | 1st creation; recreated 1121, 1253, 1264, 1850 |
| Earl of Northumbria | 1072 | Siward | forfeit 1075 | 9th creation; recreated 1075, 1080, 1086, 1139, 1189 |
| Earl of Shrewsbury | 1074 | de Montgomery | forfeit 1102 | |
| Earl of Northumbria | 1075 | Walcher | extinct 1080 | 10th creation; also Bishop of Durham; recreated 1080, 1086, 1139, 1189 |
| Earl of Northumbria | 1080 | de Coucy | resigned 1086 | 11th creation; recreated 1086, 1139, 1189 |
| Earl of Albemarle | 1081 | de Blois, de Fortz | extinct 1274 | |
| Earl of Northumbria | 1086 | de Mowbray | forfeit 1095 | 12th creation; recreated 1139, 1189 |
| Earl of Surrey | 1088 | de Warenne | extinct 1415 | |
| Earl of Warwick | 1088 | de Newburgh | forfeit 1499 | |
| Earl of Gloucester | 1093 | Fitzeustace | extinct 1094 | |
| Earl of Buckingham | 1097 | de Giffard | extinct 1166 | |
| Earl of Devon | 1100 | de Redvers | forfeit 1471 | also forfeit 1461–1470 |
| Earl of Leicester | 1107 | Bellamont or Beaumont | extinct 1204 | |
| Earl of Dorset | 1121 | Mordaunt | extinct 1350 | also Earl of Middlesex from 1141 |
| Earl of Chester | 1121 | Meschin, Gernon, Kevelioc, Blondeville | extinct 1232 | 2nd creation; recreated 1253, 1264, 1850 |
| Earl of Gloucester | 1121 | Fitzroy, Fitzrobert | extinct 1183 | |
| Earl of Richmond | 1136 | de Bretagne | extinct 1203 | |
| Earl of Arundel | 1138 | de Albini, Fitzalan, Howard | extant | also Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Surrey and Earl of Norfolk from 1660 |
| Earl of Bedford | 1138 | Bellemont | forfeit 1142 | |
| Earl of Derby | 1138 | Ferrers | forfeit 1266 | |
| Earl of Hertford | 1138 | Clare | extinct 1314 | |
| Earl of Pembroke | 1138 | Clare | extinct 1185 | |
| Earl of Worcester | 1138 | de Bellomont | extinct 1145 | |
| Earl of Essex | 1139 | de Mandeville | extinct 1189 | |
| Earl of Northumbria | 1139 | Dunkeld | forfeit 1157 | 13th creation; also Earl of Huntingdon; recreated 1189 |
| Earl of Cornwall | 1140 | de Bretagne | deprived 1141 | 2nd creation; recreated 1141, 1180, 1189, 1217, 1225, 1307, 1330 |
| Earl of Norfolk | 1140 | Bigod | extinct 1307 | 2nd creation; recreated 1312, 1644 |
| Earl of Cornwall | 1141 | Dunstanville | extinct 1175 | 3rd creation; recreated 1180, 1189, 1217, 1225, 1307, 1330 |
| Earl of Hereford | 1141 | de Gloucester, Fitzmiles | extinct 1155 | 5th creation; recreated 1199 |
| Earl of Kent | 1141 | Ipre | forfeit 1155 | 3rd creation; recreated 1227, 1321, 1360, 1461, 1465, 1866 |
| Earl of Lincoln | 1141 | Romare | extinct 1155 | |
| Earl of Middlesex | 1141 | Mordaunt | extinct 1350 | also Earl of Dorset from 1121 |
| Earl of Oxford | 1142 | Vere | dormant 1703 | |
| Earl of Salisbury | 1145 | de Salisbury | extinct 1322 | |
| Earl of Lincoln | 1147 | de Gant | extinct 1156 | |
| Earl of Buckingham | 1164 | de Clare | extinct 1176 | also Earl of Pembroke |
| Earl of Cornwall | 1180 | Baldwin | extinct 1188 | 4th creation; recreated 1189, 1217, 1225, 1307, 1330 |
| Earl of Gloucester | 1186 | Plantagenet | merged in crown 1199 | |
| Earl of Cornwall | 1189 | Plantagenet | extinct 1199 | 5th creation; recreated 1217, 1225, 1307, 1330 |
| Earl of Northumbria | 1189 | de Puiset | extinct 1195 | 14th creation; also Bishop of Durham |
| Earl of Pembroke | 1189 | Marshall | extinct 1245 | |
| Earl of Essex | 1199 | Fitzpiers | extinct 1227 | |
| Earl of Hereford | 1199 | de Bohun | extant 1373 | lands and titles stolen by crown. |
| Earl of Leicester | 1206 | Montfort | forfeit 1264 | |
| Earl of Winchester | 1207 | Quincy | extinct 1264 | |
| Earl of Cornwall | 1217 | Fitz-Count | resigned 1220 | 6th creation; recreated 1225, 1307, 1330 |
| Earl of Lincoln | 1217 | de Blundeville | extinct 1232 | also Earl of Chester |
| Earl of Gloucester | 1218 | de Clare | extinct 1314 | also Earl of Hertford |
| Earl of Kent | 1226 | Burgh | extinct 1243 | 4th creation; recreated 1321, 1360, 1461, 1465, 1866 |
| Earl of Cornwall | 1226 | Plantagenet | extinct 1300 | 7th creation; recreated 1307, 1330 |
| Earl of Essex | 1227 | de Bohun | extant 1372 | |
| Earl of Lincoln | 1232 | Lacy, Plantagenet | extinct 1348 | |
| Earl of Warwick | 1246 | Plessets | extinct 1268 | |
| Earl of Pembroke | 1247 | Valence | extinct 1323 | |
| Earl of Chester | 1253 | Plantagenet | extinct 1253 | 3rd creation; recreated 1264, 1850 |
| Earl of Chester | 1264 | de Montfort | forfeit 1265 | 4th creation; recreated 1850 |
| Earl of Lancaster | 1267 | Plantagenet | forfeit 1321 | restored 1327; created Duke of Lancaster in 1351 |
| Earl of Richmond | 1268 | de Dreux | extinct 1399 | |
| Earl of Warwick | 1268 | Beauchamp | extinct 1449 | created Duke of Warwick in 1444 |
| Earl of Leicester | 1274 | Plantagenet | extinct 1361 | |
| Earl of Sussex | 1282 | Plantagenet | extinct 1347 | |
| Earl of Arundel | 1289 | Fitzalan, Howard | extant | forfeit 1326–1331, 1397–1400, 1589–1604 |
| Earl of Gloucester and Hertford | 1299 | Monthermer | extinct 1306 | |
| Earl of Chester | 7 February 1301 | Plantagenet | merged in crown 1307 | also Prince of Wales |
| Earl of Cornwall | 6 August 1307 | de Graveston | extinct 1312 | |
| Earl of Norfolk | 16 December 1312 | Plantagenet | extinct 1338 | |
| Earl of Kent | 28 July 1321 | Plantagenet | extinct 1385 | |
| Earl of Carlisle | 25 March 1322 | Harclay | forfeit 1323 | |
| Earl of Winchester | 10 May 1322 | Despencer | forfeit 1326 | |
| Earl of March | 9 November 1328 | Mortimer, Plantagenet | merged in crown 1461 | forfeit 1330–1354; also Earl of Ulster in Ireland from 1382; also Duke of York and Earl of Cambridge from 1425 |
| Earl of Cornwall | 1 December 1330 | Plantagenet | extinct 1336 | |
| Earl of Salisbury | 13 March 1337 | Montacute | forfeit 1400 | |
| Earl of Derby | 16 March 1337 | Plantagenet | extinct 1361 | also Earl of Lancaster and Earl of Leicester; created Earl of Lincoln in 1349 and Duke of Lancaster in 1351 |
| Earl of Gloucester | 16 March 1337 | Despencer, Audley | extinct 1347 | |
| Earl of Huntingdon | 16 March 1337 | de Clinton, Clinton | extinct 1354 | |
| Earl of Northampton | 16 March 1337 | Bohun | extinct 1438 | abeyant 1373–1384 |
| Earl of Suffolk | 16 March 1337 | Ufford | extinct 1382 | |
| Earl of Pembroke | 13 October 1339 | Hastings | extinct 1391 | |
| Earl of Cambridge | 7 May 1340 | de Juliers | extinct 1361 | |
| Earl of Richmond | 24 September 1341 | Montfort | extinct 1345 | also Duke of Brittany in France |
| Earl of Richmond | 26 September 1345 | Plantagenet | surrendered peerage 1372 | also Earl of Lancaster and Earl of Leicester from 1361; created Duke of Lancaster in 1362 |
| Earl of Lincoln | 20 August 1349 | Plantagenet | extinct 1361 | also Earl of Lancaster, Earl of Leicester, and Earl of Derby; created Duke of Lancaster in 1351 |
| Earl of Stafford | 3 March 1351 | Stafford | forfeit 1521 | created Duke of Buckingham in 1444; forfeit 1483–1486 |
| Earl of Kent | 20 November 1360 | Holland | extinct 1408 | created Duke of Surrey in 1397, which title forfeit 1400 |
| Earl of Cambridge | 13 November 1362 | Plantagenet | resigned peerage 1414 | created Duke of York in 1385 |
| Earl of Bedford | 11 May 1366 | de Courcy, Couci | resigned 1377 | |
| Earl of Richmond | 20 June 1372 | Montfort | extinct 1399 | also Duke of Brittany in France |
| Earl of Norfolk | 1375 | Manny, Mowbray | extinct 1481 | created Duchess of Norfolk in 1397; that title extinct 1400; also Earl of Nottingham 1400–1476 and Duke of Norfolk 1425–1476 |
| Earl of Buckingham | 13 July 1377 | Plantagenet | extinct 1399 | created Duke of Gloucester in 1385; that title forfeit 1397 |
| Earl of Nottingham | 15 July 1377 | Mowbray | extinct 1382 | |
| Earl of Northumberland | 16 July 1377 | Percy | forfeit 1537 | also forfeit 1406–1414, 1461–1470 |
| Earl of Huntingdon | 16 July 1377 | Angle | extinct 1380 | |
| Earl of Nottingham | 2 February 1383 | Mowbray | extinct 1475 | created Duke of Norfolk 1397; the ducal title was not in use 1399–1425 |
| Earl of Suffolk | 6 August 1385 | Pole | forfeit 1503 | created Marquess of Suffolk in 1444 and Duke of Suffolk in 1448; those titles surrendered in 1493 |
| Earl of Derby | 3 September 1385 | Plantagenet | merged in crown 1399 | created Duke of Hereford in 1397; also Duke of Lancaster, Earl of Lancaster, and Earl of Leicester from 1399 |
| Earl of Huntingdon | 2 June 1387 | Holland | forfeit 1461 | created Duke of Exeter in 1397; both peerages forfeit 1400; restored 1417; again created Duke of Exeter in 1443 |
| Earl of Rutland | 25 February 1390 | Plantagenet | extinct 1402 | created Duke of Aumale in 1397, but deprived of the title in 1399; title was created only in the lifetime of his father; he became Duke of York and Earl of Cambridge at his father's death in 1402 |
| Earl of Oxford | 12 February 1392 | Vere | extinct 1703 | forfeit 1474–1485 |
| Earl of Somerset | 10 February 1397 | Beaufort | forfeit 1463 | created Marquess of Somerset in 1397, but deprived of the title in 1399; created Duke of Somerset in 1443; that title extinct 1444; also Marquess of Dorset and Earl of Dorset from 1444; created Duke of Somerset in 1448 |
| Earl of Gloucester | 29 September 1397 | Le Despencer | deprived of peerage 1399 | |
| Earl of Westmorland | 29 September 1397 | Nevill | forfeit 1570 | |
| Earl of Wiltshire | 29 September 1397 | Scrope | forfeit 1399 | |
| Earl of Worcester | 29 September 1397 | Percy | extinct 1404 | |
| Earl of Dorset | 5 July 1411 | Beaufort | extinct 1426 | created Duke of Exeter in 1416 |
| Earl of Aumale | 9 July 1412 | Plantagenet | extinct 1421 | subsidiary title of the Duke of Clarence |
| Earl of Cambridge | 1 May 1414 | Plantagenet | merged in crown 1461 | attainted 1415–1426 |
| Earl of Kendal | 16 May 1414 | Plantagenet | extinct 1435 | subsidiary title of the Duke of Bedford created Earl of Richmond in 1414 |
| Earl of Pembroke | 16 May 1414 | Plantagenet | extinct 1447 | subsidiary title of the Duke of Gloucester |
| Earl of Richmond | 24 November 1414 | Plantagenet | extinct 1435 | also Duke of Bedford and Earl of Kendal |
| Earl of Worcester | February 1421 | Beauchamp | extinct 1431 | |
| Earl of Dorset | August 1441 | Beaufort | forfeit 1463 | created Marquess of Dorset in 1442 and Duke of Somerset in 1448 |
| Earl of Shrewsbury | 20 May 1442 | Talbot | extant | created Earl of Waterford in Ireland in 1446, also Earl Talbot in Great Britain from 1856. From 1694 to 1718 also Duke of Shrewsbury and Marquess of Alton. 2nd and last creation. |
| Earl of Salisbury | 1442 | Nevill | forfeit 1471 | also Earl of Warwick from 1460 |
| Earl of Kendal | 28 August 1443 | Beaufort | extinct 1444 | subsidiary title of the Duke of Somerset; also Earl of Somerset |
| Earl of Kendal | 1446 | de Foix | extinct 1485 | |
| Earl of Wiltshire | 8 July 1449 | Butler | extinct 1461 | |
| Earl of Worcester | 16 July 1449 | Tiptoft | forfeit 1485 | |
| Earl of Warwick | 23 July 1449 | Nevill | forfeit 1471 | also Earl of Salisbury from 1460 |
| Earl of Surrey | 24 March 1451 | Mowbray | extinct 1475 | also Duke of Norfolk from 1461 |
| Earl of Richmond | 6 March 1453 | Tudor | forfeit 1461 | |
| Earl of Pembroke | 6 March 1453 | Tudor | extinct 1495 | forfeit 1461–1485; created Duke of Bedford in 1485 |
| Earl of Essex | 30 June 1461 | Bourchier | extinct 1539 | |
| Earl of Kent | 30 June 1461 | Nevill | extinct 1463 | |
| Earl of Kent | 20 May 1465 | Grey | extinct 1740 | created Marquess of Kent and Earl of Harold in 1706; created Duke of Kent in Great Britain in 1710 and Marquess Grey in Great Britain in 1740 |
| Earl Rivers | 24 May 1466 | Widvile | extinct 1491 | |
| Earl of Lincoln | 13 March 1467 | Pole | extinct 1487 | |
| Earl of Northumberland | 13 March 1467 | Nevill | resigned 1470 | afterwards created Marquess of Montagu |
| Earl of Pembroke | 8 September 1468 | Herbert | resigned peerage 1479 | afterwards created Earl of Huntingdon |
| Earl of Devon | 17 May 1469 | Stafford | forfeit 1469 | |
| Earl of Wiltshire | 5 January 1470 | Stafford | extinct 1499 | |
| Earl of Huntingdon | 14 August 1471 | Grey | surrendered peerage 1475 | afterwards created Marquess of Dorset |
| Earl of Salisbury | 25 March 1472 | Plantagenet | forfeit 1539 | also Duke of Clarence and Earl of Warwick 1472–1478; forfeit 1478–1485; restored as Earl of Warwick 1493; titles forfeit 1499–1513 |
| Earl of Warwick | 25 March 1472 | Plantagenet | forfeit 1499 | also Duke of Clarence and Earl of Salisbury 1472–1478; forfeit 1478–1493; also Earl of Salisbury 1493–1499 |
| Earl of Winchester | 13 October 1472 | Bruges | forfeit 1499 | |
| Earl of Nottingham | 12 June 1476 | Plantagenet | extinct 1483 | also Duke of York and Duke of Norfolk |
| Earl of Salisbury | 15 February 1478 | Plantagenet | extinct 1484 | also Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall from 1483 |
| Earl of Huntingdon | 14 July 1479 | Herbert | extinct 1491 | previously Earl of Pembroke |
| Earl of March | 18 July 1479 | Plantagenet | merged in crown 1483 | also Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Earl of Pembroke |
| Earl of Pembroke | 18 July 1479 | Plantagenet | merged in crown 1483 | also Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Earl of March |
| Earl of Nottingham | 28 June 1483 | Berkeley | extinct 1491 | created Marquess of Berkeley in 1488 |
| Earl of Surrey | 28 June 1483 | Beaumont, Fitzalan-Howard | extant | forfeit 1485–1489; also Duke of Norfolk 1514–1572; forfeit 1572–1604; also Earl of Arundel from 1604 and Earl of Norfolk from 1644; restored as Duke of Norfolk 1660 |