| It doesn’t exist as a term, but I always thought “enduked” would have been a nice term for this process. Instead it’s the more wordy “created a duke”, since his status was both created and granted to him. The title “Duke of Wellington” was expressly created for him. Fun fact, he should have been “Duke of Wellesley”, but his elder brother, Richard Wellesley, had already been made Marquess Wellesley. Since the peerage from Viscount to Marquess to Duke would ended up with two brothers potentially sharing the same title, they chose to give Arthur the title Viscount Wellington, from the town where the family heritage was connected to. Therefore his title peerage line: Viscount Wellington -> Earl of Wellington -> Marquess of Wellington -> Duke of Wellington He was also technically a Baron before Viscount but he received that peerage the same day as his Viscount title. Outside British peerage he held some other cool honors and titles. As well as being the Prince of Waterloo in Belgium the the Netherlands, he was granted the honor of “Knight of the Golden Fleece” in Spain, “Knight of the Black Eagle” in Prussia, and my personal favorite was “Knight of the Elephant” in Denmark. In the UK we have lots of reminders of him namely because of the large number of pubs called “The Duke of Wellington”. |