The Collaborative International Dictionary
douzepere
Doucepere \Douce"pere`\, n. [F. les douze pairs the twelve peers of France, renowned in romantic fiction.] One of the twelve peers of France, companions of Charlemagne in war. [Written also douzepere.] [Obs.]
Big-looking like a doughty doucepere.
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
douzepere
n. (context obsolete English) One of the "twelve peers" of Charlemagne, later associated with the twelve greatest peers of France (namely the archbishop of Rheims, the bishops of Laon, Langres, Beauvais, Chalons and Noyon, the dukes of Normandy, Burgundy and Aquitaine, and the counts of Toulouse, Flanders and Champagne).