Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by state or condition]
6. aristocrats
7. nobles (aristocrats)
8. [nobles by gender]
9. noblemen

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to noblemen holding a barony, which is a large estate or a sizable section of a larger territory ruled by a sovereign and often originally awarded for military or other service. It typically refers to members of the European nobility who rank, in modern times, immediately below a viscount or a count in many countries, although the rank and status of a baron varies from country to country and in various historical periods. The term may also be used in its original sense, which in the early Middle Ages designated the tenant who held a tenure of a barony directly from the king, whatever the tenant's rank. It may also be used to refer to noblemen of low rank in Japan. The term may be used in a more general sense to signify a powerful personage or magnate. Barons are always male; female holders of a barony are "baronesses."