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 nobles in Europe and Japan, specifically those of the second rank of the nobility of various European countries, ranking immediately below dukes and above earls or counts. It may also carry its original meaning, denoting counts or earls who held a march, or mark, which is a frontier district.