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. noblewomen

Anotations

Scope note:

Noblewomen in Europe and Japan, specifically those of the second rank of the nobility of various European countries, or the wives or widows of marquises, ranking immediately below duchesses and above countesses.