The personal bodyguard protected the king or high ranking nobles or generals in the field.

As a result, the Lithuanian-speaking culture did not expand among the highest nobles.

The surrounding town consisted of suburbs, inhabited by merchants, clergy and the higher nobles.

The higher nobles were still able to judge the less powerful lords themselves.

Two high nobles raised her up and supported her upon her feet until she returned to consciousness.

Many of Norway's highest nobles for the next three centuries would be descended from him.

Only a few Finnish families can be seen as recognized high nobles.

Then came all the highest nobles of his court and those noblemen who had arrived with the foreign delegations.

The disputes among the higher nobles went unsolved, and the march to Jerusalem was delayed for months.

By the 12th or 13th centuries, the wiec institution likewise limited its participation to high ranking nobles and officials.