Noble

Nobility is a Template:Wiki class which possesses more acknowledged privileges or eminence than members of most other classes in a Template:Wiki, membership therein typically being hereditary. The privileges associated with nobility may constitute substantial advantages over or relative to non-nobles, or may be largely Template:Wiki (e.g. precedence), and vary from country to country and Template:Wiki to Template:Wiki.

Historically membership in the nobility and the prerogatives thereof have been regulated or acknowledged by the government, thereby distinguishing it from other sectors of a nation's upper class. Nonetheless, nobility per se has rarely constituted a closed Caste; acquisition of sufficient Power, Wealth, Template:Wiki prowess or Template:Wiki favour has, occasionally or often, enabled commoners to ascend into the nobility.