The duke, marquis, 90 lesser nobles and thousands of common soldiers were all slain.

Beneath them, lesser nobles had authority over smaller areas of land and fewer people.

They would no longer live as lesser nobles, not that they'd be able to under the current conditions anyway!

Perhaps a dozen lesser nobles were there to see him off.

Within ten years, she had created 17 counts, 46 barons and 428 lesser nobles.

He dismissed the lesser nobles with a brief nod.

I am not as angry with you as some of our lesser nobles.

The lesser nobles would be useless for that even if any of them were in the city, and that left no one at all.

The terror became increasingly arbitrary, hitting out at lesser nobles, merchants and peasants.

United by a common threat, the magnates and lesser nobles eventually crushed the rebels.