Assertion: nobility's title | /r/HasProperty | come toward the end of the 13th century
Facets:
value: to mean
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: In 12th-century France the term baron, in a restricted sense, was applied properly to all lords possessing an important fief, but toward the end of the 13th century the title had come to mean that its bearer held his principal fief direct from the crown and was therefore more important than a count, since many counts were only mediate vassals.