Assertion: nobility's title | /r/CapableOf | become hereditary
Facets:
value: in most of italy
type: LOCATION
value: by law
type: OTHER
value: during the fourteenth century
type: TEMPORAL
value: by custom
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: He did try to give titles a landed basis, by laying down as rule that a title, to become hereditary, had to be formally attached to a land endowment called a "majorat", whose contents had to be provided by the title-holder, and whose inheritance followed special rules (to avoid division at each generation).
text: Early viscounts were the equivalent of sherrifs and were therefore appointed by the monarch, however, the title eventually became hereditary.
text: Many titles of nobility eventually became hereditary, by custom if not by law, and within each of the Successor States variations on the initial hierarchy of nobles developed along cultural lines.
text: During the fourteenth century, nobiliary titles became hereditary in most of Italy, usually transmitted by male primogeniture and almost invariably linked to land.