Assertion: nobility's title | /r/HasProperty | needed
Facets:
value: until around 1300
type: TEMPORAL
value: as indications of high birth
type: CAUSE
value: hardly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: During the existence of the Empire of Brazil, 1,211 noble titles were acknowledged.[citation needed]
text: Until around 1300, titles of nobility were hardly necessary as indications of high birth because aristocrats bore surnames, while the common people were known only by given names.