Assertion: nobility's family | /r/HasProperty | ennobled with title
Facets:
value: in imitation of the english system
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In the last decades of the German Empire, in imitation of the English system, a few families were ennobled with titles that passed on only to the eldest son, the remainder retaining either their father's former title (which he also still carried) or just untitled nobility.