The phenomenon of nobility is a concept and reality of the middle ages. The nobility in that age was a dominant group in the society, in the west as well as in the east. The institution of nobility essentially possessed (a legality of it's own which provided with a superior status in the sociopolitical situation. Thus, the nobility, though a social group, was nevertheless interminably connected and based upon the edifice of politic s and the state, The legality of the position of the nobility was essentially and basically hereditary. It was also essential that the nobility should be a restricted and constricted body. In other words, the nobility denoted a privilege d section of the society which was naturally small in circumference. It enjoyed social interests and privileges, while the theory and practicality of hereditary succession was
provided to it by the stat e and through the state