noblesse

aateluus

ylhäisö The quality of being noble; nobleness.
c. 1395, (w), ‘The Clerk's Tale’, (w), Ellesmere ms:

I yow took/ out of youre pouere array / And putte yow / in estaat of heigh noblesse.

his moder had discouerd in her pryde / how she had wroughte that by enchauntement / soo that he shold neuer be hole vntyl the best knyghte of the world had serched his woundes /(..)/ And yf I fayle to hele hym here in this land I wylle neuer take more payne vpon me / and that is pyte for he was a good knyghte and of grete noblenes

(rfquotek)

Faire braunch of noblesse, flowre of cheualrie, / That with your worth the world amazed make, / How shall I quite the paines, ye suffer for my sake?