Possible Clues:

• Perhaps most noble and certainly the first
• Member of aristocracy that is good man ahead of all others
• Very first in a sterile manner
• First and most like a noble, could one say?
• Tiles are fixed before anything else
• Most likely bird to get worms?
• Maybe the most noble, but never of late
• Sort of most noble, perhaps, but never of late
• Nearest the start of a time period
• Furthest back in time