The temple was used for a funeral of a ruler or a noble person.

Weah calls himself "a noble person," and he means it in every sense.

He was a kind and noble person, and possessed a large fortune.

In other words, any person within the rank stood above noble persons outside this.

Usually these are famous or noble persons from the city who were deified after death.

He was employed to amuse a noble or wealthy person.

In her later suicide note, she referred to Green as "a true friend and noble person."

All those noble persons passed away in course of time.

In Chaucer's story, the most noble person is a knight.

Of course, one person's noble lost cause is another's slaughterhouse over slavery.