How did the barons become barons?

In most societies, you would have to be born into a certain family to become a baron. So, really, you would have to inherit it. You couldn't just become a baron.

because they wanted it to they thought it was special lien sike that ain't right

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Baron. A Baron is a rank of nobility, originally a tenant holding land directly from the monarch.

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