These were made up of a corporative base of 18 aristocratic landowners, 12 urban property owners and nine representatives from among the peasants.

Powerful aristocratic landowners offered shelter to displaced peasants, using their increased authority to reclaim privileges abolished during the Qin and Han.

The chief targets of the patarini were the rich, saecular, aristocratic landowners and the simoniacal and nicolaitan clergy.

The real power lay outside the House of Commons, in the hands of a few rich magnates and aristocratic landowners.

Levin is a passionate, restless, but shy aristocratic landowner who, unlike his Moscow friends, chooses to live in the country on his large estate.

The aristocratic landowners invited companies to tender for the development rights.

Lady Runcie-Campbell, the aristocratic landowner, dislikes having the two brothers on the estate, and tries to avoid communicating with them.

The last local aristocratic landowner was forced to leave the estate following the sweeping confiscations of land enacted during the Estonian land reform of 1919.

By the end of this era, the divide between the aristocratic landowners and the landless and small-holder Plebeians had deepened and widened.

The impetus to establish the society came from the aristocratic landowners of Piedmont who provided its leadership.