Polish landed gentry
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polish-landed-gentry-186-984515
title:
Polish landed gentry
text:
Polish landed gentry was a social group or class of hereditary landowners who held manorial estates. Historically, ziemianie consisted of hereditary nobles (szlachta) and landed commoners. The Statutes of Piotrków (1496) restricted the right to hold manorial lordships to hereditary nobility. The non-nobles thus had to either sell their estates to the lords or seek a formal ennoblement for themselves, or had their property taken away. A rare exception was the burgesses of certain specially privil
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Historical social class
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_landed_gentry
date created:
2007-06-14T06:52:12Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T23:33:35Z
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