Landed nobility or landed aristocracy is a category of nobility in various countries over the history, for which landownership was part of their noble privileges. Their character depends on the country.
In Poland, szlachta were usually landowners, with magnates being the class of the wealthiest szlachta. Middle and smaller landed szlachta was called ziemiaństwo/ziemianie (from the word ziemia, land), usually translated as landed gentry.
In some places, e.g., in Low Countries before Spanish rule, urban nobility with landed estates was distinct from landed nobility. In general, relations between landed nobility and towns was very complex in Europe.
In the Indian Empire, jagirdar and zamindar were the landed aristocracies, which formed Indian feudalism. Sometimes, they were elevated to the status of Princes or Royals owning princely states. Sometimes royals were also reduced to the status of zamindars.In the south, Nairs constituted the Landed Gentry and owned vast amounts of Lands spread out in current day Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
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Why? Because, in the early 19th century, the British nobility who controlled the lands the Mackays, and others, lived on essentially decided it was better used for crofting sheep than subsistence farming.
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... — which was made up of many types of people, including peasants, lawyers, labourers and land workers — paid taxes, from which the First Estate (clergy) and Second Estate (nobility) were mainly exempt.
Furthermore, he also considered the landed nobility to be essentially backward — treating their rural roots as one of the sources of a retrograde militarism, which threatened to drag Britain backwards socially, morally, and politically.
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...Empire in the 9th and 10th centuries when the nobility sought to appropriate land pledged as collateral, and began to use their dependent labor to create their own armies against Constantinople.
