Gentry
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Gentry are "well-born, genteel and well-bred people" of high social class, especially in the past. Gentry, in its widest connotation, refers to people of good social position connected to landed estat
Cleric, knight, and peasant archetypes represent the virtues of prudence, fortitude, and temperance, respectively. In classical antiquity and Christendom, prudence and fortitude were seen as the cardinal virtues that should govern society.
This part of a 12th-century Swedish tapestry has been interpreted to show, from left to right, the one-eyed Odin, the hammer-wielding Thor and Freyr. This triad corresponds closely to the trifunctional division: Odin is the patron of priests and magicians, Thor of warriors, and Freyr of fertility and farming.
Europe and the Byzantine Empire 1000 AD
The Three Estates of Christendom by Bartholomäus Bruyn c. 1535
Landed gentry
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The landed gentry is a largely historical British and Irish social class of landowners who could live entirely from rental income, or at least owned a country estate. The British element of the wider
Gentry
…entirely through rental income or at least had a country estate; some were gentleman farmers. In the United Kingdom gentry specifically refers to the landed gentry: the majority of the land-owning social class who typically had a coat of arms but did not hold a peerage. The adjective "patrician" ("of or like a…
Mr and Mrs Andrews (c. 1750) by Thomas Gainsborough, a couple from the landed gentry, a marriage alliance between two local landowning families – one gentry, one trade. National Gallery, London.
Typical entry in Burke's Landed Gentry (from Volume 2 of the 1898 edition)
Reeve and Serfs
Bayeux Tapestry scene 23 Harold sacramentum fecit Willelmo duci