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
Gentleman farmer
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In the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, a gentleman farmer is a landowner who owns a farm as part of his estate and who farms as a hobby rather than for profit or sustenance.
Gentry
…coat of arms. The gentry largely consisted of landowners who were supported 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…
West Park Farm, formerly a Gentleman's Farm