Lord of the manor
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A lord of the manor, in Anglo-Saxon England and Norman England, is the landholder of a rural estate. The titles date to the English feudal system. The lord enjoyed manorial rights as well as seignory,
Ightham Mote, a 14th-century moated manor house near Sevenoaks, Kent, England
Manor house in Crofton, West Yorkshire
Bayeux Tapestry scene 23 Harold sacramentum fecit Willelmo duci
Reeve and Serfs
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
Lord of the manor
…of the British nobility which is these days predominantly linked to titles of peerage, but the title has historically been associated with the English landed gentry and squirearchy within the context of the class structure of the United Kingdom. The status of lord of the manor is today often associated with the…
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)