A magnate was a man from the higher nobility, a man who belonged to the high office-holders, or a man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or other qualities in Western Christian countries sinc
Jan Zamoyski, an important 16th-century Polish magnate
Aristocracy is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocrats.
Magnate
…were known as storman (plural stormän), "great men", a similar description and meaning as the English term magnate, see "Swedish nobility" for more. Aristocracy Boyar, in Eastern Europe…
The 6th Duke of Norfolk, a 17th-century English aristocrat and politician who held the hereditary office of Earl Marshal of England