landed aristocracy• This alliance of the monarchs with the army and the landed aristocracy lasted into the twentieth century.• Here too wealth and power were concentrated in the hands of the magistracy, the clergy and the landed aristocracy.• The traditional governing class with deep roots in the landed aristocracy was gradually displaced as the ThirdReichconsolidated its position.• They bought their way into the landed aristocracy.• On the one hand they resented the entrenched power of the landed aristocracy.• They expressed the triumph of legalequality and state authority over the privileges of the landed aristocracy.
Originaristocracy
(1400-1500)Frencharistocratie, from Late Latin, from Greekaristokratia, from aristos“best” + -kratia“-cracy”