Gentry

Gentry means “well-born people”. The word comes from the latin word gentis which means “clan” or “extended family”. In England, gentry is the social class below the aristocracy. It gets its income from large landholdings.

Gentry Media

• Cleric-Knight-Workman.jpg

  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.

• Three kings or three gods.jpg

  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.

• Organisation féodale.svg

  The feudal social structure in three orders: those who pray (oratores), fight (bellatores) and work (laboratores)

• Europe 1000.jpg

  Europe and the Byzantine Empire 1000 AD

• Washington 1787-1790.jpg

  Washington

• Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.JPG

  Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, in Virginia, was the seat of his plantation.

• Buckingham Palace ILN 1842.jpg

  BuckinghamPalaceILN

• Neale(1825) p2.244 - Carton House, Kildare.jpg

  Carton House castle of Fitzgeralds

• First Entrance Gate of the Temple of Confucius, Ching-hai.jpg

  First Entrance Gate of the Temple of Confucius Ching-hai

Related pages

• Aristocracy
• Feudalism
• Manorialism
• Nobility

References

• Peter Coss, The Origins of the English Gentry. Past and Present Publications. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (2003). ISBN 052182673X