Gentry facts for kids

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.

Related pages

• Aristocracy
• Feudalism
• Manorialism
• Nobility

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

Images for kids

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  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.

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  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.

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  Europe and the Byzantine Empire 1000 CE

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  George Washington

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

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  Matsue daimyō (c. 1850s)

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  Group of Seonbi "virtuous scholar" in Korea that followed confucian precepts) (c. 18th century)

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  Hungarian nobles, circa 1831

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  A knight being armed.

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  A page from Brathwait's book that displays the qualities associated with being a gentleman

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  An example of an Elizabethan pedigree of the de Euro family of Northumberland, barons of Warkworth and Clavering. Scrivened, circa 1570 to 1588

See also

In Spanish: Gentry para niños