The estates of the realm, or three estates, were the broad orders of social hierarchy used in Christendom (Christian Europe) from the Middle Ages to early...

Riksdag of the Estates (Swedish: Riksens ständer; informally Swedish: ståndsriksdagen) was the name used for the Estates of Sweden when they were assembled...

meeting of the estates that covered an entire kingdom was called an estates general. The first estate was the clergy, the second the nobility and the third...

The Estates General of 1789 (French: États Généraux de 1789) was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate)...

issues. The derivation of the term arises from the traditional European concept of the three estates of the realm: the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners...

only the obligations of the warrior nobility but the obligations of all three estates of the realm: the nobility, the clergy, and the peasantry, all of whom...

Matthias divided the Crown of Bohemia at the Peace of Olomouc in 1479. The estates of the realm had strengthened their position during the war between both...

of the realm Estates General, a supra-regional gathering of representatives of the estates of the realm Estate in land Estate (land), the grounds and tenancies...

"estates" of the Estates General, France's parliament, and each represented a different class. The First Estate was the clergy, and the Second Estate was...

outlets, and the social media or "social license". The "Fifth" Estate extends the sequence of the three classical Estates of the Realm, nobility, clergy...

of high social class, especially in the past. Gentry, in its widest connotation, refers to people of good social position connected to landed estates...

the first of the four estates of the realm. Before the Finnish War 1808-1809, the Finnish nobility were full members of the Swedish nobility and the Swedish...

The dissolution of the Russian Empire was the disintegration of the Russian Empire (Russia) as a combined effect of the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and...

a parliament of the Tsardom of Russia's estates of the realm active during the 16th and 17th centuries. The assembly represented Russia's feudal classes...

consultative body of the Generalitat of Catalonia during the early modern age. The Estates Estates of the realm Parliament of Scotland This disambiguation page...

constitution. Princes of the Holy Roman Empire List of Imperial Diet participants (1792) List of states in the Holy Roman Empire Estates of the realm Stem duchy...

period the distinction of Roman vs. Germanic subjects had been replaced by the feudal system of the Three Estates of the Realm. Anglo-Norman Germania...

ideal state was one governed by the Christian estates of the realm rather than a constitutional monarchy. In spite of his conservative political philosophy...

integrated into the Kingdom of Sweden, as opposed to the dominions and possessions of, or states in union with, Sweden. Only the estates of the realm of Sweden...

The fifth power is a term, apparently created by Ignacio Ramonet, that intends a continuation of the series of the three estates of the realm and the...

Shōsōin (正倉院) - records names, ages and estates of people including slaves (e.g. 1,119 persons were recorded for the village named Hanyū (半布里) (present day...

under the Ancien Régime, the Estates General (French: États généraux [eta ʒeneʁo]) or States-General was a legislative and consultative assembly of the different...

population. Thus, he asserts, it should replace the other two estates entirely. Estates of the realm Pluralism (political philosophy) Modernism Lembcke...

and Dalmatia with the support of a part of the local population. Both realms retained their autonomous position. The successors of Ladislaus and Coloman—especially...

which reunited the three estates of the realm (clergy, nobility and the third estate) and the États provinciaux (Provincial Estates). The États généraux...

representatives of the wealthy merchants and tradesmen from the most important cities of the kingdom, thus uniting the three Estates of the Realm in one council...

of the realm" – noble, common, and clerical), and in particular the special status of the king. The highest estates, generally those with the most wealth...

had remained intact since the reign of Catherine II. It included Estates-of-the-realm courts for different estates of the realm. Alexander II introduced...

States of Myanmar States of Palau The Estates or the States, a national assembly of the estates of the realm, an early form of legislature that was common throughout...

Curia Regis was a king's summons of the estates of the realm. Although the practical outcome of the Curia Regis of 1188 is still disputed, its charter...