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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="Agnate" class="mw-redirect" title="Agnate">Agnate</a>.</div>
<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Magnat" redirects here. For a wealthy or powerful business baron or executive, see <a href="Business_magnate" title="Business magnate">Business magnate</a>. For other uses, see <a href="Magnat_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Magnat (disambiguation)">Magnat (disambiguation)</a>.</div>
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<p>A <b>magnate</b><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a man from the higher nobility, a man who belongs to the high office-holders, or a man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or other qualities in <a href="Western_Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Christian">Western Christian</a> countries since the medieval period. It also includes the members of the higher clergy, such as <a href="Bishop" title="Bishop">bishops</a>, <a href="Archbishop" title="Archbishop">archbishops</a> and <a href="Cardinal_(Catholic_Church)" title="Cardinal (Catholic Church)">cardinals</a>. In reference to the <a href="Medieval" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval">medieval</a>, the term is often used to distinguish higher territorial <a href="Landowner" class="mw-redirect" title="Landowner">landowners</a> and <a href="Warlord" title="Warlord">warlords</a>, such as <a href="Count" title="Count">counts</a>, <a href="Earl" title="Earl">earls</a>, <a href="Duke" title="Duke">dukes</a>, and territorial-<a href="Prince" title="Prince">princes</a> from the <a href="Baronage" title="Baronage">baronage</a>. In Poland the <i><a href="Szlachta" title="Szlachta">szlachta</a></i> (nobles) constituted one of the largest proportions of the population (around 10-12%) and 'magnat' refers to the richest nobles, or nobles of the nobility - even though they had equal voting rights in Poland's electoral monarchy.
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<p>In <a href="Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">England</a>, the magnate class went through a change in the later Middle Ages. It had previously consisted of all <a href="Tenants-in-chief" class="mw-redirect" title="Tenants-in-chief">tenants-in-chief</a> of the crown, a group of more than a hundred families. The emergence of <a href="English_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="English Parliament">Parliament</a> led to the establishment of a parliamentary peerage that received personal summons, rarely more than sixty families.<sup id="cite_ref-ChrimesRoss1972_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ChrimesRoss1972-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A similar class in the <a href="Gaels" title="Gaels">Gaelic</a> world were the <a href="Flatha" class="mw-redirect" title="Flatha">Flatha</a>. In the Middle Ages, a <a href="Bishop" title="Bishop">bishop</a> sometimes held territory as a magnate, collecting the revenue of the <a href="Manorialism" title="Manorialism">manors</a> and the associated <a href="Knight's_fee" title="Knight's fee">knights' fees</a>.
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<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Magnates_of_Poland_and_Lithuania" title="Magnates of Poland and Lithuania">Magnates of Poland and Lithuania</a></div>
<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="Transportation_and_travel_during_the_Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth" title="Transportation and travel during the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth">Transportation and travel during the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth</a></div>
<p>Magnates were a <a href="Social_class" title="Social class">social class</a> of wealthy and influential <a href="Nobility" title="Nobility">nobility</a> in the <a href="Crown_of_the_Kingdom_of_Poland" title="Crown of the Kingdom of Poland">Crown of the Kingdom of Poland</a> and <a href="Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania" title="Grand Duchy of Lithuania">Grand Duchy of Lithuania</a>, and later the <a href="Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth" title="Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth">Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth</a>.
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<p><i><a href="Velika%C5%A1" title="Velikaš">Velikaš</a></i> is the Serbo-Croatian word for 'magnate', derived from veliko ('great, large, grand'). It was used to refer to the highest nobility of Serbia in the Middle Ages and Croatia in the Middle Ages.
</p><p>In Spain, since the late Middle Ages, the highest class of nobility hold the appellation of <a href="Grandee_of_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Grandee of Spain">Grandee of Spain</a> and was known earlier as <a href="Ricohombre" title="Ricohombre">ricohombres</a>.
</p><p>In Sweden, the wealthiest medieval lords were known as <i>storman</i> (plural <i>stormän</i>), "great men", a similar description and meaning as the English term magnate, see "<a href="Swedish_nobility" title="Swedish nobility">Swedish nobility</a>" for more.
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<ul><li><a href="Aristocracy" title="Aristocracy">Aristocracy</a></li>
<li><a href="Boyar" title="Boyar">Boyar</a>, in Eastern Europe</li>
<li><a href="Daimyo" title="Daimyo">Daimyo</a>, powerful landlords in feudal Japan</li>
<li><a href="Magnat_(film)" title="Magnat (film)"><i>Magnat</i> (film)</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">from the <a href="Late_Latin" title="Late Latin">late Latin</a> <i>magnas</i>, a great man, itself from <a href="Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> <i>magnus</i>, "great"</span>
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<ul><li>This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <cite id="CITEREFChisholm1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. (1911). "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Magnate" class="extiw external" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Magnate">Magnate</a>". <i><a href="Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i> (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.</cite></li></ul>
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<li><a href="Luxury_goods" title="Luxury goods">Luxury goods</a>
<ul><li><a href="Veblen_good" title="Veblen good">Veblen goods</a>
<ul><li><a href="Conspicuous_consumption" title="Conspicuous consumption">Conspicuous consumption</a></li>
<li><a href="Conspicuous_leisure" title="Conspicuous leisure">Conspicuous leisure</a>
<ul><li><a href="Luxury_beliefs" class="mw-redirect" title="Luxury beliefs">Luxury beliefs</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">People</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Billionaire" title="Billionaire">Billionaire</a></li>
<li><a href="Captain_of_industry" title="Captain of industry">Captain of industry</a></li>
<li><a href="High-net-worth_individual" title="High-net-worth individual">High-net-worth individual</a></li>
<li>
<ul><li><a href="Business_magnate" title="Business magnate">Business</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Millionaire" title="Millionaire">Millionaire</a></li>
<li><a href="Oligarchy" title="Oligarchy">Oligarch</a>
<ul><li><a href="Business_oligarch" title="Business oligarch">Business</a></li>
<li><a href="Russian_oligarchs" title="Russian oligarchs">Russian</a></li>
<li><a href="Ukrainian_oligarchs" title="Ukrainian oligarchs">Ukrainian</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Robber_baron_(industrialist)" title="Robber baron (industrialist)">Robber baron</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Wealth" title="Wealth">Wealth</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Wealth_concentration" class="mw-redirect" title="Wealth concentration">Concentration</a></li>
<li><a href="Distribution_of_wealth" title="Distribution of wealth">Distribution</a></li>
<li><a href="Wealth_effect" title="Wealth effect">Effect</a></li>
<li><a href="Geography_and_wealth" title="Geography and wealth">Geography</a></li>
<li><a href="Inheritance" title="Inheritance">Inheritance</a>
<ul><li><a href="Dynastic_wealth" class="mw-redirect" title="Dynastic wealth">Dynastic</a></li>
<li><a href="Estate_planning" title="Estate planning">Estate planning</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Wealth_management" title="Wealth management">Management</a></li>
<li><a href="National_wealth" class="mw-redirect" title="National wealth">National</a></li>
<li><a href="Paper_wealth" title="Paper wealth">Paper</a></li>
<li><a href="Wealth_and_religion" title="Wealth and religion">Religion</a></li>
<li><a href="Wealth_tax" title="Wealth tax">Tax</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Lists_of_people_by_net_worth" title="Lists of people by net worth">People</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="The_World's_Billionaires" title="The World's Billionaires"><i>Forbes</i> list of billionaires</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_centibillionaires" title="List of centibillionaires">List of centibillionaires</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_female_billionaires" title="List of female billionaires">Female billionaires</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_royalty_by_net_worth" title="List of royalty by net worth">Richest royals</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_richest_Americans_in_history" title="List of richest Americans in history">Wealthiest Americans</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_wealthiest_families" title="List of wealthiest families">Wealthiest families</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Organizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="List_of_largest_companies_by_revenue" title="List of largest companies by revenue">Largest companies by revenue</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_largest_corporate_profits_and_losses" title="List of largest corporate profits and losses">Largest corporate profits and losses</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_public_corporations_by_market_capitalization" title="List of public corporations by market capitalization">Largest corporations by market capitalization</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_largest_financial_services_companies_by_revenue" title="List of largest financial services companies by revenue">Largest financial services companies by revenue</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_largest_manufacturing_companies_by_revenue" title="List of largest manufacturing companies by revenue">Largest manufacturing companies by revenue</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_the_largest_software_companies" title="List of the largest software companies">Largest software companies by revenue</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_largest_technology_companies_by_revenue" title="List of largest technology companies by revenue">Largest technology companies by revenue</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_wealthiest_religious_organizations" title="List of wealthiest religious organizations">Religious organizations</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_wealthiest_charitable_foundations" title="List of wealthiest charitable foundations">Charities</a>
<ul><li><a href="List_of_philanthropists" title="List of philanthropists">Philanthropists</a></li></ul></li>
<li>Universities
<ul><li><a href="Lists_of_institutions_of_higher_education_by_endowment_size" title="Lists of institutions of higher education by endowment size">Endowment size</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_universities_by_number_of_billionaire_alumni" title="List of universities by number of billionaire alumni">Number of billionaire alumni</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="List_of_cities_by_number_of_billionaires" title="List of cities by number of billionaires">Cities by number of billionaires</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_countries_by_the_number_of_billionaires" class="mw-redirect" title="List of countries by the number of billionaires">Countries by number of billionaires</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_countries_by_total_wealth" class="mw-redirect" title="List of countries by total wealth">Countries by total wealth</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_sovereign_states_by_wealth_inequality" title="List of sovereign states by wealth inequality">Countries by wealth inequality</a></li>
<li><a href="Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States" title="Wealth inequality in the United States">Wealth inequality in the United States</a></li>
<li><a href="Income_inequality_in_the_United_States" title="Income inequality in the United States">Income inequality in the United States</a></li>
<li><a href="Lists_of_most_expensive_items_by_category" title="Lists of most expensive items by category">Most expensive items</a>
<ul><li>by category</li></ul></li>
<li><a href="List_of_wealthiest_animals" title="List of wealthiest animals">Wealthiest animals</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Diseases_of_affluence" title="Diseases of affluence">Diseases of affluence</a>
<ul><li><a href="Affluenza" title="Affluenza">Affluenza</a></li>
<li><a href="Narcissism#Celebrity_narcissism" title="Narcissism">Acquired situational narcissism</a></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="Argumentum_ad_crumenam" title="Argumentum ad crumenam">Argumentum ad crumenam</a></i></li>
<li><a href="Prosperity_theology" title="Prosperity theology">Prosperity theology</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Philanthropy" title="Philanthropy">Philanthropy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="The_Gospel_of_Wealth" title="The Gospel of Wealth">Gospel of Wealth</a></li>
<li><a href="The_Giving_Pledge" title="The Giving Pledge">The Giving Pledge</a></li>
<li><a href="Philanthrocapitalism" title="Philanthrocapitalism">Philanthrocapitalism</a></li>
<li><a href="Venture_philanthropy" title="Venture philanthropy">Venture philanthropy</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sayings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="The_rich_get_richer_and_the_poor_get_poorer" title="The rich get richer and the poor get poorer">The rich get richer and the poor get poorer</a></li>
<li><a href="Socialism_for_the_rich_and_capitalism_for_the_poor" title="Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor">Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor</a></li>
<li><a href="Too_big_to_fail" title="Too big to fail">Too big to fail</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Media</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="Das_Kapital" title="Das Kapital">Das Kapital</a></i></li>
<li><a href="Plutus_(play)" title="Plutus (play)"><i>Plutus</i></a>
<ul><li><a href="Plutus" title="Plutus">Greek god of wealth</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Superclass_(book)" title="Superclass (book)"><i>Superclass</i></a>
<ul><li><a href="The_Superclass_List" title="The Superclass List">List</a></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Class" title="The Theory of the Leisure Class">The Theory of the Leisure Class</a></i></li>
<li><a href="Wealth_(film)" title="Wealth (film)"><i>Wealth</i></a></li>
<li><i><a href="The_Wealth_of_Nations" title="The Wealth of Nations">The Wealth of Nations</a></i></li></ul>
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<ul><li>Category
<ul><li>by country</li></ul></li></ul>
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