Question

Describe the pattern of land holding in Europe?

Answer 1

while the nobility seldom constituted more than 2 percent of the population in western Europe, it owned approximately 40 to 50 percent of the land in many regions. Most noble land was in fact concentrated in the hands of a small minority of that

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Answer 2

Land ownership was necessary to finance the gentry and the nobility's four major expenses: purchasing crown offices, having girls, fighting litigation and living a gentle lifestyle (as well as displaying).

Explanation:

• Although the aristocracy barely accounted for more than 2 per cent of Western Europe's population, they owned between 40 to 50 per cent of the land in many areas. Indeed, most noble property was concentrated in the hands of a small minority in the region.
• A small yet incredibly rich elite, the aristocracy. It comprised some 150 families by the late eighteenth century, who owned 20 per cent of the land. Yet together the gentry became England's greatest landlords. Gentry landownership increased from 25% to nearly 50% of arable land between 1500 and 1700, at the detriment of both church and state.

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