Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth nobility

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth_nobility

GPTKB entity

Statements (58)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	social class
gptkbp:abolished	gptkb:Partitions_of_Poland
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:szlachta
gptkbp:couldElectKing	yes
gptkbp:couldFormConfederations	yes
gptkbp:couldLoseStatusBy	gptkb:crime marrying commoner (rarely enforced)
gptkbp:couldOwnLand	yes
gptkbp:couldRegainStatusBy	adoption by noble family royal ennoblement
gptkbp:existedDuring	1569
gptkbp:existedUntil	1795
gptkbp:existsIn	gptkb:Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth
gptkbp:governedBy	Nobles' democracy
gptkbp:hadLegalPrivileges	yes
gptkbp:hadOwnCourts	yes
gptkbp:hadOwnLegalCode	gptkb:Nihil_novi
gptkbp:hadOwnMilitaryUnits	yes
gptkbp:hadOwnParliamentChamber	Chamber of Deputies (Sejm)
gptkbp:hadRightTo	gptkb:liberum_veto tax exemption personal inviolability bear coat of arms
gptkbp:hereditary	yes
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth nobility
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:Lithuanian_nobility gptkb:Belarusian_nobility Eastern European nobility Ukrainian Cossack elite
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:Golden_Liberty European chivalric traditions
gptkbp:mainLanguage	gptkb:Latin gptkb:Ruthenian Polish
gptkbp:notableFor	gptkb:Sapieha gptkb:Radziwiłł gptkb:Sobieski gptkb:Poniatowski gptkb:Wiśniowiecki gptkb:Czartoryski gptkb:Lubomirski gptkb:Ostrogski gptkb:Potocki gptkb:Zamoyski
gptkbp:notableMembers	gptkb:Jeremi_Wiśniowiecki gptkb:Stanisław_August_Poniatowski gptkb:Adam_Kazimierz_Czartoryski gptkb:Jan_III_Sobieski gptkb:Mikołaj_Radziwiłł gptkb:Stanisław_Lubomirski
gptkbp:population	8-12%
gptkbp:religion	gptkb:Eastern_Orthodoxy gptkb:Islam gptkb:Judaism gptkb:Protestantism gptkb:Roman_Catholicism
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:House_of_Kozak
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7