But the influence of the great magnates survived this change.

Only the greater magnates could afford to employ officers like this.

He was a great magnate on Firenza, before he moved here.

This was headed by the monarch and the great magnates.

Lothair inherited a kingdom where his great magnates took lands, rights and offices almost without any regard for the king's authority.

This resulted in an oligarchy of the great magnates.

Since the crown and the nobility essentially had the same interests at heart, military commissioning of great magnates was not in itself disruptive to society.

These went, instead, to the younger sons of great territorial magnates, and to successful civil servants.

From the twelfth century abbots were under fire for living like great territorial magnates.

Their position in this respect was little different from that of other great magnates of France.