It gained notoriety as the center of large estates worked by peasants and dominated by a few magnate families.

Among the notable early patrons of the custom was the magnate family of Potoccy.

From 1774 he worked for the magnate family of Czartoryski and became their court artist and tutor for the children.

Sven Aggesen was born into a magnate family which had several well-known members.

As the Empire's military position recovered from the 9th century on, these lands became profitable again, and major provincial magnate families began to appear.

All that happened was that individual kings and individual magnates or magnate families sometimes came into collision.

His family was a renowned magnate family from Pomerania, with long traditions of military service.

He also actively opposed the influence of another magnate family, the Radziwiłłs.

In 1725 the palace was bought by yet another magnate family, the Zamoyski, who made it a seat of their jurydyka.

The Tarnowski family was one of the oldest and most powerful magnate families in Poland.