Sofonisba Anguissola was the most successful of these minor aristocrats who first benefited from humanist education and then went on to recognition as painters.

However they had to be given up due to the resistance of local minor aristocrats sympathizing with Venice which was granting them some privileges.

Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich.

The younger son of a minor aristocrat, his family lacked the financial resources to secure him a position suitable to his status in life.

The sugar planters, the grands blancs, were chiefly minor aristocrats.

The last word had a downward inflection; it was clear they were not even minor aristocrats.

Zammit imagined that it was once the home of a minor aristocrat who could no longer stand the harsh winters in Moscow.

He was born a minor British aristocrat.

She was the daughter of a minor German aristocrat who worked as a schoolteacher.

Like many minor aristocrats he had a role at the Royal court.