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In our language it is called with the term of nobility To thatsocial class or estate that has been composed of individuals who have a royal ancestry or who are owners of a noble title that places them in such social position; they are popularly known as nobles.

During the era of hegemony of the European monarchies, before the outbreak of the French Revolution, the nobility knew how to be, together with the clergy, one of the estates with the most privileges and distinctions in front of the always diminished plebs or rest of the population common. For example, they were exempted from paying some taxes, they owned huge portions of land on which they made peasants or slaves work.

The nobility knew how to be one of the great allies of the king, basing that support especially on those benefits that the monarch gave to the nobles in exchange for their permission and support in all those decisions that were taken in political, economic, military terms, among others.

Usually the quality of someone's noble came from the fact of proceeding family of lineage, or failing that as a consequence of having received a royal distinction that made him such.
In the first case, nothing, and nobody, could extinguish that noble quality, and of course, it was inherited from generation in generation, while in the second case, when the person died he became extinct and was not usually transmissible.

It should be noted that at present this social class no longer has the enormous recognition and supremacy that he once knew how to display... Although he still has prerogatives that were "inherited" from those times, his presence Y authority Rather, it has been relegated to a consideration of a social nature, losing that imprint that it was able to hold on a political level.

This question can be clearly observed in the current European monarchies which still enjoy the privileges inherited but had to give up in the practice of eccentric benefits before the social discontent that they produced in the people. The conviction of the people is that they enjoy benefits in every sense, that many members of the nobility do not even work and that it is the people themselves who support them with the payment of their taxes.