These families freely intermarried with aristocratic nobility. Samper is a member of the aristocratic, wealthy and influential Samper family. This explains the success of the concert of birds paintings in bourgeois and aristocratic circles. Many of the sons of his aristocratic mistresses entered ecclesiastical careers. Plato belonged to an aristocratic and influential family. Regy was a socialite cultivating many friendships among both aristocratic and successful people. His sister wrote that he felt intimidated by the illustrious and aristocratic company. An elite unit of court sorcerers who are subordinate to the Aristocratic Federation. Eleanor Wodehouse was also of ancient aristocratic ancestry. They were increasingly seen as aristocratic and unsympathetic to democracy. Later, it came to be used primarily in reference to aristocratic or royal animal collections. Dinis is himself the son of an illicit aristocratic affair. He found the experience of aristocratic country-house life agreeable. They would work on the farms of the aristocratic and prominent families. The vast Byzantine bureaucracy had many titles, and varied more than aristocratic and military titles.