Of the "landed" nobility, some possessed a small patch of land that they tended themselves and lived like peasant families, while the magnates owned dukedom-like networks of estates with several hundred towns and villages and many thousands of subjects.
"Maa"-aadlist omasid mõned väikest maalapikest, mida nad ise hooldasid ja elasid nagu talupojaperekonnad, samas omasid magnaadid hertsogkonnasarnast mõisate võrgustikku koos mitmesaja linna ja külaga ning mitme tuhande alamaga.