| As the Venetian patriciate developed new strategies for collective self-definition, so too did the doges. |
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| Here the rural areas too were in the hands of the towns and the patriciate ruled unchallenged. |
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| No emulation of aristocratic practices is more obvious than the commissioning of portraits by the urban patriciate in Bruges. |
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| Finally, the crisis with the Gracchus brothers revealed the weakness of the patriciate and of the constitution. |
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| As defeatism spread from meetings and rallies into the social clubs of the wealthy and renowned, the Unionist patriciate expressed dismay. |
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| Before the plague of 1576, Venice's population had risen to 180,000, with a patriciate of under 5 percent. |
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| The dignity of office was in turn applied to the class that provided office-holders, to the point of creating an urban patriciate, a separate estate. |
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| The castle became the administrative centre for the bailliage of Vevey and the permanent residence of the bailiff, a member of the Bernese patriciate. |
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| Allying himself with the new king of Hungary, Charles I, Władysław withstood the enmity of Bohemia, the Teutonic Knights, rival Polish dukes, and the mainly German patriciate of Kraków. |
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| As in Naples, the nobility of the robe, who in Milan were lawyers drawn from the urban patriciate, grew at the expense of the old landed nobility and formed an essential alliance with the Spanish crown. |
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| In June of that year Salvestro de' Medici, in an attempt to preserve his own power in government, stirred up the lower orders to attack the houses of his enemies among the patriciate. |
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| The restoration of power to the patriciate was only temporary. |
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