The king.
3rd estate owned land 70% during french revolution
Because religion was so important during the Middle Ages, most people owned Bibles.
The Catholic Church owned the most land and controlled education in Latin America during the colonial period.
During the Old Regime, the first (clergy) and second (nobility) estates owned most of the land even though they represented 3% of the total population of France.
90% of the population were serfs. They grew the crops, fought the nobility's wars, died by the thousands in war, disease, and accidents.
In most of Europe, most of the land was controlled by the monarchs and the nobility. A lot of land was controlled by the Church, and I have read that in England the amount was upwards of 30%, an amount I find very easy to believe. In central Italy, the land was nearly all controlled by the Church.
The group of people that owned most ofthe land in Etruria was wealthy families!
The Holy Roman Empire.
The landed aristocracy.
A Franklin was a freeman who owned land, but was not of noble birth. So not a noble, but not a serf, this is the origin of the term 'middle class'. Most franklins were farmers.
3rd estate
Saudi Arabia has most land mass of Middle East countries.