I have done a little research on this, and it seems no one knows exactly what part of the country was owned by the Church, but the estimates I am seeing range from 25% to 35% all the land. These numbers are based on income from the land.
Selling off the property of the Catholic Church and Noble emigres.
The Plantations.
The Catholic Church was the richest institution in the country and the largest land owner.
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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.
Before the French Revolution in 1789, the Catholic Church owned approximately 10% of the land in France. This vast amount of land included not only church buildings and properties but also agricultural land and other assets. The confiscation of church lands was a significant part of the revolutionary reforms, as they aimed to reduce the power of the Church and redistribute land to the populace.
The Catholic Church owned the most land and controlled education in Latin America during the colonial period.
Selling off the property of the Catholic Church and Noble emigres.
The Plantations.
They sold off amounts of the Catholic Church which owned 10% of the land in France.
During the colonial period, the majority of land in Latin America was owned by a small elite group of Spanish and Portuguese settlers, as well as the Catholic Church. Education was controlled by the colonial authorities and the Catholic Church, where education was often limited to elites and focused on religious instruction and maintaining social order.
I have read that about a third of the property in England was owned by the Church in the Middle Ages. It is hard to find a source for this, but the article on the Dissolution of the Monasteries (link below) says monastic lands were 16% of the country. Since there were many other lands belonging to the Church as well, a total of 33% might be believable.
The Catholic Church was the richest institution in the country and the largest land owner.
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