Meanings of rich burgher in English

Has he won the friendship of some rich burgher prince at Augsburg, or Strasburg, or Basle?

He must be a rich burgher.

Elsewhere the confederation had developed less admirable customs, and the richer lowlands especially were under the hereditary control of rich burgher families.

At one of these villages Malcolm exchanged his attire as a serving man of a rich burgher for that of a peasant lad.

The rich burghers who ran the city were not amused.

The rich burghers of the cities were succeeding the bishops as patrons of the arts.

The houses of the rich burghers were sadly dilapidated.

Like signiors, and rich burghers of the flood.

Meanwhile, I am going into Holland, to see how those rich burghers spend their time and their money.

It was the rich burghers of the towns, in combination with the smaller nobles, which composed the Protestant party in France.

Small candles were burning by the graves of rich burghers, but otherwise crosses and grave mounds could be seen only indistinctly.

"Humph!" said the rich burgher of Antwerp, with a sulky glance at the stranger.

"And why should this rich burgher commission a couple of soldiers to vandalize the building site of the leper house?" Lechner interrupted.