Complex sentence: Both the kings and the Transylvanian princes regularly enobled commoners without granting estates to them, although jurisprudence maintained that only those who owned land which was cultivated by pesant tenants could be regarded fully-fledged noblemen.
Split into simpler sentences: Both the kings and the Transylvanian princes regularly enobled commoners without granting estates to them. Jurisprudence, however, maintained that only those who owned land which was cultivated by pesant tenants could be regarded fully-fledged noblemen.