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I think we cannot know whether there were more mercenaries than noblemen in the Middle Ages. Certainly, wars employed large numbers of both, though probably more of the mercenaries, and both were around in peacetime, though probably many more of the nobility.
There is a problem with answering the question, because it assumes a soldier went to battle either for duty or for money, and that the distinction can easily be drawn, but that is not the case. In some wars, the knights were largely made up of vassals of the kings of both sides. On the other hand, there were reasons for a soldier to go to war that hand nothing to do with either duty or money. Many squires and young knights went into combat just for the experience and a desire to prove their worth, and so were drawn into wars that had nothing to do with duty, but where they could not earn much as mercenaries because they had no experience.
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