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At the top were the nobility, which included the knights and had a hierarchy within it.

Below them were the freemen, which were the middle class.

Below them were serfs and villeins, who were not slaves, but also not quite free.

A fourth group, the clergy, was quite apart and had a separate hierarchy of its own, though bishops were considered lords for many purposes, and clergy were considered commoners.

There is a different four part hierarchy that is recorded in medieval Scottish law, consisting of nobility, freemen, serfs, and slaves. The slaves disappeared from Scotland during the High Middle Ages, however.

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