A Summoner was a man who delivered summonses for alleged public sinners to appear at the Archdeacon's ecclesiastical court when accused of public immorality. The job offered opportunities for serious abuse such as bribery, extortion, and especially blackmail of those who went with prostitutes. Source: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/webcore/murphy/canterbury/9summon.pdf
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the Summoner would be grouped under the ecclesiastical middle class. He was not poor, but his power was only so great, and his authority was minimal. As a summoner his job was to summon sinners to trial before a court of the church.
They though of it as what depended on the social structure and the religion
No one they were treated the same way they always had been as second class citizens.
A medieval knight in the middle ages or medieval times was William the conquerer
A person who lived in medieval times.
In medieval times the chain went like this. God The King (God's Representative on Earth) Royalty (The kings family) Nobles Knights Middle class/Specialty workers (Blacksmith, etc.) Landless laborers (Farmers) Slaves