The "Pyramid" of Canterbury Pilgrims: Estate Groups of Nobles, Clergy, and Freemen/-women

Nobility (petite) and retinue: Knight, Squire, Yeoman (NT);

High and Mendicant Clergy; Secular Employees of the Clergy: Prioress ("madame Eglentyne"), 2nd Nun, three Priests (? see Exp. Note and Textual Note), and Monk; Friar ("Huberd"); Somnour (bishop's "sheriff"), Pardoner

Free, high-status non-nobles, including guildsmen: Merchant, Clerk, Sergeant of the Lawe (lawyer), Frankeleyn (wealthy landowner); Haberdasshere (hats and handkerchiefs), Carpenter, Webbe (weaver), Dyere, Tapycer (maker of tapestries). and their Cook; Shipman, Doctour of Physik, Wif of Bathe, Persoun (parson), Plowman (NT, the Parson's "brother," maybe a real sib or "good friend" or "comrade"); Reeve (estate overseer), Miller, Maunciple (household purchasing agent) & Chaucer-the-pilgrim.