The article identifies 'those who fight' as knights. Knights often raised, resourced and commanded their own armies. "As “those who work” (in Latin, laboratore

The article identifies 'those who fight' as knights. Knights often raised, resourced and commanded their own armies. "As “those who work” (in Latin, laboratores), peasants supported people more privileged—“those who pray” (oratores) and “those who fight” (pugnatores). Each of these three orders ideally helped the other, with clergy contributing prayers and knights providing protection, but the mutuality of the system was more ideal than real. Also, the three groups were not equal. A peasant might have benefited from the prayers of a nun or from the protection offered by a knight, but a peasant was deemed to do work of lesser value and to be a less worthy person. Born into this unexalted state, a peasant’s lot was to labor for the benefit of others."