Math Is Good
"Rivalry and personal vanity should have no place among you, but you should humbly reckon others better than yourselves. You must look to each other's interest and not merely to your own"
- Paul of Tarsus
The 'Champion Mauro' gloriously saved a town from the Ottomans, earning him both a prestigious title but also a piece of land. When Constantine, who is now lying on a cart, heard about Mauro's brave deeds, granted this piece of land to him, and so now Mauro, like Giovanni, is officially a noble man. This instantly changed Mauro's social statues from a mercenary that every one despises to a nobility. Now the offspring of Mauro can proudly declare themselves carrying the blood lines of a noble even when they are at their poorest moments.
It would take centuries before the idea of nobility becomes a thing only observable in history and achieve a total equality between every men and women.