Newspaupers in the Middle Ages

The Venerable Grouch read recently that a thousand years ago (when he was very young), there were three main classes in most of Europe. The potentes were on top and the impotentes at the bottom. In the middle were the bureaucrats, the mediocres. Does anything change? he wondered. But where did the fourth estate fit in? Reading on he found the answer. There was a fourth class: the pauperes.