'Lord' and 'lady' derive from 'loaf-hoard' and 'loaf-dig'. So the terms we would later associate with nobility actually referred to whether you were the one who guarded the bread, or the one who kneaded the bread.
By a strange etymological roundabout route, the Christian 'Lord's Prayer' thus involves asking the loaf warden to give you each day your daily bread.
As John Ball put it during the Peasants' Revolt, possibly quoting an older proverb: 'When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?' The point being that nobility was understood to have been a later imposition, not part of the essential nature of things.
Ball also referred to 'the unjust oppression of naughty men'. 'Naughty' was a much more severe condemnation back then. Originally it meant simply 'one who has naught', i.e. a destitute, penniless person, & this changed - through an obvious route - to mean a rogue or wicked person
Similarly, 'villain' was originally 'villein', a tenant farmer legally bonded to a lord, and 'villein' in turn derives from 'person employed on a villa'.

A naughty person was destitute; a villain was a dependent tenant farmer. Not to belabour the point, but there's a theme here.
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