 Socially, there was a distinction between the "greater" ministerials and the "lesser" ones in the order of precedence.Greater ministerials maintained their own subordinate "milites", or armigerous soldiery.These could be either free knights (such as Werner of Bolland, who maintained 1,100 subordinate knights for Frederick Barbarossa) or lesser ministerials like the wealthy widow Diemut von Högl, who held four castles with ministerial chaplain, chamberlain and seneschal.