The High Middle Ages, which this game models, is many things, but it's definitely not a time for social mobility. Wealthy burghers could, starting in the late 1300's, become nobles if the king granted them titles (for extraordinary services, this was rare before the 1500's) or if they got to marry up, which, again, not that uncommon by the 1400's, but very rare before that. Their wealth wasn't, but they all were nobles, paid no taxes and could speak in the House of Lords (or their equivalent in other places). Petty nobles didn't slip down into the ranks of commoners, their nobility was locked into place. There was almost no social mobility during the game's timeframe (the XII-XIVth Centuries is what most peope play). your ability yo bring military power to your "patron", which after the (much debated) "Feudal Revolution" was your "liege lord". What defined being a noble in the year 1000 was not your martial prowess but your martial usefulness, i.e.
The collecion of families known as "nobles" in the Middle Ages was a combionation of elite Roman gentes (many of whom were local pre-Roman elites already, who underwent romanisation) and ruling local or invading clans. I've already explained that this is not entirely true.
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