What are you basing that on? The SERIES is the sequence of books, the rest of GRRM books are canon, but they aren't the series.
I'm basing it on being part of the ASOIAF universe. It is a series set with this universe. You can feel that it is not, that is fair enough, but personally the series covers all stuff connected in the same universe.
Nobility isn't mentioned there. The gentry is not always the same as nobility.
More often than not it is. Nobility and Gentry is pretty much one and the same, I'm sure there are outliers, but when someone is referencing the gentry they are meaning the nobility.
Well, unlike Thoros, the fools are listed under the Kings Court and Retainers in the appendix. You just said that makes him nobility. Which is obviously incorrect.
I actually didn't, I gave a whole host of reasons why he nobility. For some reason you wanted to sidestep them all and try and talk about Moon Boy.
Moon Boy and Thoros are of not the same rank. I'm sorry that you don't see that, but they are not. It should be obvious in the reading of the books. I have no idea how you have came to the conclusion that they are.
See, this is probably the issue. I assembling men doesn't make you a noble either. Knights aren't automatically nobility either.
Knights are indeed nobility, whether it be Landed Knights or Hedge Knights both are considered part of the Gentry class, which in GRRM's world is considered part of the Nobility
http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Feudalism
Of course Hedge Knights are not, but Thoros is quite clearly not a Hedge Knight at the start of the series.
Many of them are nobles of course, but hedge knights wouldn't be. Jousting is open to hedge knights and possibly free-riders too, not solely nobility.
At no point in this discussion have I said only nobility compete in Jousting. But it is a common past time of the Nobility and was one of the many reasons, as well as having the patronage of the his King covering his costs, that I gave showing that in GRRM's world Thoros is part of the Westerosi noble.
Where does Ned call him a noble? Sending him doesn't make him a noble.
Again, one of the reasons, not the only reason. So Ned just tasked 3 nobles and one commoner to do the Kings bidding? In a room full of nobles who have sworn fealty to the King he picks a commoner to do his bidding?
Ned told these men to summon men, at their own expense, to keep the Kings peace. Thoros is a Westerosi noble.
I'm sorry that you need the author to have Ned say directly, "Thoros the noble" and stipulate the rank of every single character in the series.
This is probably why you think that Moon Boy and Thoros are of the same rank socially.
Whats lands and titles does he have?
We dont have the specific lands and titles for most of those characters listed. GRRM does not spoon feed information like that. The nobles have titles, titles that are not mentioned whenever the character is mentioned. We only have to look at all the grand titles Manderly has in ADWD to realize this.
"commanding each in the name of king and council to present themselves and swear their fealty to Joffrey."
He, like every other noble on that list, is being told to swear fealty directly to the new King. Commoners and Smallfolk don't get ordered to do that, nobility do.
I assume the reason he was listed was because he was off attacking Lannister men.
It actually had not happened yet. Beric is believed dead in the first battle, so there is no reason that Beric would be summoned to court.
And why is there no mention of the other hundred or so men? To come and swear fealty directly to the King? Because it would be ridiculous, smallfolk don't get ordered to do that.