安徳および平氏に付き従った貴族は、わずかに時忠・時実・信基・藤原尹明に過ぎなかった。

The only nobles who followed Antoku and the Taira clan were Tokitada, Tokizane, Nobumoto, and FUJIWARA no Koretada. - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

入道は源氏を邸に迎えて手厚くもてなし、かねてより都の貴人と娶わせようと考えていた一人娘（明石の御方）を、この機会に源氏に差し出そうとする。

The Akashi Priest invited Genji to his residence and treated him hospitably, and tried to present his only daughter (Lady Akashi), who he had been thinking of marrying to a nobleman in the capital since long ago, to Genji. - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

髙橋昌明は、1975年の『伊勢平氏の成立と展開』において、彼らが公的には諸衛府の官人、私的には高貴な貴族の「侍」、世間的には一種の傭兵隊長であったことを、資料に基づき詳細に明にした。

"The Establishment and Development of the Ise Taira Clan" (Taira Clan at Ise Province) published in 1975 by Masaaki TAKAHASHI who wrote in detail that they were low to middle class officials of hoefu (a collective name of soldiers in the Imperial Guard) in public, and were private 'samurai' of high class aristocrats and were a type of captain of mercenaries. - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス