Sir Rhys ap Thomas (1449–1525), knight banneret and Knight of the Garter. A knight banneret, sometimes known simply as banneret, was a medieval knight ("a commoner of rank") who led a company of troops during time of war under his own banner (which was square-shaped, in contrast to the tapering standard or the pennon flown by the lower-ranking knights) and was eligible to bear supporters in English heraldry. The military rank of a knight banneret was higher than a knight bachelor (who fought under another's banner), but lower than an earl or duke; the word derives from the French banneret, from bannire, banner, elliptical for seigneur banneret or chevalier banneret, Medieval Latin banneretus. Under English custom the rank of knight banneret could only be conferred by the sovereign on the field of battle.
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The Maison du Banneret Wisard in Grandval The Maison De La Dîme and the Maison du Banneret Wisard are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.
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Many now believe that Douglas was made a knight banneret.Ronald McNair Scott, Robert the Bruce, King of Scots, Peter Bedrick Books, New York, 1989, p 157. The knight banneret was established under Edward I. A knight banneret held no command responsibilities so much as greater honours. A knight banneret fought under his own banner unlike a knight bachelor who was limited to a pennon.
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W. C. Metcalfe, A Book of Knights Banneret, Knights of the Bath, and Knights Bachelor, etc (Mitchell and Hughes, London 1885), p. 118.
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A knight fighting under another's banner was called a knight bachelor while a knight fighting under his own banner was a knight banneret.
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Whether any appointments as knight banneret were formally made after the Act of Union 1707 is debated by historians and there is no general agreement.
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Listed here are those dubbed knight banneret in England. Under English custom the rank of knight banneret could only be conferred by the sovereign on the field of battle. There were some technical exceptions to this; when his standard was on the field of battle he could be regarded as physically present though he was not. His proxy could be regarded as a sufficient substitution for his presence.
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50 et seq) Sir Edward Denny (1547 – 12 February 1600), Knight Banneret, of Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire, was a soldier, privateer and adventurer during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
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Knights banneret were also granted non- hereditary supporters, but no such knight has been created since the time of Charles I. Supporters may also be granted to corporations which have a royal charter.
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Around forty-five English soldiers were knighted by the Earl of Surrey after the battle.Metcalfe, Walter Charles, ed., Book of Knights Banneret, Knights of the Bath et., IV Henry VI to 1660, London (1885), pp.
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As Chief of Staff to Edward, the Black Prince, he designed the strategy that won victory at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356. In 1360, Chandos was created a knight banneret, which allowed him to hold a banner in battle. This came being made the Viscount of Saint-Sauveur by Edward III. This is contrary to the Life of the Black Prince, written by the Herald of John Chandos which suggested that Chandos was made a banneret immediately before the Battle of Najera in 1367.
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He was in Brittany in October 1484, and in August 1485 landed with Richmond at Milford Haven. He was at once made a knight banneret, and in the same year was sworn of the Privy Council.
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In 1308, a new campaign was sent to quell King Robert, and Courtenay was made a knight banneret, one of the King's elite household.M.Powicke, The General Obligation to Cavalry Service, Speculum, vol.28, no.4, (1953) pp.
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After the death of Schultheiss Nägeli in 1579 the castle went to the Knight banneret Ludwig Brüggler who had married Nägeli's second daughter. After the death of Brüggler in 1598, it was bought by Knight banneret Niklaus Kilchberg who gave it to his son, also named Niklaus. It remained with the Kilchberg family until 1727 when it was sold to Marc Elie de Chemilleret of Biel for 15,000 pounds. In 1743 it went to Gabriel von Wattenwyl who was the nephew of Marc Elie's second wife, Magdalena von Watteville.
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Samuel Johnson, Walter Jackson Bale, Basic Books, 1998Theophilus Levett was also descended from the Aston family of Tixall. In his Lichfield home was a portrait of Sir Edward Aston inscribed 'Sir Edward Aston, knight banneret, Anno Domini 1573.
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Ultimately bannerets obtained a place in the feudal hierarchy between barons and knights bachelor, which has given rise to the idea that they are the origin of King James I's order of the baronet. John Selden, indeed, points out that the "old stories" often have baronetti for bannereti, and he points out that in France the title had become hereditary; but Selden is careful to say that "banneret hath no relation to this later title [of baronet]". The title of knight banneret, with the right to display the private banner, came to be granted for distinguished service in the field. No knight banneret, says Selden, of the English custom: The creation of bannerets is traceable, according to Selden, to the time of Edward I. "Under these bannerets, diverse knights bachelor and esquires usually served; and according to the number of them, the bannerets received wages".
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During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms the Mackinnons followed the Marquess of Montrose, and took part in the Battle of Inverlochy on 2 February 1645. The chief of Clan Mackinnon, Lauchlan Mackinnon, raised a regiment in aid of Charles II, and was present at the Battle of Worcester. It is said that he was made a Knight Banneret at this battle, though this is thought improbable as such a custom was by then very much obsolete. (A knight banneret was created by a sovereign on the field of battle and could lead vassals under his own banner).
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Marshal of the Army of God and the Holy Church Robert fitzWalter Baron of Little Dunmow, Constable of Baynard's Castle, Castellain and Chief Banneret of the City of London, member of the Security Council of the Barons as enshrined in Magna Carta.
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Four thousand delegates participated at the event at Håkons Hall.Liland & Iversen (2010): 66 The union launched its web site on 19 February 1996.Liland & Iversen (2010): 76 Banneret was reorganized in 2004 and changed from a weekly newspaper to a monthly magazine.
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Although he was too ill to attend meetings, the appointment shows her confidence in her uncle. Parr was knighted by King Henry VIII after the siege of Tournai in October 1513.Metcalfe, Walter Charles, ed., Book of Knights Banneret, Knights of the Bath etc.
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John Clavell's uncle was Sir William Clavell (1568–1643). He was a knight banneret and gained this title in 1599. He was active in commercial and industrial ventures, and was John Clavell's connection to Ireland, where Clavell spent part of his life.Pafford, "An Early Falstaff Echo?" p. 9.
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Sir John Smith of Skilts (1616–1644) was an Englishman who supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He is best known for recapturing the Royal Standard at the Battle of Edgehill, a deed for which he was made a banneret by King Charles I on the field of battle.
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Stow says when Berwick Castle was delivered to Stanley, Sir Thomas Molyneux of Haughton was knighted there as a banneret. Among the burnt places mentioned by Edward Hall, "Hooton" and "Heton Hall" must be the Hatton-Field, "Hoton feld besyde Berwyke" where Gloucester is said to have knighted Sir Ralph Assheton of Middleton as a banneret, and knighted Thomas, Lord Scrope of Masham and 26 others. These knights were made on 22 August, about the time of the surrender of Berwick Castle, and so Richard seems to have travelled back from Newcastle. The Earl of Northumberland is said to have knighted 18 men at the "mayne of Sefford,"Cessford in the Scottish Middle-march, during a previous campaign, on 22 August 1480, or at the same time.
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A grand total of 70 knights and bannerets including Molyneux and Edward Stanley were made on 24 August which seems to mark the end of hostilities.Burke, A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies, (1844) p.20 Assheton, 360 Molyneux: Metcalfe, Walter Charles, A book of Knights Banneret etc.,, London (1885), p.
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During this period it was ruled by an eighteen-member council and a twelve-member council, which was led by a knight banneret. There were four judicial courts over the town and the surrounding villages; the courts of Letry and Savigny, the court of the castellan and the court of the Lords of Corsier.
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McKisack (1959), p. 256. On the Roxburgh campaign he brought a retinue of twenty-eight men-at-arms and twelve mounted archers. In Brittany in 1342, the retinue had grown to forty men-at- arms, one banneret, nine knights, twenty-nine esquires, and thirty mounted archers. His retinue was of a diverse composition, and also included foreign mercenaries.
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Amongst the nobles was the Earl of Lincoln and 26 banneret knights. During the siege of Bayonne the English ran out of money, so the army melted into the countryside. Broken-hearted, the warrior-prince Edmund Crouchback died on 5 June. His body was carried to England and was interred on 15 July 1296 at Westminster Abbey, London.
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On 19 August 1843 James Bombrain, Inspector-General of Coast Guard in Ireland (knighted by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, on board a cruiser in Kingstown Harbour, after an inspection of the Irish squadron of revenue cruisers at Kingstown, Dublin, is erroneously supposed to have been a knight banneret in consequence of having been knighted under the Royal Standard).
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Arms of Alexander Lindsay of Glenesk: Gules, a fess chequy argent and azure, a mullet of the second in chief on the dexter side. Sir Alexander Lindsay of Glenesk (died 1381) was a Scottish knight banneret. Active in jousting and as a crusader he was in favour with the Scottish kings David II and Robert II.
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He was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Denbighshire in 1584. In 1586 Lloyd, a fervent Protestant, fought for the Dutch under the Earl of Leicester. He died in London the following year on his way home, having been made a knight banneret. He was buried in his native parish on 3 March 1587.
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As part of the Black Prince's vanguard FitzWalter fought at the Siege of Calais in 1346. He was by now an experienced soldier and had been made a knight banneret. He was still on campaign in France in 1348, by which time he had returned to Northampton's service. FitzWalter frequently returned to England to attend parliament.
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Thomas Lovell, the third son of Sir Ralf Lovell was a loyal supporter of Henry VII. He fought at the Battle of Bosworth 1485 and was knighted by Henry VII for his prowess. In 1485 he was created President of the Council and Chancellor of the Exchequer for life. His elder brother Sir Gregory was made banneret at Stoke.
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At the Battle of Edgehill (23 October 1642) his troop was in Lord Grandison's regiment, on the left wing. In the battle the Royal standard-bearer, Sir Edmund Verney, was killed and the standard taken. Smith, with two others, recovered it. For this service he was knighted on the field, being, it is said, the last knight banneret created in England.
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After Berwick upon Tweed was captured by Richard, Duke of Gloucester in July 1482, Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland burnt a number of places in the area. At the end of his campaign, on 22 August 1482 he knighted twenty of his soldiers at the "mains of Sessford."Metcalfe, Walter Charles, A book of Knights Banneret etc.,, London (1885), p.
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He succeeded to the title of 3rd Lord Cherleton in 1360. He is reported in the muster rolls for 1372 as being of the rank of Banneret leading 22 archers and men-at-arms on a naval expedition under the leadership of King Edward III. He had two sons, John and Edward who later became the 4th and 5th lords Cherleton.
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John Hunyadi, Jr. (c. 1419 – 1440 or 1441) was a Hungarian noble and knight banneret from the House of Hunyadi, younger brother of regent John Hunyadi as the second son of Vajk (Voyk) and Erzsébet (Elizabeth) Morzsinai (Morsina/Marsina). There is little information about him. He was first mentioned in the charter issued for four members of his family on 12 February 1419.
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Coke was the eldest son of Thomas Coke, Lord of Dudlington. He was created a knight banneret during his lifetime. Coke was the marshal of the army of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, the lieutenant of King Edward III of England and accompanied the Earl of Lancaster to Spain in 1343. He was the Seneschal of Gascony between 25 March 1347 and 1349.
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John Bardolf, 3rd Baron Bardolf, Knight Banneret, (of Wormegay, Norfolk; 13 January 1314 – 29 July 1363), was a baron in the Peerage of England. He was the son of Thomas Bardolf, 2nd Baron Bardolf and Agnes Grandison, thought to be the daughter of William de Grandison, 1st Baron Grandison.Douglas Richardson. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, Genealogical Publishing, 2005.
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He was High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire again from 1604 to 1605. He acquired the property of Prendergast from his first wife, and was some time created Knight Banneret. History of Parliament Online - Alban Stepneth Stepney married firstly Margaret Cathern daughter of Thomas Catharn or Cadern of Prendergast and secondly Mary Philipps, daughter of William Philipps of Picton. His eldest son John was created a baronet in 1621.
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Three years later the song book Salmer og Sang was published. Adelfia started publishing the national newsletter Unions-Banneret in 1880. These initiatives led to the union establishing a publishing office, Den evangeliske Bok & Traktatforening.Eidberg (1976): 38 Raufoss Baptist Church The Baptist communities in Norway enjoyed close relations with BMS in England and Scandinavian expatriate congregations in the United States through the American Baptist Missionary Union (ABMU).
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Kyriell served under Henry V of England in Normandy, and in 1436 held the fortress at Le Crotoy in Picardy. He served under John, Lord Talbot at this period, around Rouen, and was created knight-banneret by 1443. He led the English forces in the 1450 French victory, the Battle of Formigny. Released after being captured at Formigny, Kyriell was a Member of Parliament.
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In his The Brus, John Barbour writes in Book XV that Douglas fought under his own banner,Barbour, The Bruce, p 264. hence Douglas had to be a knight banneret. Barbour does state Douglas and others were knighted on the field of the Battle of Bannockburn, "each in their own degree" which would suggest not all were knights bachelor. Others believe that he was knighted late in his career.
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In the latter year he resigned, William de Hale being appointed to succeed him. In 1322, he was returned by the sheriff as one of the inhabitants of Hertfordshire liable to military service, and summoned to render the same, being described as a banneret. His death probably took place in 1323, as his estates are entered amongst the escheats of the seventeenth year of Edward II's reign (July 1323–July 1324).
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In 1497, at the Battle of Blackheath, Hussey was knighted. Six years later, he was made "Knight of the Body", bodyguard to King Henry VII, followed by an appointment as "Master of Lyfield Forest", Rutland in 1505 and Comptroller of the Household in 1509. On 16 August 1513, at Tournai, after the Battle of the Spurs, he and his brother William were promoted to Knights Banneret by Henry VIII.
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Sir Anthony Ughtred or Oughtred Knight banneret, ( – 6 October 1534) was as an English soldier and military administrator during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII. Ughtred fought in Ireland, the Anglo Scottish border and both on land and at sea in France. He served with distinction as captain of Berwick, marshal of Tournai and governor of Jersey. In 1530, he married Elizabeth Seymour, sister to Jane, future third wife to Henry VIII.
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Sadler accompanied Hertford into Scotland, in the same role in September 1545. He accompanied Lord Hertford again, this time at the Battle of Pinkie in the post of High Treasurer of the Army. On 10 September 1547, in recognition of his services during the fighting, Sadler was made a knight banneret. Sadlier was present when Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, was arrested, and he also accompanied the force that put down Robert Kett's Norfolk Rebellion.
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In the Treaty of Baden, the terms of peace between France and the Holy Roman Empire, which had been formally incomplete, were agreed to. That ended the last of the many conflicts of the War of the Spanish Succession. Details of the Treaty of Baden and the peace conference are recalled by the town's banneret and eyewitness, Caspar Joseph Dorer (1673-1754), in his "Diarium".Das Diarium des Badener Friedens 1714 von Caspar Joseph Dorer.
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In her will she requested to be buried in Stratton Church, between the bodies of her two husbands.Vivian, 1887, p. 12 One of Jane Grenville's sisters, Katherine Grenville, married into the Arundell family of Lanherne, namely to Sir John VII Arundell of Lanherne (1474–1545) Knight Banneret, "the most important man in the county",Byrne, Muriel St. Clare, (ed.) The Lisle Letters, 6 vols, University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1981, vol.1, p.
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Arthur Penhaligon- Rightful heir to the Architect, Master of the Lower House, Lord of the Far Reaches, Duke of the Border Sea, Overlord of the Great Maze, Commander of the Glorious Army of the Architect and Master of the Middle House. Suzy Turquoise Blue- Monday's Tierce and Piper's child. Fred Initial Numbers Gold- Lieutenant in the Army of the Architect and Piper's child. Banneret Ugham- Newnith (New Nithling) soldier and guardian of Suzy and Fred.
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Following the creation of the Royal Air Force in 1918, most of its ranks were given unique names, to distinguish RAF personnel from their counterparts in the British Army and Royal Navy. It was initially suggested that the rank equivalent to an army colonel or a navy captain should be known in the RAF as "banneret". However, this proposal was rejected and the name group captain was instead chosen for the rank in question.
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After the deposition of Edward II in 1327, Montagu continued in the service of Edward's son Edward III. He helped the new king in repelling the Scottish invasion of 1327, and was created knight banneret in 1328. Montagu enjoyed a close relationship with Edward III, and accompanied him abroad on a diplomatic mission in 1329. That same year he was sent on an embassy to negotiate a marriage alliance with King Philip VI of France.
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He succeeded his father in 1492 and was knighted in the field by Henry VII for his services against the Cornish rebels at Blackheath on 17 June 1497. He was made Knight banneret in 1513. He was present at the sieges of Thérouanne and Tournay in 1513 as well as the two meetings between Henry VIII and Francis I:– the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520 and again in 1532.
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By his marriage to Margaret de Bohun, Countess of Devon in 1325, Courtenay acquired the manor of Powderham; it was later granted by Margaret de Bohun to one of her younger sons, Sir Philip Courtenay (died 1406), whose family has occupied it until the present day, and who were recognised in 1831 as having been de jure Earls of Devon from 1556. On 20 January 1327 Courtenay was made a knight banneret.
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He was appointed keeper of the town and castle of Warwick, in 1321, and later was ordered to raise forces in County Warwick and lend them to the king. He kept the castle until July 1326. He fought at the Battle of Boroughbridge 16 March 1321/2, as a banneret, on the king's side. He was summoned for service in Scotland in 1322 and 1323, and for service in Gascony, in person, 1324 and 1325.
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By a gift of archiepiscopal property he was at one time able to confer nobility ('), another rarely delegated princely prerogative (usually only knighting was allowed to non-sovereign nobility). Another privilege was his right to take an oath before a court of justice through his deputy, and not personally. The primate was also chief priest and chancellor of the Hungarian national Order of St. Stephen, established in 1764. As first banneret (') of Hungary, he was a Magnate, i.e.
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George Cokayne notes in The Complete Peerage (1913) that King George II revived the honour when he created sixteen knights banneret on the field of the battle of Dettingen on 27 June 1743: Although Cokayne's source for this, a diary entry by Miss Gertrude Savile, states "This honour had been laid aside since James I, when Baronets were instituted", which contradicts other sources, a news magazine published in the same year as the battle recorded the honours.
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Sir Thomas Cornwall (1468–1537) was the 8th feudal baron of Burford. He was knighted in 1497. He was born the son of Sir Edmund Cornwall of Burford, Shropshire. He succeeded his father in 1489, was knighted at the Battle of Blackheath in 1497, and made a knight banneret in 1513. He was appointed High Sheriff of Herefordshire for 1502–03 and 1514–15 and High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1505–06, 1515–16, 1519–20 and 1531–32.
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Thomas took part in the wars with France and was at the Siege of Tournay in 1513, and fought at the Battle of the Spurs on 16 August 1513. He was made Knight Banneret by King Henry VIII in 1514, and attended the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. He was summoned to Parliament from 1514 to 1523. In 1521 he was one of the twelve Barons for the trial of the Duke of Buckingham.
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During the fourteenth century, men who had received an individual summon to parliament, but did not possess the estate of a baron or higher peers, were styled as bannerets of parliament, and were considered to be a distinct from and socially inferior to other peers. By the early fifteenth century, this distinction between baron and banneret had disappeared.Given-Wilson, Chris (1996). The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages : The Fourteenth-Century Political Community, pp. 60-62.
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Pan Volodyovski, a general who is recovering from a wound, is living with Pakosh Gashtovt in Lauda, and the people want him to marry Olenka. Kmita returns to kidnap Olenka and Volodyovski with his force besieges him and his Cossacks at Lyubich. They fight a duel and the banneret of Orsha is wounded. Saving Olenka, Michal Volodyovski decides to propose to her but is rejected and he knows she loves Kmita, despite everything that has occurred.
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In 1513 he accompanied Henry VIII to France where, in recognition of his bravery, he was made knight banneret. In 1520 he was present with Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. He died in 1539, having married twice. His first marriage was with Jane, the daughter and heiress of James Dernford of West Stonehouse and widow of Charles Dynham of Nutwell, Devon, with whom he had 3 sons, including his heir Richard Edgecumbe and 4 daughters.
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' The projected campaign in Spain offered Sir James the ideal opportunity for the latter. In the spring of 1330, armed with a safe conduct from Edward III of England and a letter of recommendation to King Alfonso XI of Castile, Douglas set off from Berwick Barbour (Duncan), Book 20, l. 318 and sailed first to Sluys in Flanders. Here, according to the contemporary Walloon chronicler Jean Le Bel, Douglas' company consisted of one knight banneret, six ordinary knights and twenty esquires.
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Distinguishing himself in France, Ralph was appointed to the office of Seneschal of Gascony between 1323–1324 and also held the office of Steward of the Duchy of Aquitaine. While in Gascony he participated in the War of Saint- Sardos. Basset held the office of Constable of Dover Castle between March and September 1326 as well as the office of Warden of the Cinque Ports during the same time. Ralph was created a Knight Banneret in 1341 and died in 1343.
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On 16 August 1513, at Tournai, after the Battle of the Spurs, he and his brother John were promoted to Knights Banneret by Henry VIII. He returned to France in 1520 in company with other knights to attend on Henry VIII at his meeting with Francis I of France at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. This was followed by a mission to the Archduke Ferdinand in 1523 and his appointment as (financial) comptroller of Calais early in 1526.
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In 1170, the young knight Baldwin of Bethune and his lifelong friend, William Marshal were at the court of Henry the Young King.Paul Meyer, ‘’L'histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, Comte de Striguil et de Pembroke, Régent d'Angleterre de 1216 à 1219’’, Laurens, Paris, 1891. In 1180 at the great international tournament of Lagny, Baldwin was a knight banneret, leading the Flemish team while William headed the English team. In 1846, Lagny-sur-Marne annexed the commune of Saint-Denis- du-Port.
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By the beginning of 1487 he was in the service of John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, and referred to by the Earl as his 'right trusty and right well beloved councillor'. He fought at the Battle of Stoke on 16 June 1487, and was made a knight banneret on the field by King Henry VII.The Manors of Suffolk: The hundreds of Babergh and Blackbourn, by Walter Arthur Copinger, Harold Bernard Copinger, T.F. Unwin, 1905. Page 208; accessed November 2018.
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Du Merle was the son of Guillaume VI du Merle and Marie de Nollent.Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac, Documents historiques inédits, tirés des collections manuscrites de la Bibliothèque royale et des archives ou des bibliothèques des départements (Didot frères, 1841). He served Philip III and Philip IV as a knight banneret. In 1302 he was made Marshal of France by Philip IV following the deaths of Simon de Melun and Guy I of Clermont at the Battle of the Golden Spurs, in which du Merle had also fought.
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He returned to favour, and 1540 saw his appointment as Comptroller of the Household, Constable of the Tower and as a Privy Counsellor. In his role as Constable of the Tower, he supervised the arrangements for the execution of Catherine Howard. In 1541 he became a Knight of the Garter and in 1542 he succeeded as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. In 1544 he undertook an important role for the invasion of France, organising transport and supplies for the army, and he became a knight banneret.
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By the time the fighting flared up again in the spring of 1307 they had learned the value of guerrilla warfare – known at the time as "secret war" – using fast-moving, lightly equipped and agile forces to maximum effect against an enemy often dependent on static defensive positions. Sir James Douglas recaptured Roxburgh Castle from the English in 1313. He was made a knight banneret, a high honor, and fought at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. The English called Sir James "The Black Douglas"Barbour, John.
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The order was originally composed of fourteen knights. The requirements of membership were the possession of a charger and a palfrey, and the ability to serve at one's own expense for one week whenever required. The Order did collect dues (at least from noblemen, riches hommes) for purposes estreordinaire (extraordinary) according to rank (puissance): eight écus from a knight banneret, four from what they called a chivallier simple, and one from any squire. Annually on Saint Andrew's Day the knights assembled and approved expenditures.
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Berkeley was the eldest son of Laurence Berkeley of Wymondham, Leicestershire, who died in France in 1458, and wife Joan Woodford, sister of the Agincourt veteran Robert Woodford of Sproxton, Leicestershire, Knight Banneret. Berkeley was the great-great-grandson of Thomas Berkeley of Coston, Leicestershire, second son of Thomas de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley, and his wife Jane de Ferrers, daughter of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby. Berkeley moved to Wymondham upon his marriage to Isabel Hamelin, daughter of John Hamelin of Wymondham.
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Ralph Ashton was a man of influence, and in the reign of Edward IV he held various offices. He was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1472, and for his courage at the capture of Berwick upon Tweed he was made a knight banneret at Hutton Field. When his commander, the Duke of Gloucester, became Richard III, he rewarded Sir Ralph's adhesion to the Yorkist cause by extensive grants of land. In 1483 he was appointed vice-constable of England and lieutenant of the Tower of London.
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Swynnerton's father was Thomas Swynnerton of Swynnerton Hall and Hilton Hall, Staffordshire. His mother was Alice Stanley, daughter of Sir Humphrey Stanley of Pipe Ridware and Clifton Campville.The History of Parliament: Members 1509–1558 – SWYNNERTON, Humphrey (Author: A. D.K. Hawkyard) Both his parents were from landed gentry families based in the southern half of Staffordshire. Of his grandparents, the most distinguished was Sir Humphrey Stanley, who was knighted by Henry VII after the Battle of Bosworth and made a banneret after the Battle of Stoke Field.
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Balliol was, however, driven out of Scotland, and during the retreat Ughtred held the bridge at Roxburgh against the Scots and secured Balliol's retreat. In the same year he was made a knight-banneret. In 1338 Edward III required Balliol to entrust the command of Perth, threatened with a siege by Robert the Steward, to Ughtred. He took over the command on 4 August, on condition that he was given a garrison of 220 men in time of peace and eight hundred in time of war.
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Richard nevertheless decidedonce he regained power in Mayto retain Clopton, who had been created knight banneret in April. In September 1397, the King decided to strike back at the Lords Appellant. Clopton presided when the Earl of Arundel, one of the King's main antagonists, was arraigned on a charge of treason, and executed. The next year he was asked for an opinion on a set of legal rulings that had been pronounced in 1387 on Richard's prompting, and that had contributed to the problems of that period.
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Coat of arms of Sir Richard Ratcliffe, KG Sir Richard Ratcliffe, KG (died 22 August 1485) was a close confidant of Richard III of England. Ratcliffe came from a gentry family in the Lake District, and became a companion of Richard when the latter was still Duke of Gloucester (1461–83). He was one of Richard's trustees in the lordship of Richmond, and was named steward of Barnard Castle. Richard, while Duke of Gloucester, knighted Ratcliffe during the Scottish campaigns, at the same time creating him a knight banneret.
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Sir Thomas was the eldest son of Sir Robert Strickland of Sizergh and his wife Margaret Alford, daughter of Sir William Alford of Meaux Abbey. He matriculated from St. Alban Hall, Oxford, at age 16 and then studied at Gray's Inn. At Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the First English Civil War, Thomas Strickland commanded the regiment of foot while his father Sir Robert Strickland commanded a regiment of horse. For his gallantry, Thomas Strickland was made knight banneret by King Charles I in person, on the field at Edgehill, 23 October 1642.
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For his residence he entirely remodelled two large houses including the ruined former Archbishop's palace in York between 1616 and 1623.R.J. Roberts, "'Two meane fellows grand projectors': the self-projection of Sir Arthur Ingram and Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex, 1600-1645, with particular reference to their houses" Unpublished PhD thesis, Teesside University (2012), pp. 111-118. He received the honour of knighthood on 9 July 1613, and his brother in 1617.W.C. Metcalfe, A Book of Knights Banneret, Knights of the Bath, and Knights Bachelor (Mitchell and Hughes, London 1885), pp.
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Born about 1460, he was fifth son of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, by his first wife Eleanor, daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury. He was knighted during the reign of Edward IV by Richard, Duke of Gloucester on 24 August 1482 at the capture of Berwick upon Tweed.Metcalfe, Walter Charles, ed., Book of Knights Banneret, Knights of the Bath etc., IV Henry VI to 1660, London (1885), p.7 On 17 April 1483 he was one of the pall-bearers at Edward IV's funeral.
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During the campaign of 1282 during the conquest of Wales, he was one of the leader of eight lances of the cavalry, before appointment as a Knight Banneret, commander of 6000 Foot soldiers from the Welsh Marches. In 1283 he was commander of 1000 foot soldiers and was elevated to Deputy Constable. In 1284 he briefly served as commander of Castell y Bere in Merionethshire, Wales. Turberville was granted Hasfield, Gloucestershire by his daughter's father- inlaw, Grimbold Paunceforte, for life, reverting on Hugh's death to Grimbold's son, Grimbold.
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After Humphrey Weld, governor of Portland Castle and grandson of Sir Humphrey Weld, Lord Mayor of London, had bought the Lulworth estates from the Howards and become "Humphrey of Lulworth", his only issue was his daughter, Mary. When he died in 1685, his successor was his nephew, William Weld, son of Humphrey's younger brother, Sir John Weld of Compton Bassett, Knight banneret. William had married Elizabeth Shireburn in 1672 the daughter of the squire of Stonyhurst. William died in 1698 and was succeeded by his surviving younger son, Humphrey.
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Morris's Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers, 1875; Simpson's Edmund Campion, 1867; and Challoner's Memoirs of Missionary Priests, 1803). The next prominent members of the Lanherne family are Sir Thomas (d.1552) and Humphry Arundell (1513-1549-50), of both of whom accounts are given below. From Sir John Arundell, the knight- banneret of Therouenne, descended the Arundells of Wardour Castle; and by the marriage of Mary Arundell, in 1739, to Henry, seventh Baron Arundell of Wardour, the Lanherne and Wardour branches of the family were, after a separation of more than two centuries, reunited.
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Arms of Seymour: Gules, two wings conjoined in lure or. Wolfhall Farm, all that remains of Wulfhall Hall, home of the Seymours Sir John Seymour of Wulfhall in the parish of Great Bedwyn in the Savernake Forest, Wiltshire, Knight banneret (c. 1474 – 21 December 1536) was an English soldier and a courtier who served both Henry VII and Henry VIII. Born into a prominent gentry family, he is best known as the father of the Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour, and hence grandfather of king Edward VI of England.
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By this time, tensions had started appearing among the English generals, particularly between Pembroke and Chandos. This was based on their vastly different social status; as Jonathan Sumption put it, Pembroke "may have had the grander name but his inexperience showed." Although Chandos had by now been appointed Seneschal of Anjou, Pembroke—with what a biographer terms "aristocratic arrogance"—refused to serve under Chandos, who was, Richard Barber reminds us, only a banneret. It is possible that Pembroke was acting under the advice of his council, but either way, their armies were kept separate from each other on account of this.
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Sir William Tyrwhitt (by 1458 – 10 April 1522), of Kettleby, Lincolnshire was an English courtier and Member of Parliament. He was born the eldest son of Sir Robert Tyrwhitt of Kettleby and succeeded his father in 1457/58. He was appointed an Esquire of the body by 1482 and knighted in 1487 for his bravery at the Battle of Stoke Field and elevated to knight banneret after the Battle of Blackheath. He was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1481-82, 1494–95, 1500–01 and 1517–18 and knight of the shire in the English House of Commons for Lincolnshire in 1491.
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Le Bel, Vol I, Ch.16 It is not clear whether the knight banneret was Sir James himself. Other knights named by the Scottish poet John Barbour included Sir William de Keith, Sir William de St. Clair of Rosslyn and the brothers Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig and Sir Walter Logan.Barbour (Duncan), Book 20, ll. 480-484 Others alleged at one time or another to have accompanied Douglas are John de St. Clair, younger brother of Sir William, Sir Simon Lockhart of Lee, Sir Kenneth Moir, William Borthwick, Sir Alan Cathcart and Sir Robert de Glen but evidence is lacking.
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The maintenance of the Ordinances of 1311, the basis for reforms during the reign of Edward, was part of the agreement from the first, and the final agreement officially approved them. The removal of evil counsellors, a constant in pressure for reform from the earliest days of Piers Gaveston's ascendancy, were set aside. Pardon for Lancaster and his friends for all trespasses was extended. A parliament was to be summoned, and, most of all, a council was to be formed, a member of which should be a banneret nominated by Lancaster, who would not otherwise be present.
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Smuggling of wool caused financial hardship and the collapse of the scheme. From June 1338 to October 1339 the king had to borrow over £100,000 from Pole; he acquired the estate of Burstwick (or lordship of Holderness) from the financially stricken king for £22,650, which brought about the king's resentment. In 1339 he settled a loan of 50,000 florins from the Archbishop of Trier (Treves) in place of the king's crown, which had been used as collateral. The same year De la Pole achieved the rank of Knight Banneret, and on 26 September 1339 he was made Baron of the Exchequer.
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William Stanley fought on the Yorkist side at the Battle of Blore Heath in 1459, whereas his elder brother Thomas, Lord Stanley had raised troops by the commission of the Lancastrian Crown but refrained from committing his forces on either side. Attainted in 1459, he fled into exile, but returned to fight for the Yorkists at Towton. In 1465 he was granted the Skipton lands and castle of the dispossessed Lancastrian Cliffords. Following the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471, it was he who captured Queen Margaret of Anjou, who led the Lancastrian faction, and he was made a Knight Banneret by the king.
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It was originally proposed that the RAF ranks were to be derived from existing Royal Navy and Army ranks. Both services were consulted and both reacted unfavourably—the Navy unhappy about the use of its higher ranks and the Army complaining it provided the "junior ranks". This resulted in a compromise whereby the officer ranks were proposed to be: ensign, lieutenant, flight leader, squadron leader, reeve, banneret, fourth ardian, third ardian, second ardian, ardian and air marshal. A further proposal was: ensign, lieutenant, flight-leader, squadron-leader, wing-leader, leader, flight ardian, squadron ardian, wing ardian, ardian, air marshal.
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During the period lasting from April 1312 through January 1319, Pessagno loaned a total of £143,579 to the king—a higher annual average than any other royal banker under Edward I and Edward II. The interest he accrued, in the form of pledged "gifts", came to at least £6,782. During the War of Saint-Sardos rumours circulated that Pessagno was planning a naval attack on England with Genoese and Portuguese ships. After the fall of Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer in October 1330, Pessagno returned to England and was with the royal court at Christmas. He was recognized with the rank of banneret.
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Thomas Ughtred, 1st Baron Ughtred (also Oughtred), KG (1292 – before 28 May 1365) was an English soldier and politician. The eldest son and heir of Robert Ughtred, lord of the manor of Scarborough, Kilnwick Percy, Monkton Moor, and other places in Yorkshire. He was born in 1292, being eighteen years of age at his father's death, before 24 May 1310. During a distinguished career he was knighted in 1324, made a Knight banneret in 1337, a Knight of the garter between 15 May 1358 and 1360, and summoned to parliament as Baron Ughtred on 30 April 1344.
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After being released, the Will accompanies Arthur, Suzy, Fred, Banneret Ugham, and a host of Dawn's Gilded Youths to Lady Friday's Scriptorium, where Friday claimed to have left the Fifth Key. There, they find that a battle between the Piper and Superior Saturday's forces has left Saturday's Dusk dead, and the Piper's Children unconscious. Despite Arthur's and the Will's warning of a possible trap, the Piper orders Ugham to take the fake Key from its pedestal, activating the trap and breaching the Void of Nothing. This kills Ugham and quickly consumes the Scriptorium and most of the Top Shelf.
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Fred and the other Piper's Children involved in the attack are all given tattoos around their necks that magically bind them to the Piper's will (though Arthur later removes Fred and Suzy's tattoos). Fred and Arthur later meet up again when Arthur is accidentally transported to the Middle House by a Transfer Plate. Fred is similarly transported to the Middle House by a transfer plate that Lady Friday had meant as a trap for the Piper. They join up in a gold leaf processing plant on the grand canal where Arthur is found by Fred, Suzy, and a New Nithling named Banneret Ugham.
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A Banneret was the name of an officer or magistrate of Rome towards the close of the 14th century. The people of Rome, and throughout the territory of the church, during the disputes of the antipopes, had formed a kind of republican government; where the whole power was lodged in the hands of a magistrate called Senator, and twelve heads of quarters called Bannerets, by reason of the banners which each raised in his district. By the end of the 14th century the Conservators, had succeeded the Bannerets, and were set in a fair way to become the effective representatives of the people.
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The Marshal of the Army of God and the Holy Church was the title displayed from 1215 by Robert Fitzwalter,Also spelled FitzWalter, fitzWalter, etc. the leader of the baronial opposition against John, King of England and one of the twenty-five sureties of Magna Carta. He was feudal baron of Little Dunmow, Essex and constable of Baynard's Castle, in London, to which was annexed the hereditary office of castellain and chief banneret of the City of London. He was elected by his fellow barons, and held the title at least from when the rebels armed themselves in Lincolnshire and formally defied King John.
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King Henry VIII of England was so impressed by his performance, that he made him a banneret. Shortly after, he was recalled from England, because the alliance with Spain came to an end when King Henry converted to Protestantism. Romero fought in the Italian War of 1551–1559, where he distinguished himself in the Battle of St. Quentin (1557), for which he was made a Knight in the Order of Santiago. In 1565 he was stationed in Sicily, but the following year, the Duke of Alba made him Maestre de campo, and he accompanied the Duke to the Low Countries to crush the Dutch Revolt.
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The castle was originally associated with Clan Fraser, and was perhaps named for Oliver Fraser, who gave lands to Newbattle Abbey as recorded in its register. The lines of descent from Oliver and his nephew Adam are uncertain, but the Frasers continued to exert power from Oliver Castle with Sir Bernard Fraser and Sir Gilbert Fraser, who held in turn the hereditary office of Sheriff of Tweeddale. A descendant, Sir Simon Fraser of Oliver and Neidpath, Knight Banneret, fought in the Wars of Scottish Independence. Oliver passed to the Tweedies through a marriage to Sir Simon Fraser's daughter or granddaughter, by which they also gained Drumelzier.
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His grandfather was Sire John de Mohun of Dunster, banneret, became the first Baron Mohun in 1299, and sealed the Barons' Letter to the Pope in 1301; he bore at the Battle of Falkirk (1298), and at the Siege of Carlaverock (1300). In 1328 and 1331, he served in the Kings service in Brittany, with Sir Bartholemew de Burghersh. In 1332, he attended Edward Prince of Wales KG, when Edward III KG entered France by Normandy, and continued in service at the Siege of Calais, and again in 1333. His last recorded military service was in attendance to the Prince of Wales into Gascony in 1341.
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In that parliament he obtained an act for disgavelling his lands in Kent. About this time he was controller of the royal household; and on 21 April 1496 he was made steward of the lands which had belonged to the Duchess of York in Surrey and Sussex. On 17 June 1497 he assisted in defeating the Cornish rebels at Blackheath, for which service he was created a banneret. In 1499 he and Richard Hatton were commissioned by the king to go in quest of Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, after his first flight to the continent, and persuade him to come back.
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His eldest brother, Gregory, inherited Barton Bendish, was knighted at the battle of Stoke in 1487, and was, by Margaret, sister of Sir William Brandon, standard-bearer to Henry at Bosworth Field, father of Sir Thomas Lovell of Barton Bendish and of Sir Francis Lovell (died 20 Jan 1552), who became adopted son and heir to his uncle. Another brother, Sir Robert Lovell (died 1520?), was made a knight-banneret at Blackheath in 1497. Margaret Brandon Lovell later married Hugh Manning. Thomas Lovell married, first, Eleanor, daughter of Jeffrey Ratcliffe; and, secondly, Isabel, sister of Edmund de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, of Hamlake, a widow, but left no issue.
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Peers are entitled to the use of supporters in their achievements of arms. Hereditary supporters are normally limited to hereditary peers, certain members of the Royal Family, chiefs of Scottish Clans, Scottish feudal barons whose baronies predate 1587. Non-hereditary supporters are granted to life peers, Knights of the Garter, Knights of the Thistle, Knights and Dames Grand Cross of the Bath, Knights and Dames Grand Cross of St Michael and St George, Knights and Dames Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Knights and Dames Grand Cross of the British Empire, and knights banneret. Peers, like most other armigers, may display helms atop their arms.
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A grandson of the above-named admiral — also a Sir John Arundell — was made knight-banneret on the field of Therouenne, died in 1545, and was buried in the church of St Mary Woolnoth, Lombard Street. He was the father of the erudite Mary Arundell. Another Sir John Arundell, who died in 1589 — or, according to the Isleworth Register (Oliver's Collections), in 1591 — at Isleworth, was converted to Catholicism, as Dodd tells us in his 'Church History,' by Father Cornelius (a native of the neighbouring town of Bodmin). In defence of Cornelius Sir John Arundell lost his own liberty, and was confined for nine years in Ely Palace, Holborn (cf.
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A knight banneret, he served in Ireland with the Duke of Aumale in 1399, and attended Richard's young Queen Isabella of Valois homeward to Calais in 1401. When West was seventeen, he and his mother and sister Eleanor were assaulted and robbed, by Nicholas Clifton, who carried his sister off; he was probably the same Nicholas Clifton who later married her. West was knighted in 1399, and summoned to Parliament as Baron West in 1402, by which time he held the manor of Harby, Nottinghamshire. He inherited the manor of Newton Tony, Wiltshire, from his father, and the manors of Midsomer Norton, Somerset, and Hinton Martell, Dorset, from his mother.
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Woodville was a captain in 1429, served in France in 1433 and was a knight of the regent Duke of Bedford in 1435. He was at Gerberoy in 1435 and served under William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, in 1435–36. He then fought under Somerset and Shrewsbury in 1439 and the Duke of York in 1441–42, when he was made captain of Alençon and knight banneret. He was appointed seneschal of Gascony in 1450 (but failed to reach it before its fall), lieutenant of Calais in 1454–55, and to defend Kent against invasion by the Yorkist earls in 1459–60 (but was captured at Sandwich).
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Fane was nominated under Henry VIII's will to be steward (with Sir William Goring) of Lord Lincoln's lands. He took part in the Scottish campaign of 1547 under the Protector Somerset, and after the battle of Pinkie Cleugh at Musselburgh was created Knight banneret. Two others so honoured were Sir Francis Bryan and Sir Ralph Sadler, and Fane was one of the last three soldiers ever to be so knighted on the field of combat. As a supporter of the Protector he shared the favour of Edward VI, and received from him in 1550, a grant of the mansion and estates of Penshurst Place and manor of Lyghe, the forfeited property of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham.
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Rhys demonstrated his continuing loyalty to Henry by suppressing a Yorkist rebellion at Brecon in 1486, and taking part in the campaign against the pretender Lambert Simnel in 1487 and the subsequent campaigns against Perkin Warbeck. He played a part in the defeat of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497, capturing the rebel leader Lord Audeley, for which he was awarded the honour of Knight Banneret. As reward for his loyalty to Henry, he acquired many lands and lucrative offices in South Wales. He was appointed Constable and Lieutenant of Breconshire, Chamberlain of Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire, Seneschall and Chancellor of Haverfordwest, Rouse and Builth, Justiciar of South Wales, and Governor of all Wales.
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It was renovated several times in the following centuries. The municipal government added a Council of Fifty in 1558 and in 1578, an inner council of Twenty-four. The inner council was made up of nobles, citizens and habitants. Later the councils became a Council of Twelve and a council of Twenty-Four, which was headed by a knight banneret. In 1570, Theodore Beza headed the regional assembly of Protestant refugee clergymen in Nyon. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, many Huguenots fled to Nyon. In 1688, they founded the Bourse française to help other refugees. Nyon remained an important transhipment point for trade along Lake Geneva and from France and Italy.
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Born about 1287, he was the son and heir of Sir John Ingham (1260-1309) of Ingham, Norfolk, who had served in the wars of King Edward I against the Scots, and his wife Margery. In 1310 he not only inherited his father's lands in Norfolk, Suffolk, Wiltshire and Hampshire but was himself summoned by King Edward II for military service against Scotland. Appointed a household knight of the king, he received many royal grants including the custody of Ellesmere Castle in Shropshire, keeper for the counties of Cheshire and Flintshire, and official positions in Shropshire and Wiltshire. As a knight banneret, he served in Scotland with the king in August 1322.
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Sir John was with Henry VIII in the Anglo-French War of 1513,Before Sir John left on the French campaign he made his will dated 24 April 1513, which began "intending to depart over see with our most dreadde soverayne in his royall armee..." . and was made a knight banneret for his conduct at the battle of the Spurs. He obtained renown likewise at the Siege of Thérouanne and Tourney. Maitland in his History of London records a charitable association, of which Sir John Aston was one of the members and founders: Sir John died on 14 March 1523, and he was succeeded by his eldest son Sir Edward Aston of Tixall.
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In 1513 he embarked at Southampton with the army that invaded France, and was one of the commanders of ‘the middle ward,’ having been appointed on 28 May the king's standard-bearer in the room of Sir Edward Howard, the admiral, who was drowned. He commanded a hundred men when he passed out of Calais on 30 June. He and Sir Charles Brandon had five shillings a day each as joint captains of the Sovereign, in which posts they crossed the English Channel. At the winning of Tournai he was created a knight-banneret, and as master of the revels he celebrated the victory by an interlude, in which he himself played before the king.
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John Devereux was created a knight bachelor before 1377. He was subsequently summoned to Parliament on 28 September 1384 as Lord (Baron) Devereux. Although his great-grandfather William Devereux had been summoned to parliament as "Lord Devereux" on 6 February 1299, this is considered as a new creation as none of the intervening generations between his death in 1314 and this creation in 1384 assumed the title or possessed the financial resources to support a barony. John Devereux was further honoured on 10 September 1385 by his creation as a knight banneret and placement at the Standard, and honoured still further by his creation as a Knight of the Order of the Garter in April 1389.
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On 10 May 1346, he was granted an annuity of £40 for the duration of the wars in France, to be paid from the revenues of St Neots Priory. He was with the King in the campaign which began with the landing of English forces at La Hogue in the Cotentin on 12 July 1346, and culminated with the English victory at the Battle of Crecy on 26 August 1346. With his retinue of six knights, eleven esquires and twenty-three archers, Lisle fought at Crecy in the second battalion under William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton. After the battle, he was created a knight banneret by the King, with an annuity of £200 in support of the dignity.
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Sir John Arundell (died 1545), detail from his monumental brass, St Columb Major, 1890 engraving Arms of Arundel of Lanherne, Cornwall, a junior line of which later became Baron Arundell of Wardour: Sable, six martlets argent. These are early canting arms, based on the French for swallow hirondelle. They were recorded for Reinfred de Arundel (died circa 1280), lord of the manor of Lanherne, Cornwall, in the 15th-century Shirley Roll of Arms Sir John Arundell (1474–1545) Knight Banneret, of Lanherne, St. Mawgan-in-Pyder, Cornwall, was "the most important man in the county", being Receiver-General of the Duchy of Cornwall.Byrne, Muriel St. Clare, (ed.) The Lisle Letters, 6 vols, University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1981, vol.
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In 1511 he was made, jointly with Sir Thomas Boleyn, constable of Norwich Castle and on 29 July of the same year granted the estate of Maidencote, in Berkshire. With a contingent of some 100 men he took part in the king's campaign in France in 1513, and was made knight banneret after the Battle of the Spurs, where he had served in the vanguard. In 1520 he accompanied the king to his meeting with Francis I of France at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, where he was responsible for the transportation of the gold and silver plate needed for the banquets. He was also present at the subsequent reception for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor at Canterbury in 1522.
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The most distinguished of the line was Sir Richard de Punchardon, made a knight banneret by King Edward III (1327–1377). During the French Campaign of 1356, which ended with the Battle of Poitiers on 19 September, he was caught in an ambuscade, but with his gallant comrades, he fought a way through to the main army under the Black Prince. Sir Richard de Punchardon's lands at Bovey were again under royal protection in 1359.Punchard, 1894, quoting: Foedera," 83° Ed : iii He stood high in court favour, and was entrusted by the King with the guardianship of the young de Bensted of Benington, with estates in Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Wiltshire.Punchard, 1894, quoting: Abbreviatio Rotm : Orig : in Curia Scaccarii," vol. ii. p. 253.
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He was one of the 'chief commanders' of an English force sent to Flanders in 1491 to assist the Emperor Maximilian against the French, and in 1496 was the 'chief commander' of forces raised to suppress the Cornish Rebellion, commanding a retinue at the Battle of Deptford Bridge. He was installed as a Knight of the Garter on 11 May 1510. He participated in the sieges of Therouanne and Tournai in 1513, and was made a knight banneret after the French defeat at the Battle of the Spurs on 18 August 1513. He attended Mary Tudor at her marriage to Louis XII of France in 1514, and attended Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520.
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Antoine-Noé Polier de Bottens descended from a noble family from the French Rouergue that they left for Switzerland in the 16th century to escape persecution as Huguenots and not have to abjure their Protestant faith. The first known member of this family was Jean Polier, who died in 1602 after being Secretary of the Embassy of France in Geneva, a family which included scholars, professors and officers who served with distinction in the armies of most major powers. He was the son of Jean Jacques de Polier de Bottens (1670-1747), knight banneret of Lausanne and his wife Salomée Jeanne Elisabeth Quisard (ca. 1670–1735).Genealogie der Familie He first began to study theology in Lausanne then, in order to complete his studies, moved to Leiden University, where he obtained a doctorate in 1739.
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Jean IV lived in the shadow of his father (an important royal official and military officer) until he succeeded him in November 1405. His father intended, however, that he be fully prepared to take his place. On 9 September 1386, for example, the company of Jean de Bueil “the younger”, knight bachelor, composed of 16 other knights, 179 squires, and 3 archers, was mustered at Mantes and scheduled to serve — under the command of Jean de Bueil “the elder” [knight banneret], who was under the command of Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy — in the army Charles VI intended to lead in person against England, but the expedition had to be “postponed,” after long delays, because bad weather threatened to make a crossing of the Channel extremely hazardous.Famiglietti, R.C. (2018).
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In 1205, he was with the court of the child count, Theobald IV. In 1213, as a veteran of the Crusade, he was questioned concerning the legality of the marriage of Isabella I of Jerusalem to Count Henry II of Champagne, since she had previously been married to Lord Humphrey IV of Toron—who was still alive—and to the late Margrave Conrad of Montferrat. In 1214, following the Battle of Bouvines, he served as a guarantor for the release of a prisoner taken by the French king, Philip Augustus, even though the knights of Champagne had fought on the French side at the battle. At that time, Robert held the rank of a banneret. This rank, coupled with his high position in witness lists, indicate an unusually high profile for a chamberlain.
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Secondly, the right of knighthood was established for the eldest sons of baronets (this was later revoked by George IV in 1827), and thirdly, baronets were allowed to augment their armorial bearings with the Arms of Ulster on an inescutcheon: "in a field Argent, a Hand Geules (or a bloudy hand)". These privileges were extended to baronets of Ireland, and for baronets of Scotland the privilege of depicting the Arms of Nova Scotia as an augmentation of honour. The former applies to this day for all baronets of Great Britain and of the United Kingdom created subsequently. The title of baronet was initially conferred upon noblemen who lost the right of individual summons to Parliament, and was used in this sense in a statute of Richard II. A similar title of lower rank was banneret.
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Stirling was first mentioned in the aftermath of the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333. In March 1334 Stirling was appointed commander of a joint Anglo-Scottish force besieging Loch Leven Castle. He was absent around the 10 June, celebrating the feast day of St Margaret, when the defending Scots made a successful sortie. Nevertheless, the castle surrendered by the end of the summer. Afterwards, in September 1334, Stirling was ambushed near Linlithgow, captured and imprisoned in Dumbarton Castle.Andy King (2002): "‘According to the custom used in French and Scottish wars’: Prisoners and casualties on the Scottish Marches in the fourteenth century", Journal of Medieval History, Volume 28, Issue 3, page 269 He was ransomed within a year, was made a banneret of England on St John's Eve at Perth and entered King's service.
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Routledge, London. The last authentic instance of the creation of knights banneret was by King Charles I to several men at the Battle of Edgehill (1642) including Thomas Strickland of Sizergh for gallantry, and John Smith for rescuing the royal standard from the enemy. Whether any further bannerets were granted is debated by historians. George Cokayne notes in The Complete Peerage (1913) that King George II revived the order when he created sixteen knights bannerets on the field of the Battle of Dettingen in 1743, and although his source for this, a diary entry by Gertrude Savile, states "This honour had been laid aside since James I, when Baronets were instituted", which contradicts other sources, a news magazine published in the same year as the battle recorded the honours.
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Attempts to restrict the power of commanders to make knights would increase during the 16th century and by the end of Elizabeth I's reign, the practice had all but ceased.Gravett (2006), p. 14. Although a knight bachelor, a knight banneret and all grades of nobility usually served as men-at-arms when called to war, the bulk of men-at-arms from the later 13th century came from an evolving social group which became known as the gentry. The man-at-arms could be a wealthy mercenary of any social origin, but more often he had some level of social rank based on income, usually from land. Some came from the class known as serjeants but increasingly during the 14th century they were drawn from an evolving class of esquire.
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Robert FitzWalter's original seal-die, with modern wax impression, in the British Museum. Robert Fitzwalter was the son of Walter Fitz Robert of Woodham Walter and his wife Maud (or Mathilde), the daughter of Richard de Lucy of Diss (a member of the de Lucy family). Robert was a feudal baron of the fourth generation after the Norman conquest, great-grandson of Richard fitz Gilbert (d. c. 1090). His paternal grandfather was Richard fitz Gilbert's son Robert Fitz Richard, steward of Henry I, to whom the king had granted the lordship of Dunmow and of the honour or soke of Baynard's Castle in the southwest angle of the City of London, to which the hereditary office of castellain and chief banneret of the City of London was annexed, both of which had become forfeited to the crown by William Baynard.
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Mary Arundell's father, Sir John Arundell (d.1545), was the son and heir of Sir Thomas Arundell (c.1452–1485) (who after the defeat of King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth (1485) supported Henry Tudor's claim to the throne) by his wife Katherine Dynham, one of the four sisters and coheirs of John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham (c.1433 – 1501). Sir John Arundell was made a Knight of the Bath when the future King Henry VIII was created Duke of York in 1494, and led troops against the Cornish rebels in 1497 and in France in 1513, where he was made a knight banneret at the siege of Therouanne. He was appointed a justice in Cornwall in 1509, served on numerous commissions in the West Country, and was appointed Receiver of the Duchy of Cornwall by 1508. In 1539 he was appointed to the Council of the West.; ; ; .
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On 30 January 1388 Charleton was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; a remarkable achievement considering he had no previous experience in the Court of Common Pleas. Charleton is not known to have been close to the Lords Appellant, who at that point controlled the government, but he was apparently close to William of Wykeham, which is the most likely explanation for his unexpected promotion. Charleton managed to stay relatively safe in the difficult early half of 1388; despite, due to his position, being involved in the Merciless Parliament which executed most of Richard II's court and senior advisers, but when Richard reasserted his authority in May 1389 Charleton was made a Knight banneret. Charleton attended at least seven of the eight Parliaments between February 1388 and January 1395, with the records for that in September 1388 not surviving, and on each occasion served as a Trier of Petitions.
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The Battle of Dettingen is notable for two things: it was the last time a British monarch personally led his troops into battle, and the last time a serving soldier was knighted on the battlefield. Tom Brown was knighted as a Knight Banneret by the King at the end of the battle for his actions, as noted in The London Magazine, and Monthly Chronologer as "the Trooper who retook the Standard from the French". This is believed to be the last time a sovereign conferred the title Knight Bannerets to troops on the field of battle. It is recorded that the King created sixteen Knights Bannerets on the battlefield by two sources: a diary entry by Miss Gertrude Savile, which states "This honour had been laid aside since James I, when Baronets were instituted",The Complete Peerage (1913) by George Cokayne and a news magazine published in the same year as the battle.
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Peter Falck was born around 1468 in Fribourg, Switzerland, and grew up in a family of notaries and city clerks.Unless otherwise indicated, the biographical information is quoted from After the death of his father Bernhard (1480), he was sent to Alsace (probably to Kaysersberg) to train in a notarial practice. Upon his return to Fribourg, he entered into local politics. A citizen of Fribourg, he was elected to the Council of Two Hundred (1493), and to the Council of Sixty (1494). Alongside his work as a notary, he pursued a military and administrative career: court clerk (1493–1505), Landrichter (associate judge at a Landgericht), 1502–1504), first bailiff of Villarepos (1503), bailiff of Morat (1505-1510), where he settled with his wife Anna von Garmiswil († 1518) and their daughter Ursula; banneret of the Bourg district (1510-1511); burgomaster of Fribourg (1511-1514); lieutenant-bailiff (1514), and finally Schultheiss bailiff (vice- governor; 1516–1519).
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The Norman French branch of the de Livet family counts among its members early knights (chevaliers), church officials (including Guillaume de Livet, a judge at the trial of Joan of Arc),Judges, Trial of Joan of Arc Canon of Rouen Robert de Livet (who excommunicated King Henry V of England during his siege of Rouen, after which de Livet was imprisoned for five years in England) chevalier banneret Jean de Livet (standard bearer to King Philip II of France in 1215) and early Crusaders. Many de Livet family members were associated with the Knights Hospitallers, a medieval chivalric order founded to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land. The de Livets were among the ancient noble families (noblesse ancienne, or Noblesse d'épée) of France.Role Normands, Nobiliaire universel de France: ou Recueil général des généalogies historiques des maisons nobles de ce royaume, Volume 6, Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais, Réimprimé à la Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, Paris, 1874 The family's name appears in the earliest records of Normandy.
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Jewers, 1881 On the restoration of the church later that century, the chapel being re-pewed, they were removed to their present position, which is an unfortunate selection, as it subjects them to a large amount of wear from the feet of persons passing over them, they being on the floor of the nave immediately below the chancel steps.Jewers, 1881 The slab is now the southernmost of two and measures 7 feet 4 inches by 3 feet 9 inches ; around it, 3 inches from the edge, is a plain fillet of brass bearing this inscription, partly missing, on a ledger- line:Jewers, 1881 > John Arundell Knyght of ye Bath and Knyght Banneret Recey(ver of) ye Duchye > of Cornwall first ma(ryed ye Lady) Elizabeth Grey daughter to the Lorde > Marquis of Dorset & (Catherine) daughter of Syr Thomas Gr(enville Knyght & > dyed ye ey)ght of ffebruary the xxxvi yere of the reigne of Kyng Henry the > eyght An° Domini 1545 and ye yere of his age (71Byrne, vol.1, dates his life > 1474–1545, p.307) The brass bearing those parts of the inscription enclosed in brackets has been lost.
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