Crossword clues for banneret
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Banneret \Ban"ner*et\, n.[OE. baneret, OF. baneret, F. banneret; properly a dim. of OF. baniere. See Banner.]
Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.
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A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.
Note: The usual mode of conferring the rank on the field of battle was by cutting or tearing off the point of the pennon or pointed flag on the spear of the candidate, thereby making it a banner.
A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
A small banner.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, an order of knighthood, originally in reference to one who could lead his men into battle under his own banner. Later it meant one who received rank for valiant deeds done in the king's presence in battle. Also "a small banner" (c.1300).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A noble, knighted feudal lord who has the right to lead his vassals to battle under his own banner 2 A small banner. 3 (context military historical English) A (l/en: proposed) but (l/en: unadopted) senior commissioned (l/en: rank) of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Air%20Force equivalent to (l/en: group captain). 4 A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
WordNet
n. a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command [syn: knight banneret, knight of the square flag]
Wikipedia
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.
Banneret may refer to:
- Banneret (Rome), one of twelve 14th-century Roman district magistrates.
- Knight banneret, or a banneret, originated as a feudal rank awarded by the English king to a knight (of a common not noble rank), who led a company of troops during time of war under his own banner that the rank allowed to be square-shaped, in contrast to the tapering standard or the pennon flown by the lower-ranking knights.
Usage examples of "banneret".
Junior Knight-brother Radu reporting to Banneret Dusburg as commanded.
The guard would inform Banneret Dusburg that his minion had returned, and Dusburg would either send him out again or advise Banneret Catavolinos that he could have his subordinate back.
Cantor was the lowest conjuring rank, outranking banneret within the monastery.
Royal Highness, I am Banneret Helmut Schwartz, sent to help you out of this wilderness.
The Banneret was an officer entrusted with the keeping of the State Banner, and such others as were taken in battle.
If you would be able to say that you have in your service Sir Gervas Jerome, knight banneret, and sole owner of Beacham Ford Park, with a rent-roll of four thousand good pounds a year, he is now up for sale, and will be knocked down to the bidder who pleases him best.
Kotara tensed, for she recognized the fiend for what it was, a knight banneret in the hosts of darkness.
His Majesty made him a Knight Banneret, under the royal ensign and on the deck of his own ship, as was done with some of the old admirals.
He moreover enjoyed the dignity of castellain and chief bannerer or banneret of London.
There is one other point worthy of remark, touching the office of chief banneret, and that is that on the occasion of any siege undertaken by the London forces, the castellain was to receive as his fee the niggardly sum of one hundred shillings for his trouble, and no more.
Behind these came two pursuivants-at-arms in tabards, and following them a party of a dozen more bannerets and barons.
Guidons and bannerets fluttered like bright butterflies above those mailed men of old.
Bek saw them falling into disorder and tried to have his bannerets call them back to re-form before charging, but his words of caution fell on deaf ears.
Bek saw them falling into disorder and tried to have his bannerets call them back to reform before charging, but his words of caution fell on deaf ears.
Out of the radiance around it great flames gathered, shook into sight with streamings and pennonings, in bannerets and bandrols, leaped upon the crystal pipes, and merged within them.