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Definition of Banneret
1. Noun. A knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command.
Definition of Banneret
1. n. Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.
Definition of Banneret
1. Noun. A noble, knighted feudal lord who has the right to lead his vassals to battle under his own banner ¹
2. Noun. A small banner ¹
3. Noun. (military historical) A (proposed) but (unadopted) senior commissioned (rank) of the Royal Air Force equivalent to (group captain). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Banneret
1. a small banner [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Banneret
Literary usage of Banneret
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"... ana of the steaming dishes which she lost no time in setting before us.
xin OF SIR GERVAS JEROME, KNIGHT banneret OF THE COUNTY OF SURREY THE inn was ..."
2. The History of the Crusades: For the Recovery and Possession of the Holy Land by Charles Mills (1844)
"The privileges of a knight-banneret were considerable. ... This learned commentator
seems inclined to confound knights-banneret with barons, chivalry with ..."
3. The History of Chivalry; Or, Knighthood and Its Times by Charles Mills (1844)
"The privileges of a knight-banneret were considerable. ... This learned commentator
seems inclined to confound knights-banneret with barons, chivalry with ..."
4. The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development by William Stubbs (1903)
"Dignity of banneret. banneret not a rank of peerage. Another curious point, wliich
more directly affects the house of lords, is the dignity of banneret, ..."
5. Origines Patriciae, Or, A Deduction of European Titles of Nobility and by Robert Thomas Hampson (1846)
"These are banneret, which manifestly belongs to the class of ... With respect to
the former, which, from the circum- banneret. stances of its creation, ..."
6. Some Feudal Coats of Arms from Heraldic Rolls 1298-1418: Illustrated with by Joseph Foster (1902)
"... Sir Henry de, banneret (brother of ... John de, banneret, liaron 1299 —bore
at the siege of ..."
7. Transactions by East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society (1903)
"BIOGRAPHY OF SIR EDWARD DENNY, Knight banneret, of Bishop's Stortford, Herts ;
Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth, Governor of Kerry and ..."
8. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"Worcester, and Catherine Lygon, anil in reward of his military prowess in Ireland,
was created first a knight banneret, and afterwards a peer of Ireland, ..."
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