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Definition of Bannerets
1. banneret [n] - See also: banneret
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bannerets
Literary usage of Bannerets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"From 1347 to 1387, the three bannerets nominated twenty ... by the chancellor,
the four bannerets, and the members of ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In Scotland even as late as the reign of James VI., lords of parliament were
always created bannerets as well as barons at their investiture, ..."
3. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1899)
"bannerets had so far been considered as commoners some years before that ...
The distinction, however, between barons and bannerets died away by degrees. ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"... the Counts of Alencon, Harcourt, Flanders, Blois, Aumale, and Severs, eighty
bannerets, and perhaps about thirty thousand men of lower rank. ..."
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