banneret
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Lavater, already perhaps despairing of success, but resolved to maintain his reputation for personal courage, likewise spoke in favor of haste, whilst the gray-haired banneret, Tœnig, withdrew his proposal to halt.
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Johann Jakob Hottinger
He received several munificent grants of Crown land, and was created chief baron of the exchequer and a knight banneret.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
Scrope, chief justice of K.B., was made a banneret in 14 E. III.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
In the universal chaos, in the general terror, people were scattered like leaves in a tempest, and no man knew what had become of the banneret of Orsha.
From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Froissart relates the manner in which the celebrated Sir John Chandos was made banneret by the Black Prince before the battle of Navarete.
From Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. by Andrew Macgeorge
