banneret
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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
At the battle of Edge Hill he retook the standard from the Cromwellians, and for this act of personal valor he was made a knight banneret by the king on the field.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
The number of men at arms, whom a banneret ought to command, was properly fifty.
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
In England that of a duke was seven yards in length, of a banneret four and a half, and of a knight-bachelor four yards.
From Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. by Andrew Macgeorge
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