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The gentry ranked above the agricultural sector's middle class: the larger tenant farmers, who rented land from the landowners, and yeoman farmers, who were defined as "a person qualified by possessing free land of forty shillings annual [feudal] value, and who can serve on juries and vote for a Knight of the Shire. He is sometimes described as ...
Wolfram von Eschenbach and his squire (Codex Manesse, 14th century) A squire cleaning armour A squire helping his knight, in a historical reenactment in 2009 A squire holds the warhorse of his knight, detail from monument to Sir Richard Stapledon (d.1326), Exeter Cathedral. [1] In the Middle Ages, a squire was the shield- or armour-bearer of a ...
In post-classical history, an affinity was a collective name for the group of (usually) men whom a lord gathered around himself in his service; it has been described by one modern historian as "the servants, retainers, and other followers of a lord", [1] and as "part of the normal fabric of society". [2]
A squire is a feudal follower of a knight, a lord of the manor, a member of the post-feudal landed gentry, or a modern informal appellation deriving from this. Squire may also refer to: People
The iconic Manchester bands that made them have long since feuded themselves to death – leaving this duo to hook up after Squire joined Gallagher’s band for a guest slot at Knebworth in 2022.
Squires were men-at-arms in the service of knights in feudal or medieval times. Squires may also refer to: Squires (surname) Squires, Missouri, United States; Canadian Squires, a band that became The Band; Columbian Squires, an international youth fraternity; Jersey Squires, a defunct basketball team; Petrolia Squires, a Canadian ice hockey team
A limited liability company associated with D'Allessandro purchased Squires for $885,000 in August. He also co-owns Sorelle and a handful of other South Shore restaurants, and runs the ...
There are many references to the poem in the works of Edmund Spenser, Beaumont and Fletcher, and other Elizabethan writers – Shakespeare, for example, alludes to the poem when, in Henry V, Act V, sc. i, Fluellen says "You called me yesterday mountain-squire, but I will make you to-day a squire of low degree" – but as the 17th century advanced the poem fell into neglect. [10]