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Esquire (/ ɪ ˈ s k w aɪər /, [1] US also / ˈ ɛ s k w aɪər /; [2] abbreviated Esq.) [3] is usually a courtesy title.In the United Kingdom, esquire historically was a title of respect accorded to men of higher social rank, particularly members of the landed gentry above the rank of gentleman and below the rank of knight.
Laird is a Scottish hereditary feudal dignity ranking below a Scottish Baron but above an Esquire; Esquire is a rank of gentry originally derived from Squire and indicating the status of an attendant to a knight, an apprentice knight, or a manorial lord; [42] it ranks below Knight (or in Scotland below Laird) but above Gentleman. [e] [f]
The Queen of Hearts is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.She is a childish, foul-tempered monarch whom Carroll himself describes as "a blind fury", and who is quick to give death sentences at even the slightest of offenses.
At least two notable late-medieval gentlemen are recorded contemporaneously as refusing knighthood, declaring that to be an "Esquire of the Body" was a far-greater honour. In the post-medieval world, the title of esquire came to belong to all men of the higher landed gentry; an esquire ranked socially above a gentleman but below a knight. In ...
An Esquire of the Body was a personal attendant and courtier to the Kings of England during the Late Middle Ages and the early modern period. [a] The Knight of the Body was a related position, apparently sometimes merely an "Esquire" who had been knighted, as many were. The distinction between the two roles is not entirely clear, and probably ...
There has been a lot of confusion between him and his kinsman by the same name, but in his statement in Wyatt's rebellion in 1554 this Anthony Knyvett signs himself Anthony Knyvet, esq. [12] Hence, he was never knighted, and all references of the period to a Sir Anthony Knyvet(t) or Anthony Knyvet, knight, must necessarily be the other one ...
The Knave of Hearts appears in two episodes of Once Upon a Time: the season one episode "Hat Trick" and the season two episode "Queen of Hearts" where he is played by Paul McGillion. He takes the White Rabbit's place as the herald of the Queen of Hearts, who to mask her identity communicates with him by whispering through a horn.
In the 1999 film the king is seen sleeping in the forest as he does in the book. It is also revealed that the Red King is the King of Hearts's brother.; In the 2010 Alice in Wonderland film, the Red King was revealed to have been decapitated by the Red Queen out of the fear that he would have left her for the White Queen if she had not had him executed.