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Pages in category "English knights" ... Edward Burgh (knight) Thomas Butler (MP for Gloucestershire) Ambrose Button; John Byron (died 1450) John Byron (died 1567)
Thereby writers would seek connection to the ancient writers by taking up surnames or international pen names. We encounter names that follow naming conventions of those ancient languages, especially Latin and Greek, so the occasional Greek names for the same function are also included here.
Listed here are those dubbed "knight banneret" in England. Under English custom the rank of knight banneret could only be conferred by the sovereign on the field of battle. There were some technical exceptions to this; when his standard was on the field of battle he could be regarded as physically present though he was not.
Grindlay is a toponymic surname arising from the combination of the Anglo-Saxon words grēne or grynde and leāh or leā, meaning "green clearing" or "valley clearing". [1] [27] [28] [29] Traditionally held to have arisen in Northumbria, [30] [31] [32] modern scholarship suggests the name may instead derive from medieval woodland clearance in the former Forest of Arden in the English Midlands ...
Savage (French: le Sauvage, Latin: Silvaticus) is an Anglo-Norman surname which was used by several English and Anglo-Irish knightly or gentry families, several of whom were politically important in England or Ireland. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives specific articles for the following prominent branches:
The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III of England in 1348. Dates shown are of nomination or installation; coloured rows indicate sovereigns, princes of Wales, medieval ladies, modern royal knights and ladies, and stranger knights and ladies, none of whom counts toward the 24-member limit.