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Modernized name Names in medieval languages Name meaning and/or identification Notes Hald (North and South) Old English: Hæleþan: The Hæleþan were a people mentioned in Widsith, line 81. The name Halla herred is attested in the Doomesday book of Valdemar II of Denmark for an area at the Randers Fjord in north Jutland.
French troops being attacked by the Tard-Venus free company during the 1362 Battle of Brignais.. A free company (sometimes called a great company or, in French, grande compagnie) was an army of mercenaries between the 12th and 14th centuries recruited by private employers during wars.
A military adventurer who made his fortune and name in India with the Marathas. Jacob Van Braam: 1729–1792 1741–1779 United Kingdom: A Dutch sword master and mercenary in British service. An officer under Lawrence Washington, he is also credited with training his younger half-brother George Washington. George Hanger, 4th Baron Coleraine ...
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This is a list of guilds in the United Kingdom. It includes guilds of merchants and other trades, both those relating to specific trades, and the general guilds merchant in Glasgow and Preston. No religious guilds survive, and the guilds of freemen in some towns and cities are not listed. Almost all guilds were founded by the end of the 17th ...
Given as the third of the minor guilds in 1236, and third of the intermediate guilds in 1285, it sneaked up and climbed up one position, over the shoemakers in 1415. [23] Arte dei Calzolai: Shoemakers: Pre-1236 [24] 10 (1415) 9 (1236) Long the second minor guild, the shoemakers' guild slipped one position in 1415, giving way to the Fabbri ...
The term "corporation" was never used outside of Italy (Corporazioni delle arti e dei mestieri). In other countries, they were called métiers ("craft bodies") in France, guilds in England, Zünfte in Germany, gremios in Castile, gremis in Catalonia and València, grémios in Portugal, συντεχνία in Greece, and with others denominations.
The medieval guild was established by charters or letters patent or similar authority by the city or the ruler and normally held a monopoly on trade in its craft within the city in which it operated: handicraft workers were forbidden by law to run any business if they were not members of a guild, and only masters were allowed to be members of a ...