Talk:Knight banneret

The last knight banneret

According to different sources several knight banneret were granted at the battle of Edgehill. And The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 195 p. 46 suggests that there were later creations. -- PBS (talk) 13:15, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

A slightly more reliable source that gives the same information as the one Gentleman's magazine is The British herald; or, Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility ... by Thomas Robson (1830), p. 78 but Robson explains that the later awards were not done in the same old customary way.

Another man the sources mention as being awarded the Knight banneret, by Charles I at the Battle of Edgehill is William Huddleston of Millom.[1]

Sir William Huddleston, a zealous and devoted royalist, raised a regiment of horsemen for the service of the sovereign, as also a regiment of footmen, and the latter he maintained at his own expense. 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.[2]

-- PBS (talk) 14:07, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

The Lysons, in their Magna Britannia, Cumberland, p. 130, say that William Huddleston of Millom was made Knight Banneret at Edgehill for recovering the royal standard. Collier (Dictionary, sv "Edgehill") says that John Smith recovered it, and was made Knight Banneret after the battle. Which is right? ... KNOWLES (Notes and Queries (1872) p. 47)

-- PBS (talk) 14:32, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

The wiki article on the battle of Dettingen states the following - "During the battle a private soldier Tom Brown in Bland's Dragoons rescued the regiment's standard, receiving eight cuts in his face, head, and neck, as well as two bullets in his back and a cut across his forehead that went down to his right eyebrow. On the battlefield he was knighted as a Knight banneret by King George, becoming the last man to be so honoured", and in fact there is a page for Tom Brown which lists him as a Knight banneret, although he is absent from this page and the lists. Is that incorrect, or should he be added to this page? Dave Briggs (talk) 16:24, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Removed Error

I removed the description of a knight as "a commoner of rank". This is patently incorrect: knights were most definitely gentry (in England) and nobles (on the continent)--not commoners. A commoner of rank would be a sergeant, yeoman, or franklin. 2601:5C7:200:580:A405:4BFE:276:92A7 (talk) 17:18, 15 November 2023 (UTC)