Listed here are those
dubbed "
knight banneret" in
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
.
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. His proxy could be regarded as a sufficient substitution for his presence.
Edward III
Battle of Crécy
The Battle of Crécy took place on 26 August 1346 in northern France between a French army commanded by King PhilipVI and an English army led by King EdwardIII. The French attacked the English while they were traversing northern France du ...
*26 August 1346,
Sir John de Lisle, of Rougemont, Devon – by writ
*1346 Giles dit Paonet de Roet with one or two esquires; a Guyenne Herald and household knight of Edward III.
*1348, Sir Henry de Braylesford, of Brailsford, Derbyshire. He was nominated to represent
Stafford, serving under
William de Clinton, 1st Earl of Huntingdon
William de Clinton, 1st Earl of Huntingdon (c.1304 – 31 October 1354) and Lord High Admiral, was the younger son of John de Clinton, 1st Baron Clinton (d.1312/13) of Maxstoke Castle, Warwickshire, and Ida de Odingsells, the granddaughter of ...
until he returned home by royal letter of protection because he was invalided out of the King's division. He was exonerated from assessment of his lands in Derby and Stafford on 10 October 1349.
Battle of Nájera
The Battle of Nájera, also known as the Battle of Navarrete, was fought on 3 April 1367 to the northeast of Nájera, in the province of La Rioja, Castile. It was an episode of the first Castilian Civil War which confronted King Peter of Casti ...
*1367,
Sir
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...
John Chandos
Sir John Chandos, Viscount of Saint-Sauveur in the Cotentin, Constable of Aquitaine, Seneschal of Poitou, (c. 1320 – 31 December 1369) was a medieval English knight who hailed from Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire. Chandos was a close friend of ...
during the
Spanish Campaign led by the
Edward, the Black Prince
Edward of Woodstock, known to history as the Black Prince (15 June 1330 – 8 June 1376), was the eldest son of King Edward III of England, and the heir apparent to the English throne. He died before his father and so his son, Richard II, suc ...
(eldest son of
King Edward III
Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377), also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from January 1327 until his death in 1377. He is noted for his military success and for restoring ...
and father to
King Richard II
Richard II (6 January 1367 – ), also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399. He was the son of Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales, and Joan, Countess of Kent. Richard's father d ...
).
Edward IV
Knights banneret created by
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Knights banneret created in Scotland by Richard III of England">Richard, Duke of Gloucester, probably on the conclusion of Treaty of Fotheringhay (11 June 1482) between the Duke of Gloucester, Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, Alexander, Duke of Albany and the Scottish nobles near Edinburgh.
Knights banneret created by Richard, Duke of Gloucester, in Scotland at
Hutton Field beside Berwick, probably at the
surrendering of Berwick to the English, which took place on 24 August 1482.
*22 August 1482, Thomas Pilkington.
*22 August 1482, Robert Ryder.
Henry VII
Knights banneret created by
King Henry VII
Henry VII (28 January 1457 – 21 April 1509) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizure of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death in 1509. He was the first monarch of the House of Tudor.
Henry's mother, Margaret Beaufo ...
at the
battle of Stoke Field the first three were appointed before the battle and the other eleven after:
Knights banneret created by King Henry VII after the
battle of Deptford Bridge (also called the
battle of Blackheath) which took place during the
Cornish Rebellion of 1497.
Knights banneret created in Scotland by
Thomas, Earl of Surrey, King Henry VII's lieutenant in the north, on or before 30 September 1497:
Henry VIII
Knights banneret created by
King Henry VIII possibly at the
battle of the Spurs
The Battle of the Spurs or (Second) Battle of Guinegate (, "Day of the Spurs"; ''deuxième bataille de Guinegatte'') took place on 16 August 1513. It formed a part of the War of the League of Cambrai, during the Italian Wars. Henry VIII and ...
in
France
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(16 August 1513) but they may have been appointed the following year.
Knight banneret created at
Leith
Leith (; gd, Lìte) is a port area in the north of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, founded at the mouth of the Water of Leith. In 2021, it was ranked by ''Time Out'' as one of the top five neighbourhoods to live in the world.
The earliest ...
in Scotland on Sunday 11 May 1544, by
Edward, Earl of Hertford, the King's lieutenant, at the burning of Edinburgh, Leith and elsewhere.
* 11 May 1544,
Edward, Lord Clinton (later Earl of Lincoln).
Knight banneret created by the
Earl of Hertford
Earl () is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. The title originates in the Old English word ''eorl'', meaning "a man of noble birth or rank". The word is cognate with the Scandinavian form ''jarl'', and meant "chieftain", particular ...
, the King's lieutenant, being then encamped at our
Lady Church by Norham Castle on his coming home after he had been in Scotland 15 days.
* 23 September 1545,
John Nevill, 4th Lord Latimer.
Edward VI
Knights banneret were created at the camp beside
Roxburgh
Roxburgh () is a civil parish and formerly a royal burgh, in the historic county of Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. It was an important trading burgh in High Medieval to early modern Scotland. In the Middle Ages it had at leas ...
(18–25 September 1547), in Scotland, during the first year of the reign of
King Edward VI
Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine. Edward was the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour and the first E ...
. by the "hands of the high and mighty Prince
Edward, Duke of Somerset, Lieutenant-General of all the King's armies by land and sea, and Governor of his Royal person and Protector of all his realms, dominions and subjects".
*18–25 September 1547,
Francys Bryan.
*18–25 September 1547,
Ralph Sadler
Sir Ralph Sadler or Sadleir PC, Knight banneret (1507 – 30 March 1587) was an English statesman, who served Henry VIII as Privy Councillor, Secretary of State and ambassador to Scotland. Sadler went on to serve Edward VI. Having signed the d ...
.
*18–25 September 1547,
Raufe Vane.
*18–25 September 1547,
William, 13th Lord Grey de Wilton.
Charles I
King Charles I created several knights banneret after the
battle of Edgehill
The Battle of Edgehill (or Edge Hill) was a pitched battle of the First English Civil War. It was fought near Edge Hill and Kineton in southern Warwickshire on Sunday, 23 October 1642.
All attempts at constitutional compromise between ...
(1642) including:
*
Thomas Strickland, of Sizergh for gallantry.
*
John Smith for rescuing the
Royal Standard
In heraldry and vexillology, a heraldic flag is a flag containing coats of arms, heraldic badges, or other devices used for personal identification.
Heraldic flags include banners, standards, pennons and their variants, gonfalons, guidons, and ...
under enemy fire.
Great Britain and the United Kingdom
Whether any appointments as
knight banneret were formally made after the
Act of Union 1707 is debated by historians and there is no general agreement.
George II
George Cokayne
George Edward Cokayne, (29 April 1825 – 6 August 1911), was an English genealogist and long-serving herald at the College of Arms in London, who eventually rose to the rank of Clarenceux King of Arms. He wrote such authoritative and standa ...
notes in ''The Complete Peerage'' (1913) that
King George II revived the honour when he created sixteen knights banneret on the field of the
battle of Dettingen
The Battle of Dettingen (german: Schlacht bei Dettingen) took place on 27 June 1743 during the War of the Austrian Succession at Dettingen in the Electorate of Mainz, Holy Roman Empire (now Karlstein am Main in Bavaria). It was fought between a ...
on 27 June 1743:
Although Cokayne's source for this, a diary entry by Miss Gertrude Savile, states "This honour had been laid aside since James I, when Baronets were instituted", which contradicts other sources, a news magazine published in the same year as the battle recorded the honours.
George III
Several sources, including
Edward Brenton (1828) and
William James
William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.
James is considered to be a leading thinker of the lat ...
(1827), record that Captains
Trollope and
Fairfax were honoured as bannerets by
King George III
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Br ...
for their actions during the
battle of Camperdown (1797). However, these awards were never recorded in ''
The London Gazette
''The London Gazette'' is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are ...
'' and is much more likely that these knighthoods, which first appear in formal records in December 1797 without their nature being specified,
were as
knights bachelor
The title of Knight Bachelor is the basic rank granted to a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not inducted as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system. Knights Bachelor are t ...
.
Victoria
On 19 August 1843 James Bombrain, Inspector-General of Coast Guard in Ireland (knighted by the
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (), or more formally Lieutenant General and General Governor of Ireland, was the title of the chief governor of Ireland from the Williamite Wars of 1690 until the Partition of Ireland in 1922. This spanned the King ...
, on board a cruiser in Kingstown Harbour, after an inspection of the Irish squadron of revenue cruisers at Kingstown, Dublin, is erroneously supposed to have been a knight banneret in consequence of having been
knight
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood finds origins in the Gr ...
ed under the Royal Standard).
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External links
''Burke's World Orders of Knighthood and Merit''
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English knights
banneret
A knight banneret, sometimes known simply as banneret, was a medieval knight ("a commoner of rank") who led a company of troops during time of war under his own banner (which was square-shaped, in contrast to the tapering standard or the penn ...