Timeline for What do we call a person in a war who holds the army's flag?
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| May 8, 2017 at 11:28 | comment | added | user28434 |
@GMasucci, you're confusing bannerman with bannerlord or banneret.
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| May 8, 2017 at 0:42 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @Emil: If you get your "historical jargon" from a piece of fiction set in an entirely different world, you really only have yourself to blame. | |
| S May 5, 2017 at 12:21 | history | suggested | Pharap | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
A Bannerman is different from a standard-bearer, but still a valid answer
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| May 5, 2017 at 11:08 | comment | added | Pharap | @Emil And the moral of this story is to not treat magical fiction set in a bygone era as tool for learning historical terminology :P | |
| May 4, 2017 at 8:58 | comment | added | GMasucci | A bannerman is not a standard-bearer: but rather a vassal (most of these terms date back to medieval times when heraldry was a major part of ennobled/military life) | |
| May 3, 2017 at 14:18 | comment | added | Emil | Note that this might be confusing to those of us who now get their historical jargon mostly from reading "A Song of Ice and Fire". :-) The word bannerman has a different meaning there. | |
| May 3, 2017 at 12:38 | history | answered | PCSgtL | CC BY-SA 3.0 |