List of knights banneret of England

This is a list of men dubbed a knight banneret in England. It was an honour usually bestowed by a king after a battle, but the honour was occasionally bestowed at other times and by other men.

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Edward III

Battle of Crecy

Battle of Poitiers

Edward IV

Knights banneret made by Edward IV on that voyage and late journey; whose pennons and standards (in the difference of pennons) were rent by the King's commandment.

  • 2–21 May 1471, Thomas Grey.[6][7]
  • 2–21 May 1471, Richard Hastings — afterwards Lord Welles.[6][7]
  • 2–21 May 1471, Johm Courteney.[6][7]
  • 2–21 May 1471, Nicholas Latymer (or Lawrence).[6][7]
  • 5 May 1471, Rauf Hastings — Then sheriff of Northamptonshire.[6][7]
  • 2–21 May 1471, Roger Toketts (or Rogers).[8][7]
  • 2–21 May 1471, John Stanley.[8][7]
  • 2–21 May 1471, Symon Mountford.[8][7]
  • 2–21 May 1471, John Nemmingham.[8][7]
  • 2–21 May 1471, William Stanley.[8][7]
  • 2–21 May 1471, Thomas Bering.[8]
  • 2–21 May 1471, William Stamford.[8]
  • 2–21 May 1471, —— Aberdenny.[8]

Kinghts banneret made in Scotland by the Richard, Duke of Gloucester [probably on the conclusion of Treaty of Fotheringhay (11 June 1482) between the Duke of Gloucester, Alexander, Duke of Albany and the Scottish nobles near Edinburgh][9]

  • 24 July 1482, Edward Wydevill (Wood vile).[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, Walter Herbert.[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, Herbert Greystoke.[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, John Elrington.[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, Henry Percy.[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, William Cascoigne.[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, Edmond Hastings.[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, James Tyrell.[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, James Danby.[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, Hugh Hastings.[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, Raug Asheton.[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, William Redman.[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, Richard Radclif.[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, Thomas Halyverer.[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, Bryan Stafleton.[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, John Savage.[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, William Evers.[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, Piers Middelton.[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, Christopher Warde.[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, Stephen Hamerton.[9][10]
  • 24 July 1482, Thomas Tempest.[9][11]
  • 24 July 1482, John Everingham.[12][11]
  • 24 July 1482, Robert Harrington.[12][11]
  • 24 July 1482, Thomas Broughton.[12][11]
  • 24 July 1482, John Aske.[12][11]
  • 24 July 1482, Thomas Grey of Warke.[12][11]
  • 24 July 1482, Rauf Woderington.[12][11]
  • 24 July 1482, Roger Thorneton.[12][11]
  • 24 July 1482, Thomas Molyneux.[12][11]
  • 24 July 1482, Alexander Houghton.[12][11]
  • 24 July 1482, Piers A. Legh.[12][11]
  • 24 July 1482, Edward Stanley.[12][11]
  • 24 July 1482, John Grey of Wilton.[12][11]
  • 24 July 1482, Richard Hodleston.[12][11]

Knights banneret made by Richard, Duke of Gloucester, in Scotland at Hoton Field beside Berwick [probably at the surrendering of Berwick to the English, which took place on the 24 August 1482].[13][lower-alpha 1]

Henry VII

Knights banneret made by Henry VII at the Battle of Stoke Field the first three were made before the battle and the other eleven after:[16]

  • 16 June 1487, Gilbert Talbott — before the battle of Stoke Field.[16]
  • 16 June 1487, John Cheyny — before the battle of Stoke Field.[16]
  • 16 June 1487, William Stouner — before the battle of Stoke Field.[16]
  • 16 June 1487, John Arundell.[16]
  • 16 June 1487, Thomas Cokesey (alias Grevell).[16]
  • 16 June 1487, Edmonde Bedingfeilde (beningfield).[16]
  • 16 June 1487, John Fortescue.[16]
  • 16 June 1487, Humfrey Stanley.[16]
  • 16 June 1487, James Blount.[16]
  • 16 June 1487, Richard Delabere.[16]
  • 16 June 1487, John Mortemer.[16]
  • 16 June 1487, William Troutbecke.[16]
  • 16 June 1487, Richard Crofts.[16]
  • 16 June 1487, James Baskerville.[16]

Knights banneret made by Henry VII after the Battle of Deptford Bridge (also called the Battle of Blackheath) which took place during the Cornish Rebellion of 1497.[17]

  • 17 June 1497, Thomas Lovell (Lovett).[17][18]
  • 17 June 1497, Charles Somersett.[17][18]
  • 17 June 1497, Reginald Bray.[17][18]
  • 17 June 1497, Richard Guylforde.[17][18]
  • 17 June 1497, Robert Harecourt.[17][18]
  • 17 June 1497, Res ap Thomas.[18]
  • 17 June 1497, Henry Wiloughby.[18]
  • 17 June 1497, Richard Fits Lewis.[18]
  • 17 June 1497, John Saint John.[18]
  • 17 June 1497, Tomast Greene.[18]
  • 17 June 1497, Robert Broughton.[18]
  • 17 June 1497, Sir Nicholas Vaulx.[18]
  • 17 June 1497, William Tyrwhitte.[18]
  • 17 June 1497, Thomas Tyrell.[18]

Recorded in the same manuscript were two more men who were dubbed knight banneret by Henry VII at the foot of London Bridge as he entered London after the battle:

  • 17 June 1497, John H—.[18]
  • 17 June 1497, Morgan —.[18]

Knights banneret made in Scotland by Thomas, Earl of Surrey, the King Henry VII's lieutenant in the north, on or before 30 September 1497:[19]

  • 30 September 1497, William Gascoigne.[20][21]
  • 30 September 1497, John Nevill.[20][21]
  • 30 September 1497, John Hastinges.[20][21]
  • 30 September 1497, Thomas Darcy.[20][21]
  • 30 September 1497, Walter Gryffith.[20][21]
  • 30 September 1497, Rauf Ryder.[20][21]
  • 30 September 1497, Thomas Worthley.[20][21]
  • 30 September 1497, Roger Bellingham.[20][21]
  • 30 September 1497, William Tyler.[20][21]
  • 30 September 1497, Edward Pykeringe.[20][21]

Henry VIII

Knights banneret, made by King Henry VIII possibly at the Battle of the Spurs in France (16 August 1513) but they may have been made the followin year.[22] [lower-alpha 2]

  • 16 August ?1513, John Peche (Peachy).[22][23]
  • 16 August ?1513, Egburt Brandon.[22][23]
  • 16 August ?1513, Henry Guildford.[22][23]
  • 16 August ?1513, Edward Poyninges.[22][23]
  • 16 August ?1513, Andrew Wyndesore — treasurer of the King's Middleward of battle.[22][23]
  • 16 August ?1513, John Reynsford.[22][23]
  • 16 August ?1513, Henry Wyatt.[22][23]
  • 16 August ?1513, John Seymour.[22][23]
  • 16 August ?1513, John Awdeley.[22][24]
  • 16 August ?1513, Richard Carew.[22][23]
  • 16 August ?1513, Anthony Utright.[22][24][lower-alpha 3]
  • 16 August ?1513, Thomas West.[22][24]
  • 16 August ?1513, Robert Bymoke — treasurer of the King's Rearward.[22][24]
  • 16 August ?1513, John Husse (Hussey).[22][24]
  • 16 August ?1513, John Arundell of the West.[22][24]
  • 16 August ?1513, Richard Wentworthe.[22][24]
  • 16 August ?1513, Randolf Brereton — marshal of the Rearward.[22][24]
  • 16 August ?1513, Piers Edgecombe.[22][24]
  • 16 August ?1513, Henry Clyfforde.[22][24]
  • 16 August ?1513, Thomas Cornewall.[22][24]
  • 16 August ?1513, Thomas Leighton.[22][24]
  • 16 August ?1513, Thomas Blount.[22][24]
  • 16 August ?1513, John Aston.[22][24]
  • 16 August ?1513, William Perpount.[22][24]
  • 16 August ?1513, Henry Sacheverele.[22][24]
  • 16 August ?1513, George Holforde (Hallforth).[22][24]
  • 16 August ?1513, Henry Halsall.[22][24]
  • 16 August ?1513, George (John) Warbleton.[22][24]
  • 18 August
  • ?1513, Thomas Darcus (Darus — alias Denys, of Devonshire)[22] or Thomas Barnardiston.[24][lower-alpha 4]

Knight banneret made at Leith in Scotland on Sunday 11 May 1544, by Edward, Earl of Hertford, the King's lieutenant, at the burning of Edinburgh, Leith and others.[25]

Knight banneret made in Scotland by the Earl of Hertford, the King's lieutenant, being then encamped by our Lady Church by Norham Castle on his coming home after he had been in Scotland 15 days.[26]

Edward VI

Knights banneret were made in the camp beside Roxburgh (18–25 September 1547), in Scotland, in the first year of the reign of Edward VI. 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".[27]

Charles I

King Charles I created several knights banneret after the Battle of Edgehill (1642) including:[28]

Great Britain and the United Kingdom

Whether any bannerets were granted after the Act of Union 1707 is debated by historians and there is no general agreement.

George II

George Cokayne notes in The Complete Peerage (1913) that King George II revived the order when he created sixteen knights banneret on the field of the Battle of Dettingen on 27 June 1743:[29][lower-alpha 8]

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,[28] a news magazine published in the same year as the battle recorded the honours.[30]

George III

Several sources, including Edward Brenton (1828) and William James (1827),[31][32] record that captains Trollope and Fairfax and were honoured with bannerets by King George III for their actions during the Battle of Camperdown (1797). However, these awards were never recorded in The London Gazette and is much more likely that these knighthoods, which first appear in formal records in December 1797 without their nature being specified,[33] were as knights bachelor.[lower-alpha 9]

Victoria

On 19 August 1843 James Bombrain, inspector general of Coast Guard in Ireland (knighted by the lord lieutenant of Ireland, 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 knighted under the Royal Standard).[35]

Notes

  1. ↑ Shaw and Metcalfe also list more knights and bannerets made by Richard, Duke of Gloucester on 11 August, but fails to distinguish them from each other:[13][10]
    • 22 August 1482, William Darcy
    • 22 August 1482, John Melton.
    • 22 August 1482, John Savell.
    • 22 August 1482, Rauf Bulmer.
    • 22 August 1482, Rauf Bigod.
    • 22 August 1482, Raug Bowes (or Bowyer).
    • 22 August 1482, John Constable of Holdermess.
    • 22 August 1482, James Strangways.
    • 22 August 1482, Robert Middelton.
    • 22 August 1482, William Fitz William.
    • 22 August 1482, Thomas Fitz William.
    • 22 August 1482, Thomas Wortley.
    • 22 August 1482, James Danby.
    • 22 August 1482, Thomas Malyverer.
    • 22 August 1482, Rauf Fitz Randall.
    • 22 August 1482, Charles Pilkington.
    • 22 August 1482, Robert Waterton.
    • 22 August 1482, John Nevtll of Liverseege.
    • 22 August 1482, Richard Coigners of Cowton.
    • 22 August 1482, William Beckwithe.
  2. ↑ Shaw 1906, p. 26 notes Harl MS. 5177 says anno 5, 6 (Henry VIII 5th year started on 22 April 1513 and ended on 21 April 1514, so the date of 16 August was either 1513 or 1514 (See Regnal years of English monarchs))
  3. ↑ Utright can also be spelt Ughtred, Oughtred Owtred, Utreight (Shaw 1906, p. 231).
  4. ↑ Metcalfe describes Sir Thomas's coat of arms thus: Gules, a fess dancettée Ermin between three cross-crosslets fitchée Argent, – a bendlet sinister Or. Crest—A talbot's head Gules earned Argent gorged with a fess dancettée Ermine.[24]
  5. ↑ Shaw 1906, p. 54 notes that Edward, lord Clinton, is referred to as "chevalier" in April, 1536, when he was summoned to Parliament. The knight in the text could not possibly be his son Henry, as this latter was only about 4 years old in 1544, so possibly lord Edward Clinton was made a knight banneret in 1544.
  6. ↑ Shaw 1906, p. 57 notes John, lord Latimer is styled "chivaler" from at least 14 June 1543, in the writs summoning him to Parliament. Possibly he was made a knight banneret in 1545.
  7. ↑ Shaw 1906, p. 57 notes William, lord Grey of Wilton, is described as chivaler in the writs summoning him to Parliament from November 1529 onwards. Possibly he was made a knight banneret in 1547.
  8. ↑ 27 June 1743 was the date as it was recorded on the Continent using the Gregorian calendar, In Britain where the Julian calendar was in use the date was 16 June 1743 (see Old Style and New Style dates).
  9. ↑ "When the fleet returned to the Nore [George III] signified his intention of visiting it there, and Trollope, as the senior captain, was appointed to the Royal Charlotte yacht to bring him from Greenwich. The king accordingly embarked on 30 Oct.; but the wind came dead foul, and after two days the yacht had got no further than Gravesend. He therefore gave up the idea and returned to Greenwich, knighting Trollope on the quarterdeck of the Royal Charlotte before he landed. The accolade conferred ‘under the royal standard’ was spoken of as making Trollope a knight banneret, and was apparently so intended by the king; but it is said to have been afterwards decided [by the Privy Council], as a question of precedence, that a knight banneret could only be made on the field where a battle had actually been fought; or presumably, in the case of a naval officer, on the quarterdeck of one of the ships actually engaged".[34]
  1. ↑ Shaw 1906, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Wrottesley, George; British Library (1898), Crecy and Calais, from the original records in the Public record office, London: Harrison and Sons, OCLC 43086786
  3. ↑ Pipe Roll of 20 Edward III
  4. ↑ French Roll Edward III
  5. ↑ Memoranda Roll of 22 Edward III
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Shaw 1906, p. 15.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Metcalfe 1885, p. 4.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Shaw 1906, p. 16.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Shaw 1906, p. 17.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Metcalfe 1885, p. 6.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Metcalfe 1885, p. 7.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Shaw 1906, p. 18.
  13. 1 2 Shaw 1906, p. 20.
  14. 1 2 Shaw 1906, p. 21.
  15. 1 2 Metcalfe 1885, p. 5.
  16. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Shaw 1906, p. 24.
  17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Shaw 1906, p. 28.
  18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Metcalfe 1885, p. 27.
  19. ↑ Shaw 1906, p. 31.
  20. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 On or before 30 September 1497 (Shaw 1906, p. 31)
  21. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Metcalfe 1885, p. 31.
  22. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Shaw 1906, p. 36.
  23. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Metcalfe 1885, p. 45.
  24. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Metcalfe 1885, p. 46.
  25. ↑ Shaw 1906, p. 54.
  26. ↑ Shaw 1906, p. 57.
  27. 1 2 3 4 Shaw 1906, p. 61.
  28. 1 2 Chisholm 1911, pp. 353–354.
  29. ↑ Cokayne 1913, pp. 572–573.
  30. ↑ Shaw 1743, p. 356.
  31. ↑ Brenton 1823, p. 356.
  32. ↑ James 1827, p. 78.
  33. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 14075. p. 1210. 19 December 1797. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
  34. ↑ Laughton 1899, p. 248, Marshall 1823, p. 153
  35. ↑ Shaw 1906, p. 345.

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