knight bachelor in English
noun
1
a knight not belonging to any particular order.
In 1843 there were 451 knights bachelor and 787 members of the orders, but these numbers swelled rapidly, and by 1915 there were over 4,000 members of orders.
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1. The Banneret was entitled to display his arms on a square banner; the ordinary knight bachelor had to use a triangular *pennon
2. A Bachelor is first attested as the 12th-century bacheler: a knight Bachelor, a knight too young or poor to gather vassals under his own banner
3. Knight Banneret definition is - a knight of an ancient English order of knighthood that was commonly conferred as a reward for valor on the field of battle and that entitled the holder to bear a banner rather than the pennon of a knight bachelor.