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.