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[ FEW: 2/ii,941a comes; Gdf: 2,230b conestable; GdfC: 9,159a connestable; TL: 2,670 conestable; DEAF: conestable; DMF: connétable; TLF: connétable; OED: constable n.; MED: constable n.; DMLBS: 388c comes (comes stabulariorum) /456b constabularius ]

coneçtable, conestabel; connestable; constable; cunestable, cunetable, cunistable, cunstable; konestable, constabyll

s.1constable, chief officer of household ♦ constable, warden (of castle) ♦ constable, chief officer of a town ♦ constable, local official charged with keeping the peace ♦ commander of an army or group of soldiers 2(used as a (sur)name)

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1title occupationconstable, chief officer of household:

( s.xii^ex; MS: s.xiii^m ) E se uns reis […] Ait conestable e seneschal asis E tot son poeple ait en lor garde mis 731

♦title occupationconstable, warden (of castle):

( 1297 ) faites savoir au conestable de la Tour e au gardien de Londres qe […] 52.6

( 1404 ) John Copyll, constabyll de chastell de Baumburgh i 207

♦title occupationconstable, chief officer of a town:

( 1315 ) R. de C., conestable de Dovre et gardein des cink portz i 357

( 1389 ) qe en chescune ville soit ordeiné un conestable, et qe un pois pur leynes accordant al standard soit ordeiné pur demurer en la garde de chescuny conestable iii 272

♦title occupationconstable, local official charged with keeping the peace:

( 1328 ) burghaldres, conestables et gardeins de la pees i 258

( 1329-30 ) conestables et gardeins de la pees dedeinz lour gardez 3-4 Ed III 786

♦mil.ship.titlecommander of an army or group of soldiers:

( 1155; MS: s.xiii^4/4 ) Gratian, Un chevalier mult succurable, De dous legiuns cunestable i 325.6112

( s.xii²; MS: s.xii^3/3 ) S. ki cunestables ert de la chevalerie Asor 22

( c.1185 ) Pentalis fu chevaler pruz Et conestable fu de tuz 7970

( s.xivⁱⁿ; MS: 1312-40 ) Le roy H. apela F. e ly fist conestable de tut son host, e ly comanda tote la force de sa terre 21.28

( c.1340 ) connestable (var. (V: s.xv¹) conestable) de la flotte 12

2 name (used as a (sur)name):

( 1130 ) Richard Conestable Constable

( 1200 ) Alice Cunestable Constable

( 1202-3 ) la Konestable Constable

conestable d'Engletere

1mil.title statusConstable of England (one of the chief functionaries in the English royal household and supreme judge of military offences and of questions of chivalry):

( 1346 ) Ceste endenture faite [...] parentre [...] William de Bohun counte de Norhamptoun et conestable d'Engleterre [...] et monseignur Thomas de Daggeworthe 370

( 1400 ) le constable d’Engleterre, c’est assaver le count de Northumbirland 269.37

conestable de France

1mil.title statusConstable of France (one of the chief functionaries in the French royal household and supreme judge of military offences and of questions of chivalry):

( a.1399; MS: a.1399 ) le seignour de F., conestable de Frauns 60.31

conestable de la pes

1title occupationofficial charged with keeping the peace:

( 1307 ) le viscounte lour maunda par les conestables de la pees de la dite vile iii 195

suzconestable

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