(
1389
)
qe en chescune ville soit ordeiné un Conestable, & qe un pois pur leynes accordant al standard soit ordeiné pur demurer en la garde de chescuny Conestable
iii 272
♦titleoccupationconstable, 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
(
s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3
)
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
conestable d'Engletere
1mil.titlestatusConstable 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.titlestatusConstable 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 (s.xii2)