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conestable (1130)
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conestable (1130)

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coneçtable,  conestabel;  connestable;  constable;  cunestable,  cunetable,  cunistable,  cunstable;  konestable  (constabyll)  
  FEW:  comes 2/ii,941a Gdf:  conestable 2,230b GdfC:  connestable 9,159a TL: conestable 2,670 DEAF:  conestable  DMF:  connétable  TLF:  connétable  OED:  constable n.  MED:  constable n.  DMLBS:  comes (comes stabulariorum) 388c / constabularius 456b

s.

1titleoccupationconstable, chief officer of household: 
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiiim )  E se uns reis […] Ait conestable e seneschal asis E tot son poeple ait en lor garde mis  Rom rom 731
♦titleoccupationconstable, warden (of castle): 
( 1297 )  faites savoir au conestable de la Tour e au gardien de Londres qe […]  Crisis 52.6
( 1404 )  John Copyll, constabyll de chastell de Baumburgh  Roy Lett Hen IV i 207
♦titleoccupationconstable, chief officer of a town: 
( 1315 )  R. de C., conestable de Dovre et gardein des cink portz  Rot Parl1 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  Rot Parl1 iii 272
♦titleoccupationconstable, local official charged with keeping the peace: 
( 1328 )  burghaldres, conestables et gardeins de la pees  Stats i 258
( 1329-30 )  conestables et gardeins de la pees dedeinz lour gardez  YBB 3-4 Ed III 786
♦mil.ship.titlecommander of an army or group of soldiers: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Gratian, Un chevalier mult succurable, De dous legiuns cunestable  Brut WACE i 325.6112
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  S. ki cunestables ert de la chevalerie Asor  Liv Reis1 22
( c.1185 )  Pentalis fu chevaler pruz Et conestable fu de tuz  Proth ANTS 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  Fouke ANTS 21.28
( c.1340 )  connestable (var. (V: s.xv1) conestable) de la flotte  Blk Bk Adm 12
2 name (used as a (sur)name): 
( 1130 )  Richard Conestable  Family Names Constable
( 1200 )  Alice Cunestable  Family Names Constable
( 1202-3 )  la Konestable  Family Names Constable
conestable d'Engletere
mil.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  Ind Dagworth 370
( 1400 )  le constable d’Engleterre, c’est assaver le count de Northumbirland  Deposition 269.37
conestable de France
mil.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  Anon Chr1 60.31
conestable de la pes
titleoccupationofficial charged with keeping the peace: 
( 1307 )  le viscounte lour maunda par les conestables de la pees de la dite vile  King’s Bench iii 195

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suzconestable 
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