Knights
“milites”
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class of the Knights · knights · milites
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On the Mysteries
A cavalry class or military group mustered at the Anaceum.
The Knights were to be mustered at the Anaceum by trumpet before nightfall, while the Council would take up its quarters on the Acropolis for the night, and the Prytanes in the Tholus.
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Roman equestrian class (equites), to which Cicero's father belonged.
3, 106 bc His father, who was a man of property and belonged to the class of the “Knights,” moved to Rome when Cicero was a child;
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The class of lesser military tenants distinguished from barons, owing a lower fixed relief under the Charter.
The latter were called knights (milites), while “baron” was reserved for the greater tenants.
If any of our earls or barons, or others holding of us in chief by military service shall have died, and at the time of his death his heir shall be full of age and owe “relief” he shall have his inheritance on payment of the ancient relief, namely the heir or heirs of an earl, £100 for a whole earl’s barony;
Si quis comitum vel baronum nostrorum, sive aliorum tenencium de nobis in capite per servicium militare, mortuus fuerit, et cum decesserit heres suus plene etatis fuerit et relevium debeat, habeat hereditatem suam per antiquum relevium; scilicet heres vel heredes comitis de baronia comitis integra per centum libras; heres vel heredes baronis de baronia integra per centum libras; heres vel heredes …