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In the Middle Ages, a squire was the shield- or armour-bearer of a knight.[2] He was responsible for taking care of the horse and arms of the knight. Other duties included carving the knight's meat. Despite being a servant, it was a high status job and could serve as training for future knights.[3]
Use of the term evolved over time. Initially, a squire could be a knight's apprentice or a servant that fought with his lord. Later, a village leader or a lord of the manor might come to be known as a "squire", and still later, the term was applied to members of the landed gentry.
Terminology Squire is a shortened version of the word esquire, from the Old French escuier (modern French écuyer), itself derived from the Late Latin scutarius ("shield bearer"), in medieval or Old English a scutifer. The Classical Latin equivalent was armiger ("arms bearer").
- ^ The figures are "a touching early tenthteenth[clarification needed]-century visual representation of the knight with his immediate following ... a knight is shown accompanied by his squire, page and horse".(Prestwich, Michael, Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages: The English Experience, London, 1996, p.49 [1])
- ^ "Definition of Squire". Retrieved 12 December 2016.
- ^ Taylor, Craig (2014). Historians on Chaucer: The ‘General Prologue’ to the Canterbury Tales. p. 63-76. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
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