It ought properly to be written chevalry. Chivalry that may hold of a common person, as well as of the king, is called scutagium. That which may hold only of the king is properly called sergeantry, and is again divided into grand or petit, i. Chivalry, therefore, is a tenure of service, whereby the tenant is bound to perform some noble or military office unto his lord, and is of two sorts either regal, that is, such as may hold only of the king or such as may also hold of a common person as well as of the king. The one is martial and military the other, clownish and rustick. There is no land but is holden mediately or immediately of the crown, by some service or other and therefore are all our freeholds, that are to us and our heirs, called feuda, fees, as proceeding from the benefit of the king As the king gave to the nobles large possessions for this or that rent and service, so they parcelled out their lands, so received for rents and services as they thought good: and those services are by Littleton divided into chivalry and socage. In law.Servitium militare, of the French, chevalier a tenure of land by knights service. They four doing acts more dangerous, though less famous, because they were but private chivalries. He would not cease ’till he reveng’d their wrongs. That by the faith which knights to knighthood bore, The qualifications of a knight as valour dexterity in arms. There be now, for martial encouragement, some degrees and orders of chivalry which, nevertheless, are conferred promiscuously upon soldiers and no soldiers.įrancis Bacon, Essay, 30. knighthood, from cheval, a horse as eques in Latin. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Įtymology: chevalerie, Fr.
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