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Definition of Grand sergeanty

Grand sergeanty
Sergeanty Ser"geant*y, n. [Cf. OF. sergentie, LL. sergentia. See Sergeant.] (Eng. Law) Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only. [Written also serjeanty.] Grand sergeanty, a particular kind of tenure by which the tenant was bound to do some special honorary service to the king in person, as to carry his banner, his sword, or the like. --Tomlins. --Cowell. --Blackstone. Petit sergeanty. See under Petit.

Meaning of Grand sergeanty from wikipedia

- surviving remnants of grand sergeanty are regarded as roles of high honour, it should be remembered that originally grand sergeanty was a duty, not a right...
- The Chief Butler of England is an office of Grand Sergeanty ****ociated with the feudal Manor of Kenninghall in Norfolk. The office requires service to...
- granted the office of Constable of Dundee for the feudal service (grand sergeanty) of carrying the royal banner in the army of Scotland, and in 1324...
- January 1419 was granted the comté of Tancarville in Normandy to hold by grand sergeanty of delivery of a bascinet helmet at the Castle of Roan on Saint George's...
- cross-bows bent or. He held by the same tenure and held elsewhere by the grand-sergeanty, as suggested by his name, to "attend the king with his cross-bow and...
- "Stodlegh" (East Stoodleigh) to Robert FitzPain under the tenure of grand sergeanty comprising the payment of one pair of white gloves or 1 penny due annually...
- Plympton. It was held from the Courtenays by the feudal tenure of grand sergeanty described as: "Whenever the Earl may come to Exe Island to fish, or...
- Alington the younger acquired the manor of Wymondley, which was held in Grand Sergeanty by the service of presenting the first cup at the Coronation of Kings...
- ceremonial form is termed “grand serjeanty” whilst that of a more functional or menial nature is termed “petty sergeanty”. by frankalmoinage, generally...