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See also:ALMONER (from See also:Lat. eleemosynarius, through med. Lat. almosynarius, almonarius, and Fr. almosnier, aumosniea, &c., mod. Fr. aumonier) , in the See also:primitive sense, an officer in religious houses to whom belonged the management and See also:distribution of the See also:alms of the See also:house. By the See also:ancient canons all monasteries were to spend at least a tenth See also:part of their income in alms to the poor, and all bishops were . required to keep almoners. Almoners, as distinct from chaplains, appear See also:early as attached to the See also:court of the See also:kings of See also:France; but the See also:title of See also:grand almoner of France first appears in the reign of See also:Charles VIII.
He was an important court See also:official whose duties comprised the superintendence of the See also:Chapel Royal and all the religious ceremonies of the court. He was a director of the See also:great See also:hospital for the See also:blind (Quinze-Vingts), and nominated the regius professors and readers in the See also:College de France. The See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office was revived by See also:Napoleon I., was abolished in 183o, and again created by Napoleon III.; it existed till 1890. In See also:England, the royal See also:almonry still forms a part of the See also:sovereign's See also:household, the See also:officers being the hereditary grand almoner (the See also:marquess of See also:Exeter), the See also:lord high almoner, the sub-almoner, and the secretary to the lord high almoner. The office of hereditary grand almoner is now merely titular. The lord high almoner is an ecclesiastical officer, usually a See also:bishop, who had the rights to the See also:forfeiture of all deodands (q.v.) and the goods of a felo de se, for distribution among the poor. He had also, by virtue of an ancient See also:custom, the See also:power of giving the first dish from the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's table to whatever poor See also:person he pleased, or, instead of it, alms in See also:money, which custom is kept up by the lord high almoner distributing as many See also:silver pennies as the sovereign has years of See also:age to poor men and See also:women on Maundy See also:Thursday (q.v.).
End of Article: ALMONER (from Lat. eleemosynarius, through med. Lat. almosynarius, almonarius, and Fr. almosnier, aumosniea, &c., mod. Fr. aumonier)
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