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EARL MARSHAL

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 797 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EARL See also:MARSHAL , in See also:England, a functionary who ranks as the eighth of the See also:great See also:officers of See also:state. He is the See also:head of the See also:college of arms, and has the See also:appointment of the See also:kings-of-arms, heralds and pursuivants at his discretion. He attends the See also:sovereign in opening and closing the session of See also:parliament, walking opposite to the See also:lord great See also:chamberlain on his or her right See also:hand. It is his See also:duty to make arrangements for the See also:order of all state processions and ceremonials, especially for coronations and royal marriages and funerals. Like the lord high See also:constable he rode into See also:Westminster See also:Hall with the See also:champion after a See also:coronation, till the coronation banquet was abandoned, taking his See also:place on the See also:left hand, and with the lord great chamberlain he assists at the introduction of all newly-created peers into the See also:House of Lords. The marshal appears in the feudal armies to have been in command of the See also:cavalry under the constable, and to have in some measure superseded him as See also:master of the See also:horse in the royal See also:palace. He exercised See also:joint and co-See also:ordinate See also:jurisdiction with the constable in the See also:court of See also:chivalry, and afterwards became the See also:sole See also:judge of that tribunal till its obsolescence. The marshalship of England was formerly believed to have been inherited from the See also:Clares by the Marshal See also:family, who had only been marshals of the See also:household. It was held, however, by the latter family, as the See also:office of See also:chief (magister) marshal, as See also:early as the days of See also:Henry I. Through them, under Henry III., it passed to the Bigods, as their eldest co-heirs. In 1306 it See also:fell to the See also:crown on the See also:death of the last See also:Bigod, earl of See also:Norfolk, who had made See also:Edward I. his See also:heir, and in 1316 it was granted by Edward II. to his own younger See also:brother, See also:Thomas " of Brotherton," earl of Norfolk. As yet the See also:style of the office was only " marshal " although the last Bigod holder, being an earl, was sometimes loosely spoken of as the earl marshal.

The office, having reverted to the crown, was granted out anew by See also:

Richard II., in 1385, to Thomas See also:Mowbray, earl of See also:Nottingham, the representative of Thomas " of Brotherton." In 1386 the style of " earl marshal " was formally granted to him in addition. After several attainders and partial restorations in the reigns of the Tudors and the Stuarts, the earl marshalship was granted anew to the Howards by See also:Charles II. in 1672 and entailed on their male See also:line, with many specific remainders and limitations, under which See also:settlement it has regularly descended to the See also:present See also:duke of Norfolk. [ts holders, however, could not execute the office until the See also:Roman See also:Catholic emancipation, and had to appoint deputies. The duke is styled earl marshal " and hereditary marshal of England," but the See also:double style would seem to be an See also:error, though the Mowbrays, with their double creation (1385, 1386) might have claimed it. His See also:Grace appends the letters " E.M." to his See also:signature, and bears behind his See also:shield two batons crossed in saltire, the marshal's See also:rod (virga) having been the badge of the office from See also:Norman times. There appear to have been hereditary marshals of See also:Ireland, but their See also:history is not well ascertained. The Keiths were Great Marischals of See also:Scotland from at least the days of See also:Robert See also:Bruce, and were created earls marischal in or about 1458, but lost both earldom and office by the See also:attainder of See also:George, the Ioth earl, in 1716. (See also MARSHAL; STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF.) See " The Marshalship of England," in J. H. See also:Round. See also:Commune of See also:London and Other Studies (London, 1899); G. E.

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Complete See also:Peerage. (J. H.

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