Timeline for Was there a semi-professional soldiering class in Early Middle Ages Europe?
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| Sep 18, 2019 at 2:33 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | Exactly. It is vital to distinguish the training role of a knight from his combat role. It was a knight's responsibility to arrive for combat not only himself, but with a designated number of other men at arms, trained and equipped for battle. In this sense regard him as a sergeant. That he might (or might not) fight in battle as part of mounted troop is an entirely different matter. Likewise for the Constable of a castle, as noted here, perhaps not himself a soldier. | |
| Sep 17, 2019 at 18:04 | comment | added | Denis de Bernardy | Sources from the requested early (500-900) rather than mid or late medieval period would improve this answer. (Suggesting because what you wrote seems to be more about the mid to late medieval period.) | |
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| Sep 17, 2019 at 13:18 | history | answered | Milo Bem | CC BY-SA 4.0 |