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Comitatus, the Glossary

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In ancient times, comitatus was an armed escort or retinue, especially in the context of Germanic warrior culture for a warband tied to a leader by an oath of fealty.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 42 relations: Antrustion, Battle of Brunanburh (poem), Beowulf, Bucellarii, Comes, Counties of Hungary (1000–1920), Cynewulf of Wessex, Declension, Devil, Druzhina, Eurasian Steppe, Exeter Book, Feudalism, Fyrd, Germania (book), Germanic peoples, Hird, Housecarl, Jesus, Leidang, Lex Appuleia agraria, North Germanic languages, Numerus Batavorum, Oath, Old English, Patronage, Posse comitatus, Proto-Indo-European society, Retinue, Roman Empire, Seamus Heaney, Secret society, Tacitus, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wife's Lament, Thegn, Thingmen, Varangian Guard, Vassal, Warrior, Wealhtheow.

  2. Ancient warfare
  3. Cultural conventions
  4. Early Germanic warfare

Antrustion

An antrustion (antrustio, plural antrustiones) was a member of the bodyguard or military household of the Merovingian kings of the Franks.

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Battle of Brunanburh (poem)

The "Battle of Brunanburh" is an Old English poem.

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Beowulf

Beowulf (Bēowulf) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines.

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Bucellarii

Bucellarii (the Latin plural of Bucellarius; literally "biscuit–eater", Βουκελλάριοι) were formations of escort troops used in the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity.

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Comes

Comes (comites), often translated as count, was a Roman title or office.

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Counties of Hungary (1000–1920)

A county (vármegye or megye; the earlier refers to the counties of the Kingdom of Hungary) is the name of a type of administrative unit in Hungary.

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Cynewulf of Wessex

Cynewulf was the King of Wessex from 757 until his death in 786.

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Declension

In linguistics, declension (verb: to decline) is the changing of the form of a word, generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence, by way of some inflection.

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Devil

A devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions.

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Druzhina

In the medieval history of Kievan Rus' and Early Poland, a druzhina, drużyna, or družyna (Slovak and družina; drużyna;;, druzhýna literally a "fellowship") was a retinue in service of a Slavic chieftain, also called knyaz.

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Eurasian Steppe

The Eurasian Steppe, also called the Great Steppe or The Steppes, is the vast steppe ecoregion of Eurasia in the temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands biome.

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Exeter Book

The Exeter Book, also known as the Codex Exoniensis or Exeter Cathedral Library MS 3501, is a large codex of Old English poetry, believed to have been produced in the late tenth century AD.

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Feudalism

Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries.

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Fyrd

A fyrd was a type of early Anglo-Saxon army that was mobilised from freemen or paid men to defend their Shire's lords estate, or from selected representatives to join a royal expedition.

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Germania (book)

The Germania, written by the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus around 98 AD and originally entitled On the Origin and Situation of the Germans (De origine et situ Germanorum), is a historical and ethnographic work on the Germanic peoples outside the Roman Empire.

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Germanic peoples

The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages.

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Hird

The hird (also named "Håndgangne Menn" in Norwegian), in Scandinavian history, was originally an informal retinue of personal armed companions, hirdmen or housecarls.

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Housecarl

A housecarl (húskarl; huscarl) was a non-servile manservant or household bodyguard in medieval Northern Europe.

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Jesus

Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

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Leidang

The institution known as leiðangr (Old Norse), leidang (Norwegian), leding (Danish), ledung (Swedish), expeditio (Latin) or sometimes lething (English), was a form of conscription (mass levy) to organize coastal fleets for seasonal excursions and in defense of the realm typical for medieval Scandinavians and, later, a public levy of free farmers.

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Lex Appuleia agraria

The lex Appuleia agraria was a Roman agrarian law introduced by the plebeian tribune Lucius Appuleius Saturninus during his second tribunate in 100 BC.

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North Germanic languages

The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages.

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Numerus Batavorum

The Numerus Batavorum, also called the cohors Germanorum,Suetonius, Galba. Comitatus and Numerus Batavorum are early Germanic warfare.

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Oath

Traditionally an oath (from Anglo-Saxon āþ, also called plight) is either a statement of fact or a promise taken by a sacrality as a sign of verity.

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Old English

Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Patronage

Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows on another.

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Posse comitatus

The posse comitatus (from the Latin for "power of the county"), frequently shortened to posse, is in common law a group of people mobilized by the conservator of peace – typically a reeve, sheriff, chief, or another special/regional designee like an officer of the peace potentially accompanied by or with the direction of a justice or ajudged parajudicial process given the imminence of actual damage – to suppress lawlessness, defend the people, or otherwise protect the place, property, and public welfare.

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Proto-Indo-European society

Proto-Indo-European society is the reconstructed culture of Proto-Indo-Europeans, the ancient speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language, ancestor of all modern Indo-European languages.

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Retinue

A retinue is a body of persons "retained" in the service of a noble, royal personage, or dignitary; a suite (French "what follows") of retainers.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator.

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Secret society

A secret society is an organization about which the activities, events, inner functioning, or membership are concealed.

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Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus (–), was a Roman historian and politician.

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The Battle of Maldon

"The Battle of Maldon" is the name given to an Old English poem of uncertain date celebrating the real Battle of Maldon of 991, at which an Anglo-Saxon army failed to repulse a Viking raid.

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The Dream of the Rood

The Dream of the Rood is one of the Christian poems in the corpus of Old English literature and an example of the genre of dream poetry.

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The Wife's Lament

"The Wife's Lament" or "The Wife's Complaint" is an Old English poem of 53 lines found on folio 115 of the Exeter Book and generally treated as an elegy in the manner of the German frauenlied, or "women's song".

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Thegn

In later Anglo-Saxon England, a thegn (pronounced; Old English: þeġn) or thane (or thayn in Shakespearean English) was an aristocrat who owned substantial land in one or more counties.

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Thingmen

The Thingmen (Þingalið) was a unit in the service of the Kings of England during the period 1013–1051, financed by direct taxation which had its origins in the tribute known as Danegeld.

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Varangian Guard

The Varangian Guard (translit-std) was an elite unit of the Byzantine army from the tenth to the fourteenth century who served as personal bodyguards to the Byzantine emperors.

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Vassal

A vassal or liege subject is a person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch, in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe.

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Warrior

A warrior is a guardian specializing in combat or warfare, especially within the context of a tribal or clan-based warrior culture society that recognizes a separate warrior aristocracy, class, or caste.

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Wealhtheow

Wealhtheow (also rendered Wealhþēow or Wealthow; Ƿealhþēoƿ) is a queen of the Danes in the Old English poem, Beowulf, first introduced in line 612.

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See also

Ancient warfare

Cultural conventions

Early Germanic warfare

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comitatus

Also known as Comitat, Comitatus (Classical meaning), Komitat.