knight marshal

knight marshal (plural knights marshal)

1. (UK, historical) An officer in the royal household, responsible for maintaining order in the royal court.
   • 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:

     ye must understand, that sir Adrian Poinings, being knight marshall vpon his returne into England, was otherwise emploied

• “knight marshal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.