History: Vintenar

Equipment & Monetary System

Lancers

A member of the Calvary. A lancer was

a type of cavalryman who fought with a

lance. 

Dragoons

A member of the Calvary. The word

dragoon originally meant mounted

infantry, who were trained in horse riding as well

as infantry fighting skills. 

Calvary Archers

A member of the Calvary. A horse archer, horsed ar

cher, or mounted archer is a

cavalryman armed with a bow, able to shoot while ri

ding from horseback.

Constable

An officer who commanded an army or an important ga

rrison, or the officer who

commanded in the king's absence. 

Vintenar

Man in charge of twenty soldiers. 

Man-at-Arms (also Yeoman)

A soldier holding his land, generally 60 to 120 acres, in exchange 

for military service.

In English history, a class intermediate between the gentry and the 

laborers; a yeoman

was usually a landholder but could also be a retainer, 

guard, attendant, or subordinate

official. Most yeomen of the later Middle Ages were

probably occupied in cultivating the

land; Raphael Holinshed, in his Chronicles (1577),

described them as having free land

worth 6 (originally 40 shillings) annually and as n

ot being entitled to bear arms. 

Foot Soldier

A member of the Calvary. A person who serves in an

army; a person engaged in military

service. A person of military skill or experience w

ho serves and fights for pay. A person

who contends or serves in any cause: a soldier of t

he Lord. 

Sergeant

A servant who accompanied his lord to battle, a
 horseman of lower status used as light

cavalry, or a type of tenure in service of a non-knightly
character who might have carried

the lord's banner, served in the wine cellar, or ma

de bows and arrows. Sergeants paid the

feudal dues of wardship, marriage, and relief, but

were exempt from scutage.