>>“Men-at-Arms” в средневековой Англии были тяжеловооруженные кавалеристы в полном доспехе, но не рыцари.
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>>Поэтому название можно перевести и как "Эсквайры на войне" или "Высшая часть благородного сословия на войне".
>Просто "Их высокоблагородия". Хрустобулочно и всё такое.
>А если серьёзно, то, КМК, просто "В броне и с оружием".
On 20 June 1322 sheriffs were instructed to send all bannerets, knights, armigeri and other homines ad arma equites, who are not in retinues, to the muster at Newcastle. Does this mean that by this date there was a clear distinction between armigeri and men-at-arms, that is to say that the esquire as a social category has actually arrived?
In 1322 the sheriff of Oxfordshire and Berkshire returned the names of eighteen armigeri and nine men-at-arms in the former county, and of four armigeri and ten men-at-arms in the latter who were not already attached to retinues; that is to say, men who constituted an additional pool of potential cavalrymen which had not been tapped.
