Earl Marshal

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noun

an officer of the English peerage who presides over the College of Heralds and organizes royal processions and other important ceremonies

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Earl Spencer adds, “Effectively, my great-grandfather sold his children to his father-in-law.”
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It has a presence, it remains potentially destructive, but all we can do is attempt to marshal it.
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The earl was killed in battle and Marshal captured, but he would later be ransomed by the queen herself.
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William appears to have organized acquiescence by English lords for John, and was duly awarded when he was made Earl of Pembroke.
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He distinguished himself in several campaigns, especially in the Peninsular war, and was raised to the rank of field marshal.
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The old earl's property, the source of his wealth, as from his title the reader will have shrewdly guessed, was in collieries.
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With the management of these, however, the Earl of Pit Town did not trouble himself.
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He saw with evident pleasure the outward and visible signs of the old earl's immense wealth.
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Edmund de la Pole, earl of Suffolk, on account of his near relationship to the house of York, beheaded.
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