The musings and meandering thoughts of a crotchety old man as he observes life in the world and in a small, rural town in South East Nebraska. My Pledge-Nulla dies sine linea-Not a day with out a line.
09 May 2023
The King's Champion and His Role at the British Coronation
Britain has a wonderful array of historic offices that date back to the Middle Ages, some of them of obscure origin. A number of these offices spend much of history in abeyance, a form of suspended animation, with people only appointed to them at a Coronation of a British sovereign, and then they are only revived just for that great event. One such obscure ancient office is the Honourable the King’s Champion – a position that may go back as far as the second quarter of the twelfth century and is held by the Dymoke family, a gentry family from Lincolnshire. In this video, I explore the office, its original purpose, and the Champion's role in the coronation, how it came to be held by the present family and how it has evolved over the years.
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