alferez

Almost had he succeeded in breaking through the ring of his foes when Garzia de Tineo, _alferez_ (or lieutenant) to Captain Diego de Andrade, wounded him severely with a pike.

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

On all patronal feasts the royal standard was borne to the church with great ceremony, and the alferez real, who carried it, received with regal honours at the church door.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Rodrigo later rendered such distinguished services in the war in which Sancho became involved with Aragon that he was made alferez (standard-bearer or commander-in-chief) of the king's troops.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Franco, to whom your Majesty, while he was alferez, granted thirty escudos 'pay to induce him to come with me; and I would trust him not only with those forts, but also with other things of importance that your Majesty has in these parts.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. James Alexander Robertson 1906

This they did, and could not be resisted; and as a reward for taking him out, a post of sergeant was given to the adjutant, and a military command to the alferez.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 James Alexander Robertson 1906

When the governor learned this, irritated because his order of arrest had not proved effectual, he ordered the soldiers to be arrested who constituted the guard, and would have had them garrote the alferez Don Francisco de Rivera, who was in command at that gate, because they had not killed a friar and taken prisoner Don Pedro de Monroy.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 James Alexander Robertson 1906

He, Giorgio, had reached the rank of ensign-alferez-and cooked for the general.

Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

He, Giorgio, had reached the rank of ensign-alferez-and cooked for the general.

Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

He, Giorgio, had reached the rank of ensign-alferez-and cooked for the general.

Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Joseph Conrad 1890

The officer next to the alferez -- who was a fine soldier, and, like the other, was on the inner guard in the Sangley ship on which they had come -- defended himself as well as he could, but was finally killed by a stroke of a campilan (a Mindanao weapon); and they took away his sword and dagger.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. Edward Gaylord Bourne 1884