If you had lesser noblemen sworn to your cause, they brought their men. The full-time professionals of your retinue wore your livery. The system was called 'Livery and Maintenance' the clue's in the title! In the hierarchy of retainers which is more likely?Īny help that anyone can offer at all would be greatly appreciated. Is it simply the case of the 'direct' retainers of the Duke would bear his livery, and retainers of his retainers would wear the livery of the knight or whomever. However, the Duke of Buckingham ordered 2000 armbands bearing the Stafford knot in 1454. In Douglas Sadler's work (Armies and Warfare During the Wars of the Roses), Sir John Paston is said to have requested 'good archers' in his livery. More so the hierarchical nature of *who* wore what liveries of others? So, for example, in 1475 the Duke of Norfolk mustered 2 knights and 300 archers would all of those have worn Norfolk's livery if at all, would the knights wear their own and the 'humbler' archers wear Norfolk's livery, or assuming the archers are the retainers of or have been arrayed by the knights, would they have borne the livery of the knights in question? I'm not so much interested in what liveries were or how the were worn etc. I imagine the standard answer to this is 'we're not sure' or 'it depends' but hopefully not.
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