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The squires of the Middle Ages were young men training to be knights. They worked for knights and lived with the knights. In peaceful times they would have lived on a manor, possibly in the manor house, or in a castle. In wartime, they would have lived in castles or, if the knights were in the field, in tents or in buildings appropriated or rented by the knights as needed.

The use of the word squire for a village leader or prosperous land owner came about after the Middle Ages ended.

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