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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A squire is a young noble boy who is in training to become a knight. He begins training at 7-8 years old and around 12-13 becomes a squire for a knight who is training him. At 21 he becomes a knight if he makes it through the years of training.
A squire was originally a helper to a knight, and derives from a term meaning shield bearer. The term quickly was applied to an apprentice to a knight who had gone through the training of being a page. The stages of page and squire were each about seven years long. The squire was typically 14 to 21 years old.
Later on, the term squire was used to refer to a member of the landed gentry who was not a knight.
a medieval dubbing is when a squire became a kinight
No pay. He was a noble boy who was in training to become a knight. People did not earn a "salary" in this time. Peasants worked for the house and land they lived on, nobles earned the manor for being loyal to the king for whom they protected politically.
Cowrie and cowry shells were replaced by coins and moneys in the medieval time. This happened back in 1000 BC.
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The lord would tap on the squire's shoulders to announce that he is now a knight, but in the early middle ages the lord would hit the squire hard enough to knock him over.