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Constable of France
The
Constable of France
(, from
Latin
comes stabuli
for '
count
of the stables'), as the First Officer of the Crown, was one of the original five
Great Officers of the Crown of France
(along with
seneschal
,
chamberlain
,
butler
, and
chancellor
) and
Commander in Chief
of the army. He, theoretically, as
Lieutenant-general
of the King, outranked all the nobles and was second-in-command only to the
King
.
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