Palʹadin
.An officer of the Palaʹtium or Byzantine palace, a high dignitary.
Paladins. The knights of King Charlemagne. The most noted are Allory de lʹEstoc; Astolfo; Basin de Genevois; Fierambras or Ferumbras; Florismart; Ganelon, the traitor; Geoffroy, Seigneur de Bordelois, and Geoffroy de Frises; Guerin, Duc de Lorraine; Guillaume de lʹEstoc, brother of Allory; Guy de Bourgogne; Hoël, Comte de Nantes; Lambert, Prince de Bruxelles; Malagiʹgi; Nami or Nayme de Bavière; Ogier or Oger the Dane; Olivier, son of Regnier, Comte de Gennes; Orlando (see Roland); Otuël; Richard, Duc de Normandie; Rinaldo; Riol du Mans; Roland, Comte de Cenouta, son of Milon and Dame Berthe, Charlemagne’s sister, Samson, Duc de Bourgogne; and Thiry or Thiery dʹArdaine. Of these, twelve at a time seemed to have formed the coterie of the king. (Latin, palatīrvus, one of the palace.)
