Earl Marshal, a high officer of State, an office of very ancient institution, now the head of the college of arms, and hereditary in the family of the Dukes of Norfolk; formerly one of the chief officers in the court of chivalry, a court which had to do with all matters of high ceremonial, such as coronations.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Earl * Earlom, Richard