The maiden of gentle birth was, like her brother, educated in the castle of some knight or baron, her father's friend, and many of her duties were those of personal attendance.
A general qualification for knighthood was noble or gentle birth, which, in its widest signification, expressed a state of independence.
Like other children of gentle birth, therefore, the boys of this noble Duke Guerin of Montglaive, in spite of their mother's wishes, commenced their chivalric exercises.
I think she must be the daughter of some domestic servant and a man of gentle birth.
Here he was trying to make her understand that she was a nameless little lady who could not possibly marry any one of gentle birth, and she was calmly suggesting she might be superior to him.
Every grown man of the knightly order was obliged, under pain of loss of the privileges of gentle birth, to rally at once to the Wojewoda’s standard.
As for the children of gentle birth, we know very well how they were taught.
Against such a case as Sevenoke, the son of poor parents, who rose to be Lord Mayor, we have a hundred others in which the successful merchant starts with the advantage of gentle birth.
Here, however, we have only to do with the fact that Whittington was of gentle birth, and that he was apprenticed to a man also of gentle birth.
It is true that one does not cease to enjoy, under all circumstances, the pride of gentle birth, which has been my chief consolation during all our troubles.
You are yourself of gentle birth, Sir Miles, yet you own that you love not Richardson.
The cavalry and infantry were arranged in the old system: the lance was the weapon of those of gentle birth, while the bow and the bill were used by people of inferior state.
Naples, forbidding any one to receive it who was not of gentle birth.
Surely to represent a majority of girls, or even a majority of girls of gentle birth, as having received their nurture in convents, would be on the evidence absurd.
The second limitation of convent education in medieval England is contained in the words "girls of gentle birth.
It is more probable that they busied themselves with needlework and embroidery, which were the usual occupations of ladies of gentle birth[858].
However, she instructed him that he was not to appear before her until he was married to a woman whom he dearly loved; but to whose fortune he need give no heed, for it would suffice if she were of gentle birth.
The word damoiselle is frequently employed in the Heptameron, and though sometimes it merely signifies an attendant on a lady, the reference is more frequently to a woman of gentle birth, whether she be spinster, wife or widow.
If she is really as the dame supposes, of gentle birth, it would be undoubtedly right to try and give her some of the advantages of which she has been deprived.
It could not fail to be a satisfaction to him, as both the ladies and her foster-parents were fully convinced that she was of gentle birth.
The very earliest of our poets, Chaucer, must have been a man of gentle birth, since he was employed on embassies of importance, and was married to the daughter of a French knight of distinction, and sister of the Duchess of Lancaster.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gentle birth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
