heretog

• heretoch

From Middle English heretogh, heretoȝe, from Old English heretoga, heretoha (“commander, general”), from Proto-West Germanic *harjatogō, equivalent to here (“army”) +‎ tow. Doublet of heretoga (borrowed from Old English) and herzog (borrowed from the German cognate Herzog (“duke”)).

heretog (plural heretogs)

1. (historical) The leader or commander of an army in Saxon times.
2. (historical) A marshal in Anglo-Saxon times
   • (Can we date this quote by Blackstone and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?) William Blackstone, volume 1

     In the time of our Saxon ancestors, as appears from Edward the Confessor’s laws, the military force of this kingdom was in the hands of the dukes or heretochs, who were constituted through every province and county in the kingdom.

• heretoga

• “heretog”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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