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Lança

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Descritor\Cargos Militares, Organização e Táctica

Lança: Cavaleiro. Também pode designar um pequeno grupo de soldados organizados em torno do homem-de-armas. Lanza a military unit. The term was originally used in the organization of the military orders? hosts but it was soon adopted by the Crown. From the second half of the fourteenth century onwards, Castilian army sizes were estimated by the number of lanzas they had. There are no extant sources describing how many effectives a lanza comprised. However, it appears that it consisted of one man-at-arms, and an extra horse, which was supported by two or three foot soldiers. Designation usually given in Portugal to men who were wellequipped with weapons, who accompanied the groups of armed men of the nobility or military orders. As far as documentation indicates, each ?lancer? in Portugal had to correspond to only a single man-at-arms.