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2 unusual facts about Grand Falconer


Maison du Roi

This was the king's hunting service, run by the Grand Veneur (the Master of the Hunt and Royal Game Warden), consisted of the vénerie (hunting on horseback), louveterie (the hunt of wolves run by the Grand Louvetier), falcon hunting (run by the Grand Falconer) and the vautrait (boar hunt, run by the Capitaine du vautrait or Capitaine des toiles).

Milyukov

During the early 16th century, the most prominent one was Mikhail Ioanovich, who was a Grand Falconer and a namestnik of Bely Gorod (1506).



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