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Retainer

Retainer agreement, a contract in which an employer pays for work to be specified later


Ancient Egyptian retainer sacrifices

King Djer, Aha’s successor and son, had 318 retainer sacrifices buried in his tomb, and 269 retainer sacrifices buried in enclosures surrounding his tomb.

Banastre Rebellion

It took place in 1315 when a group of disaffected knights decided to revenge themselves on the Earl of Lancaster by attacking his chief retainer and their rival, Sir Robert de Holland.

Belle Kogan

In July 1932, she opened her own office at 185 Madison Avenue in New York City with a retainer from Quaker and started designing houseware products for Libbey Glass, Federal Glass, US Glass, Towle Mfg. Co., Maryland Plastics, and Bakelite Corp. Five years later, she traveled throughout Europe to study trends in Scandinavian design and by 1939 found herself at the forefront of modern design in the United States.

Geum-ran

"Geum-ran" (alternately spelled Geumlan) is the character in Dae Jo Yeong (TV series), the adopted sister of Mimosa, later becoming the meritorious retainer of Balhae.

Hani ibn Urwa

Ibn Ziyad summoned a retainer, Ma'qil, who he tasked to act a spy and pretend he was a Shi'a in order to locate the whereabouts of Muslim ibn Aqeel.

Inoue clan

A cadet branch of the Inoue clan was established in 1649 at Takaoka Domain, Shimosa Province by Inoue Masashige (1585-1661), a retainer of Tokugawa Ieyasu and fourth son of Inoue Kiyohide.

J. G. Devlin

His was Vivian Stanshall's personal choice for the role of Old Scrotum, the Wrinkled Retainer in the Charisma Films version of Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (film), released in 1980.

Jidaimono

The play revolves around actual historical figures of the Genpei War, including Minamoto no Yoshitsune and his retainer Benkei.

Kōriki clan

Kōriki Kiyonaga (1530-1608) was a hereditary retainer of the Tokugawa clan, who served Tokugawa Ieyasu as bugyō of Sunpu and was made daimyō of Iwatsuki Domain (20,000 koku) in Musashi Province in 1590 after the Tokugawa were transferred to the Kantō region by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Langley Hall, West Midlands

One member of the family was the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1289, and another was a confidential retainer to the Black Prince.

Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles

At the death of the 5th Baron in 1521, Lionel Welles thus inherited the Welles barony and lands, but as he was underage, his wardship was granted to his future father-in-law, Robert Waterton (d.1425), a 'trusted retainer of John of Gaunt and the Lancastrian Kings'.

Miyamoto Mikinosuke

Miyamoto Mikinosuke (????-1626) a retainer of the Japanese clan of Honda during the Edo period (17th century) of Japan.

Niwa clan

Famous clan members included Oda Nobunaga's senior retainer Niwa Nagahide, as well as Nagahide's 19th century descendants Niwa Nagatomi, Niwa Nagakuni, and Niwa Nagahiro.

Ōkuma Tomohide

He served the Uesugi clan, but later switched allegiances and became a retainer of the Takeda clan of Kai Province.

Ōoka clan

The clan’s fortunes went into eclipse when Ōoka Tadashina (1667–1710) so displeased Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi that he was exiled to Hachijojima and Ōoka Tadafusa (1650–1696) was forced to commit seppuku for killing a retainer of the Shimazu clan in a brawl.

Örüg Temür Khan

The Yongle Emperor made overtures to Gulichi and his principal retainer Arughtai to establish relationship within Ming China's tributary system, but Gulichi and Arughtai rejected it.

Ōyama Sutematsu

Sutematsu married the Imperial Japanese Army general (and former Satsuma retainer) Ōyama Iwao; rather ironically, Ōyama had served as an artilleryman during the bombardment of Sutematsu's hometown of Aizu.

Robert de Herle

Robert Herle was associated with the Bassett family of Drayton in 1339 as retainer to the Bassett manors of Moulton, Buckby, Olney and Walsall.

Robin Raphel

She soon became a lobbyist for Pakistan at Cassidy & Associates, a Washington lobbying firm that was employed by the Government of Pakistan at an annual retainer of $1.2 million.

Shunkinsho

Shunkinshō (novella), by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎潤一郎), concerning the lifelong love affair of a blind aristocratic musician and her retainer/pupil/partner in obsession husband.

Tachibana Ginchiyo

She was the daughter of Tachibana Dōsetsu, a powerful retainer of the Ōtomo clan (which were rivals of the Shimazu clan at the time).

Takenaka Shigekata

Takenaka Shigekata was born in 1828 in the town of Iwate, in Mino Province, the son of Tokugawa retainer Takenaka Motoyuki.

Thomas Bates

Bates was born at Lapworth in Warwickshire, and became a retainer to Robert Catesby, who from 1604 planned to kill King James I by blowing up the House of Lords with gunpowder, and inciting a popular revolt during which a Catholic monarch would be restored to the English throne.

Tsutsui clan

The Tsutsui soon on became a retainer family under that of the Oda clan, resulting in a minor rise within their power.

Walter Sparrow

His career enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s, with Sparrow playing key roles in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves as the blinded retainer Duncan, 1993's The Secret Garden as gruff gardener Ben Weatherstaff, and the 1995 American coming-of-age film Now and Then as tragic drifter 'Crazy Pete'.

William de Vescy of Kildare

On 24 June 1314, while serving as a retainer of Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, William perished at the Battle of Bannockburn.

William II de Cantilupe

He became a retainer of Ranulph, Earl of Chester and served with him on King Henry's expedition to Brittany.

Yonezawa Castle

Ōe Tokihiro, the younger son of Ōe no Hiromoto, a senior retainer of the Kamakura shogunate was granted lands in Dewa Province, and in 1238 changed his name to Nagai Tokihiro.


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