The Master of the Horse was (and in some cases, still is) a position of varying importance in several European nations.
Read more about Master Of The Horse: Magister Equitum (Ancient Rome), Master of The Horse (United Kingdom), Grand Squire of France, Oberststallmeister (Germany), Caballerizo Mayor (Spain), Papal Master of The Horse, Riksstallmästare (Sweden)
Famous quotes containing the words master of, master and/or horse:
“A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“Now we sing, and do tiny dances on the kitchen floor.
Our whole body is like a harbor at dawn;
We know that our master has left us for the day.”
—Robert Bly (b. 1926)
“The horseman on the pale horse is Pestilence. He follows the wars.”
—Ardel Wray, and Mark Robson. Explaining why he is taking pains to protect his troops from plague (1945)