Old French

Noun

conroi m ‎(oblique plural conrois, nominative singular conrois, nominative plural conroi)

1. In the Middle Ages, a group of five to ten knights who trained and fought together.
   • c. 1240, Tristan en prose, ed. 1976, ISBN 9789004042889, page 160:

     Tristanz qui ne mostre mie semblant de couardise, s'adresce vers un conroi de chevaliers qu'il voit venir.

     Tristan who showed no signs of cowardice addressed a group of knights that he saw arrive

References

• Stephen Morillo: The Battle of Hastings: sources and interpretations, 1996, ISBN 9780851156194, p. 87-88
• Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue françoise, Briasson, 1750, vol. 1 p. 421