It first appears as a term of reproach and contempt, applied to the followers of King Charles I in June 1642:ġ642 (June 10) Propositions of Parlt. "Cavalier" is chiefly associated with the Royalist supporters of King Charles I in his struggle with Parliament in the English Civil War. Sir Anthony van Dyck ca.1638, Lord John Stuart and his brother Lord Bernard.
The Wounded Cavalier by William Shakespeare Burton English Civil War Shakespeare used the word cavaleros to describe an overbearing swashbuckler or swaggering gallant in Henry IV, Part 2, in which Shallow says "I'll drink to Master Bardolph, and to all the cavaleros about London." Cavalier derives from the same Latin root as the French word chevalier (as well as the Spanish word caballero), the Vulgar Latin word caballarius, meaning “horseman”.
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