BRABANCIONES, in middle age writers, a kind of Netherland soldiery, infamous for rapine, being lit-
the better than commissioned banditti, who hired themselves to fight for any that could pay them best. The word is variously written by the historians of those days; all given them from the country of Brabant, which was the chief nursery of those troops. They are also frequently confounded with the Routiers, Routiers, Raptarii, Ruterarii, Corteraux, &c.