Gilles Binchois (c. 1400 - 1460), an early 15th-century Franco-Flemish composer evidently named after his birthplace, Binche, near Mons. He was esteemed by contemporary and later theorists as second only to Dunstable[?] and Dufay[?].
... its simplest, it refers to an adherent of a monarch or royal family.
Of the more specific uses of the term, the most common include:
1. A supporter of King Charles I ...