[a. Fr. antrustion, or med.L. antrustiōn-em (in Salic Law, etc.), f. OHG. trôst trust, protection, security, fidelity; latinized in Old Frankish documents as trustis. The prefix is prob. AND- toward; but no Teutonic word so compounded is known.] A voluntary follower of the Old Frankish princes at the period of the national migrations.
1848. Hallam, Mid. Ages (1878), I. ii. I. 156, note. In one of Marculfus’s precedents, l. i. f. 18, we have the form by which an Antrustion was created. Ibid., I. ii. 306. Chilperic put this down by the help of his faithful Antrustions.
1875. Stubbs, Const. Hist., I. ix. 254. None but the king could have antrustions.
