Trabant (military)

: satellites) was a historical name for an attendant or a lifeguard, especially in the Middle Ages, who usually travelled on foot (as opposed to horseback).

[2] The trabant guards frequently formed the core of Household Divisions or, as in Brandenburg, field troops as well.

[1] The Gardes du Corps were formed from the 2 companies of trabants serving Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, who fought with him in 1675 at the Battle of Fehrbellin.

[3] In 1521, the Swedish nobleman Gustav Eriksson enrolled personal body guards from Dalarna that followed him in the liberation war against the Danes.

Charles XII of Sweden made himself the captain over the reformed Drabant Corps in 1700, which had a lot of initial success in the Great Northern War.