I guess the topic is right here, please correct me in case I am wrong.

The question is: Who has the right to name a squire into a knight?

I mean is every knight able to declare a squire into a knight or has it to be a banneret or even a noble (starting with baron)?

I know, that knights need income to live as knights, but my question focuses on the title. I think, it is important for the late phases, while in the early phases few people care, if you were knighted by the right person.

Or does it not matter at all?

I can't remember the question answered in one of the books, but could depend on a lack of memory.

Every Knight is able to declare a squire into a knight in early period !
But later nobles (and more later the King) are able to this !

I think you can found more informations in each part of Great Pendragon Campaign !

What Caball said.

In addition to the need for a regular income there's also a one-off cost to make a knight if the candidate doesn't have the necessary accoutrements (armour, weapons, horse).

Regards
Luke

I would say Caball has it exactly reverse. In the early periods, only lords may make knights. Later, pesky individuals like Lancelot change the custom.

Lancelot himself is a king, though.

Lancelot himself is a king, though.

In exile, mind you. And he acts more the knight errant than he does lord.

The question is: Who has the right to name a squire into a knight?

The king introduces the concept, other great lords who can support knights then pick it up.
In Anarchy anyone can claim the right.
Later, Arthur makes it such that only the king or his designated representative can do so

In the Great Pendragon Campaign (p 270):

Bestowing knighthood is established as a royal prerogative now, no longer practiced by mere knights or lesser barons. Only kings make knights, or their designated representative such a Round Table Knight.