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  2. Seneschal - Wikipedia

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    The word seneschal (/ ˈ s ɛ n ə ʃ əl /) can have several different meanings, all of which reflect certain types of supervising or administering in a historic context.Most commonly, a seneschal was a senior position filled by a court appointment within a royal, ducal, or noble household during the Middle Ages and early Modern period – historically a steward or majordomo of a medieval ...

  3. Dish-bearers and butlers in Anglo-Saxon England - Wikipedia

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    [2] The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (DMLBS) defines discifer as dish-bearer or sewer, [a] [4] and dapifer as an attendant at meals, a sewer or a steward. [5] Historians often translate discifer as seneschal, [6] but Gautier objects that the word seneschal is not recorded in England before the Norman Conquest. [2]

  4. Seneschalcy of Armagnac - Wikipedia

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    Here, at the rate of two daily sessions, worked the seneschal, appointed by the king, the juge-mage or lieutenant general, a senior lieutenant, a civil and criminal lieutenant, advisors and many subordinates, clerks, and others. The prisons, where the executioners operated — the last of whom was Jean Rascat (1759-1846) — were located in the ...

  5. Officers of the Principality of Antioch - Wikipedia

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    The Principality of Antioch mirrored the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in its selection of great offices: constable, marshal, seneschal, chamberlain, butler, chancellor and at certain times also bailiff. The officers of the Principality of Antioch are listed below. Dates are dates of attestation, not necessarily beginning and end dates of tenure.

  6. Officers of the Kingdom of Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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    The seneschal administered the coronation ceremony, oversaw the Haute Cour in the king's absence, administered royal castles, and managed the royal finances and revenue. The seneschal's power was over only viscounts and not castellans, and the constable was still superior to the seneschal due in part to the kingdom's constant state of war. [3]

  7. Society for Creative Anachronism - Wikipedia

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    The Society as a whole, each kingdom, and each local group within a kingdom, all have a standard group of officers with titles loosely based on medieval equivalents. [25] Seneschal: The seneschal acts as the administrative head, or president of the group. Every local group is required to have a local seneschal who reports to the kingdom's ...

  8. Ywain - Wikipedia

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    A lion he rescues from a dragon proves to be a loyal companion and a symbol of knightly virtue, and helps him complete his quest, which includes defeating the giant Harpins and two demons. In the end, Laudine, rescued from the stake, allows him and his lion to return to her fortress.

  9. Titles of the Welsh Court - Wikipedia

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    Later this office name was replaced with the term Seneschal and came to be the principal diplomat and executive of the court: a feudal prime minister and foreign minister. Brawdwr Llys, meaning "court judge" — a senior legal officer who arbitrated on affairs of the realm; a feudal Minister of Justice. Penhebogydd, the chief falconer.