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Meaning of "seneschal"
seneschal (adjective) - Referring to or characteristic of a seneschal, a medieval official responsible for managing the household of a noble or royal figure
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- A steward, particularly (historical) one in charge of a medieval nobleman's estate.
- An officer of the crown in late medieval and early modern France who served as a kind of governor and chief justice of the royal court in Normandy and Languedoc.
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Seneschal will take you to town.
The most important office in those that were palatine was that of seneschal.
The seneschal took its place.
The wife suggests the idea of killing the seneschal by preparing a bath of boiling water.
A seneschal investigates to learn how this paradox can be.
About this date he was made seneschal of Normandy.
The seneschal consulted some papers.
At this time he became seneschal of Poitou.
Seneschal tried to substitute the word for the deed.
A drost or drossaard was a kind a bailiff in the Low countries see landdrost and seneschal.
Seneschal was wide awake.
Bermond protested and the Seneschal seized his diocese and his own property.
A seneschal was an officer in the houses of important nobles in the Middle Ages.
The king made him a knight and gave him the title of Grand Seneschal.
The seneschal returns to the lodge and finds the bedroom door locked.
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Espiens was then placed in the Seneschal of Nerac.
During coronations the seneschal would hold the royal sceptre and oversee the coronation feast.
His nephew Baldwin then made him seneschal of Jerusalem.
The Seneschal can not be on the losing side.
He was also the hereditary seneschal of the County of Champagne.
Of seneschal or steward of the liberty of St.
Osbern the Steward was seneschal to two dukes of Normandy.
As a seneschal Havering but had little income and had only a limited jurisdiction.
It was after this episode that the Seneschal of Mende disappeared.
The Seneschal will be appointed by committee chair by the Seigneur.
Thierri of Loos the seneschal.
Arnold is confirmed as seneschal of Kilkenny and given custody of Kilkenny castle.
The titular counts of Champagne also inherited the post of seneschal of France.
The seneschal de la Marche.
He was appointed Admiral of France and remained great seneschal of Guyenne.
The jurisdiction of the seneschal of Abbeville comes from the Parisian parliament.
Returning to Poitou he was a second time seneschal for Henry III.
Seneschal of the Order of the Templars accept the tributes from your Brothers.
Grandson of the Seneschal of the Bishop of Dol.
Nádasdy Ferenc seneschal.
Ralph served as the seneschal of France during the reign of his cousin Louis VII.
Adalard the Seneschal.
The Seneschal is appointed by the Seigneur.
William Marshall seneschal.
The Court of the Seneschal is presided over by the Seneschal.
The Croan family held the hereditary office of Seneschal of Anjou and Maine.
The Grand Seneschal is another important member of the Circle.
See also Seneschal.
Seneschal of Jerusalem.
He became the Seneschal of Bourbonnais.
Seneschal of Munster.
They were invested to Adalard the Seneschal and Robert the Strong respectively.
Seneschal of Aquitaine.
Later on, the king and the seneschal go on a hunting trip.
The seneschal was given powers of martial law, which allowed execution without trial by jury.
