seneschal

IPA: sˈɛnʌʃʌɫ

A steward, particularly (historical) one in charge of a medieval nobleman's estate.
(historical) 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.

Examples of "seneschal" in Sentences

The seneschal connection did it for me.
Louis the Pious made him seneschal of the Empire.
Nigel is by then made seneschal of the Castle of Vannes.
By June 1183 he held the rank of seneschal of the Order.
Later on, the king and the seneschal go on a hunting trip.
For this reason he was sent to Aquitaine, to serve as seneschal.
Augmentation of Honor as Grand Seneschal of the Kingdom of Naples.
Augmentation of Honour as Grand Seneschal of the Kingdom of Naples.
The seneschal returns to the lodge and finds the bedroom door locked.
A seneschal was an officer in the houses of important nobles in the Middle Ages.