Definition of Seneschel
Seneschal, an important functionary at the courts of Frankish
princes, whose duty it was to superintend household feasts and
ceremonies, functions equivalent to those of the English High Steward.
- Wikipedia
Sen"es*chal (?), n. [OF.
seneschal, LL. seniscalcus, of Teutonic origin; cf.
Goth. sineigs old, skalks, OHG. scalch, AS.
scealc. Cf. Senior, Marshal.] An officer in
the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the
superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward.
Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given
high military commands.
Then marshaled feast
Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale.
Milton.
Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first
established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called
baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in
his demains. Hallam.
Sen"es*chal (?), n. [OF.
seneschal, LL. seniscalcus, of Teutonic origin; cf.
Goth. sineigs old, skalks, OHG. scalch, AS.
scealc. Cf. Senior, Marshal.] An officer in
the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the
superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward.
Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given
high military commands.
Then marshaled feast
Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale.
Milton.
Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first
established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called
baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in
his demains. Hallam.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A steward in charge of a medieval nobleman's estate.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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