The word seneschal (/ˈsɛnəʃəl/) can have several different meanings, all of which reflect certain types of supervising or administering in a historic...
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Officers of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (redirect from Seneschal of Jerusalem)
officers of the kingdom of Jerusalem: the constable, the marshal, the seneschal, the chamberlain (which were known as the "Grand Offices"), the butler...
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HMS Seneschal was a S-class submarine of the third batch built for the Royal Navy during World War II. She survived the war and was sold for scrap in...
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Adalard, also known as Adalhard or Alard, and called the Seneschal, was a Frankish nobleman of the 9th century. He served as warden of the Norman march...
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Ednyfed Fychan (section Seneschal)
full name Ednyfed Fychan ap Cynwrig, was a Welsh warrior who became Seneschal to the Kingdom of Gwynedd in Northern Wales, serving Llywelyn the Great...
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The Seneschal of Normandy was an officer carrying out and managing the domestic affairs of the lord of the Duchy of Normandy. During the course of the...
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The Seneschal's House stands at the corner of Halton Brow and Main Street in Runcorn, Liverpool City Region. It is recorded in the National Heritage List...
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Diane de Poitiers (section Grand Seneschal of Normandy)
married to Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, Count of Maulévrier, and Grand Seneschal of Normandy, who was 39 years her senior. He was a grandson of King Charles...
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The Seneschal of the Agenais was an officer carrying out and managing the domestic affairs of the lord of the former county and district of Agenais. During...
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nobleman from the Saintonge. He served as Seneschal of Gascony between 1214 and 1217 and briefly as Seneschal of Poitou in 1216. He went on the Fifth Crusade...
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The Seneschal of Ponthieu was an officer carrying out and managing the domestic affairs of the lord of the County of Ponthieu. During the course of the...
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Seneschal of the Realm, riksdrots (Swedish), rigsdrost (Danish), drottsete (Norwegian), or valtakunnandrotsi (Finnish), (other plausible translations...
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The Seneschal of Périgord was an officer carrying out and managing the domestic affairs of the lord of the County of Périgord. During the course of the...
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Sir Thomas Coke, Seneschal of Gascony, was a 14th-century English noble. Coke was the eldest son of Thomas Coke, Lord of Dudlington. He was created a...
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The Seneschal of Anjou (siniscallus, Vulgar or old Frankish Latin, also dapifer) was an officer of an aristocratic household assigned to manage the domestic...
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Jeanne des Roches (redirect from Jeanne des Roches, Seneschal of Anjou)
de Genneteil, de Precigné, de Agon, and de Craon; and the suo jure seneschal of Anjou, from 1222. The seneschalship passed to her husband, Amaury I...
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The Seneschal of the Saintonge was an officer carrying out and managing the domestic affairs of the lord of the district of the Saintonge, a province...
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The Seneschal of the Landes was an officer carrying out and managing the domestic affairs of the lord of the district of Landes, Bayonne and Labourd in...
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Duchy of Normandy (redirect from Seneschals of Normandy)
am the Duke of Normandy!"[failed verification] Below is a list of the seneschals (sénéchal de Normandie) and governors of Normandy (gouverneur de Normandie)...
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The Seneschal of Poitou was an officer carrying out and managing the domestic affairs of the lord of the County of Poitou. During the course of the twelfth...
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30 October 1476) was lieutenant general of Provence, seneschal of Rene of Anjou and grand seneschal of Provence. Martyrdom of Saint Maurice and his Comrades...
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John Harpeden I (category Seneschals of the Saintonge)
France during the Hundred Years' War. He served as seneschal of Saintonge (1371–72) and seneschal of Aquitaine (1385–89). His descendants became French...
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The Seneschal of Gascony was an officer carrying out and managing the domestic affairs of the lord of the Duchy of Gascony. During the course of the twelfth...
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Vice Great Seneschal of Ireland or Deputy Lord High Steward of Ireland, is not a formal title of office, but describes a functional role under the aegis...
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Officers of the Principality of Antioch (redirect from Seneschal of Antioch)
Kingdom of Jerusalem in its selection of great offices: constable, marshal, seneschal, chamberlain, butler, chancellor and at certain times also bailiff. The...
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List of captains, lieutenants and lords deputies of English Calais (redirect from Seneschal of Calais)
officials set up after Edward III took Calais consisted of captain, marshal, seneschal and constable. But changes were soon seen. Calais refers properly here...
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Jean de Werchin (redirect from John of Werchin, seneschal of Hainaut)
Werchin, Walincourt and Cysoing, as well as the hereditary office of seneschal of Hainaut, which had been in his family since about 1234. Shortly after...
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Hugh de Vivonne (category Seneschals of Poitou)
behalf of King Henry III of England. In 1221 he served his first term as Seneschal of Gascony. In 1230 he went on a special mission in connection with Henry...
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Fitz Ralph to the important post of seneschal of Normandy. In Anjou, Stephen of Tours was replaced as seneschal and temporarily imprisoned for fiscal...
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