Castellan

Definitions

1. A feudal lord with a fortified manor.
   obsolete
2. The governor or caretaker entrusted to oversee a castle or keep for its lord.
   historical

Equivalents

Examples

“The inferior secular senators are ninety-two, containing the ten crown-officers, and eighty-two castellans. The latter are again divided into thirty-three great castellans, and forty-nine little castellans.”

“Castellans, often exercising control⟳ over a few villages and half a dozen small lordships, transformed their banal lordships into quasi-sovereign mini-states, independent of royal or comital sanction or control⟳.”

“The wave⟳ of attacks on the castellans in 1511 followed faction-fighting in Udine, in which castellans and their families were massacred by supporters of the Savorgnan.”

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