Meaning of châtelain | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Alternative spelling of chatelain.
   alt-of, alternative
3. Synonym of castellan: the lord of a castle; a caretaker entrusted to oversee a castle for its lord.

Examples

“The edict of the Duchess Iolande, in 1476, enjoining the châtelains of Pignerol, Cavour, and Lucerna, to cause all the Vaudois of the Italian Alps to return within the pale of the Catholic Church, could not but affect in some measure those on the right bank of the Po; […]”

“The châtelains of the tenth and eleventh centuries were not the same officers as those who are found in the latter part of the eleventh and later.”

“The Dictionnaire Historique gives a list of the châtelains of Glérolles from 1812 to 1798.”

“And so, in the autumn of 1456, he proceeded manu militari to expel the men Hunyadi had set in place, except for the châtelains of Făgăraș, firmly entrenched behind their walls.”

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