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What is a seneschal?

What is a seneschal? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A steward, particularly (historical) one in charge of a medieval nobleman's estate.
  2. (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.
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In May, Aimeri, Viscount of Thouars, who was chosen by John to be his seneschal in Anjou, attacked Tours in order to capture Arthur of Brittany.
The church was built in 1792 by seneschal Arghire Cuza and his wife, Ilinca.
Reappointed seneschal of Normandy, he was killed in the Battle of Montlhéry.
In Anjou, Stephen of Tours was replaced as seneschal and temporarily imprisoned for fiscal mismanagement.
This dispossession was ratified by the treaty of Meaux-Paris in 1229 and the city became a royal jurisdiction of a seneschal.
A quick visit to the King's seneschal confirmed that he could indeed reclaim his men, and that they would be dispatched to the manor at Cosh that afternoon.

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