📚 noun • entry_id 48868
castellan
/ˈkæstələn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
castellano
The governor or caretaker entrusted to oversee a castle or keep for its lord.
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…
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 for…
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