What does castellan mean?
Castellan means (obsolete) A feudal lord with a fortified manor..
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/ˈkæstələn/ · noun
(obsolete) A feudal lord with a fortified manor..
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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Castellan means (obsolete) A feudal lord with a fortified manor..
Common synonyms include chatelain.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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