castellan
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkæstən/
castellan (plural castellans)
- The governor or caretaker of a castle or keep.
- 1851, Luther Calvin Saxton, Fall of Poland, Volume 2, Charles Scribner, page 442 ↗,
- 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.
- 2003, Benno Teschke, The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics, and the Making of Modern International Relations, Verso, page 86 ↗,
- 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.
- 2015, Christine Shaw, Barons and Castellans: The Military Nobility of Renaissance Italy, Koninklijke Brill, page 47 ↗,
- 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.
- 1851, Luther Calvin Saxton, Fall of Poland, Volume 2, Charles Scribner, page 442 ↗,
- French: châtelain
- Italian: castellano
- Spanish: castellano
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