How To Use Seneschal In A Sentence
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This meant that any Gascon appealing against the verdict of one of the sub-seneschals could not go directly to Paris.
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Wherefore, letting call the seneschal, he was fain to know at what point things stood all and after discreetly ordained that which he judged would be well and would content the company for such time as his seignory should endure.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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The seneschal began presumably by being the major-domo of the German barbarian princes who settled in the empire, and was therefore the predecessor of the mayors of the palace of the Merovingian kings.
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Lansar Raasharu, my father's seneschal, sat there, too, along with Mesh's other greatest lords.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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In Ponthieu the seneschal's functions did not differ substantially from those or the seneschal of Gascony.
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To oversee his baillis and seneschals, Louis instituted enquêteurs, travelling inspectors-general who were authorized to investigate abuses by royal officials and redress grievances.
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Originally purely a household officer, the task of the steward, or seneschal, was to place dishes on the royal table, but like many comparable offices it gathered other duties and rose in prestige.
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France, to many of the chief officers of the crown — as great seneschal, great master, great chamberlain, great equerry, great pantler, great huntsman, great falconer.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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There was a knock on the door, and Elspeth joined Darkwind as Tremane's aide-now styled his "seneschal," though he still acted and probably thought of himself as a military aide-de-camp-entered diffidently.
Storm Breaking
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HIS FIRST CONFRONTATION WITH the seneschal had been a resounding victory.
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ABBEY DES FONTAINES 10:00 PM THE SENESCHAL FOUND GEOFFREY.
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They'd stayed silent during his confrontation with the seneschal, but each member had listened with an intensity that signaled comprehension.
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‘Death by hanging, your Majesty,’ the seneschal immediately responded, a grave tone to his rich voice.
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Lauretta, become queen, let call the seneschal and bade him look that the tables be set in the pleasant valley somewhat earlier than of wont, so they might return to the palace at their leisure; after which she instructed him what he should do what while her sovranty lasted.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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The royal _bailli_ or seneschal (no real difference existed between the two offices, the names merely changing according to the district), was for long the king's principal representative in the provinces, [v. 03 p. 0219] and the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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He was ushered by Benoit, the elderly body-servant, rather grandiloquently called the seneschal, into the ground-floor room known traditionally as the library.
Scaramouche
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“Say ye made a mistake — say ye made a mistake, Mysie,” replied the faithful seneschal, in a soothing and undertoned voice;
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Whereupon the queen called the seneschal and asked him who bawled so loud, and what was the occasion of the uproar.
The Decameron, Volume II
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I sallied from Castle Treddles, determined to make the best of my way to Duntarkin, and my cicerone hung by me for a little way, giving loose to his love of talking — an opportunity which, situated as he was, the seneschal of a deserted castle, was not likely to occur frequently.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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Edward VI notwithstanding, and that the holding of wardmotes in the borough would materially interfere with the duties of an ancient officer known as a seneschal or steward of Southwark, the petition could not be complied with, except by application to the legislature, and that such a course would neither be expedient or advisable.
London and the Kingdom - Volume I
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Fiammetta sang, which done, they conversed of the Ladies 'Vale, waxing eloquent in praise thereof: insomuch that the king called the seneschal, and bade him have some beds made ready and carried thither on the morrow, that any that were so minded might there take their siesta.
The Decameron, Volume II
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Much was the debate between the ladies and the young men; but ultimately they all took the king's counsel for useful and seemly and determined to do as he proposed; whereupon, calling the seneschal, he bespoke him of the manner which he should hold on the ensuing morning and after, having dismissed the company until supper-time, he rose to his feet.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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First, her identity as a knight is determined by her relation to Amoret, which has been secured by her martial victory over her rival and affirmed by the court's seneschal.
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The seneschal also carried out the mandates of the king in miscellaneous administrative matters, such as restoring people to possession of their property or directing the profits of the bailiffship of Montsegure to the repair and maintenance of the gates of that town.
The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320
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The seneschals were much like baillis but they were given border territories that required frequent military action.
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But, lobsters and lollipops! it is a good thing the seneschal was a pompous fool.
Prince Caspian
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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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In the great medieval households of bygone days the Seneschal was in charge of the castle, estate or home.
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Geoffrey went silent, and the seneschal suddenly detected a maturity in his aide that he'd never noticed before.