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5 unusual facts about seneschal


Andelat

He knew the name of the particular jurisdictions and made it subordinate to the Seneschal of Riom.

Ela of Salisbury, 3rd Countess of Salisbury

Stephen Longespée, Seneschal of Gascony and Justiciar of Ireland (1216–1260), married as her second husband 1243/1244 Emmeline de Ridelsford, daughter of Walter de Ridelsford and Annora Vitré, by whom he had two daughters: Ela, wife of Sir Roger La Zouche, and Emmeline (1252–1291), the second wife of Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly.

John Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings

Hastings fought from the 1290s in the Scottish, Irish and French wars of King Edward I and was later Seneschal of Aquitaine.

John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft

He was appointed Treasurer of the Household (1406–1408), Chief Butler of England in 1407, Treasurer of the Exchequer (1408–1409), Seneschal of Aquitaine (1415–1423), Councillor of Regency to Henry VI (1422–1443) and Lord Steward of the Household (1426–1432).

Lawrence William Adamson

Lawrence William Adamson, the second, but only surviving son of Lawrence Adamson, HM's Seneschal of the Isle of Man and barrister-at-law, was born on 16 July 1829.


Ahlden House

The west wing is the main building of the mansion, which Duke Christian the Elder of Brunswick-Lüneburg had built by his seneschal (Drost), Johann Behr, in 1613.

Battle of Bergerac

An Anglo-Gascon Army commanded by Henry of Grosmont, Earl of Derby, defeated a French force under Henri de Montigny, Seneschal of Périgord, outside the walls of Bergerac, leading to the loss of the town.

Diane d'Andoins

Emancipated on 6 August 1567 (at the tender age of 13), she was married on Thursday 21 November 1568 to Philibert of Gramont, Seneschal of Béarn, Count of Gramont and of Guiche, Viscount of Aster and of Louvigny, Lord of Lescure, and Governor of Bayonne (1552–1580) who was, at the time only 15 himself.

Georg, Truchsess von Waldburg

Georg III Truchsess von Waldburg-Zeil (Waldsee, January 25 1488 – Bad Waldsee, May 29 1531), also known as Bauernjörg, was a German Army Commander in the German Peasants' War.

Government of the Carolingian Empire

The household sometimes led the army (e.g. Seneschal Andorf against the Bretons in 786).

Guglielmo Tocco

By his first marriage to Giovanna Torelli he had one son, Pietro Tocco, seneschal of Robert of Taranto and Count of Martina.

James Audley

He was afterwards governor of Aquitaine and great seneschal of Poitou, and took part in the capture of the town of La Roche-sur-Yon by Edmund, earl of Cambridge.

Manor of Glasnevin

The officers of the manor consisted of a seneschal, registrar and marshal, who were appointed by the Bishop of Kildare, as Dean of Christ Church, Dublin.

Pedro Manrique de Lara

It lists as its confirmants "Henry king of England, Randulf bishop of Angers, Joscius bishop of Acre, Count Geoffrey of Brittany, John Lackland, Count John, seneschal Maurice de Craon of Anjou, Count Juan Díaz" (H. rex Angl′, Rand′ episcopus Andeg′, Choce episcopus de Acre, comes Gaufredus Britannie, J. sans terra, comes J., Mauricius de Creon senescallus, Andeg′, J. didaci comitis).

Philip De Carteret, 6th of St Ouen

During the Wars of the Roses, Queen Margaret, the wife of Henry VI, made an agreement with Pierre de Brézé, Comte de Maulevrier, the seneschal of Normandy, to raise an army, in aid of the Lancastrian cause, to capture Jersey and in the process to provide a refuge if it should be needed in the event of Yorkist success.

Polykarp Leyser the Elder

In 1573 he was ordained and was granted a parish in Göllersdorf in lower Austria, where he joined the imperial councillor and erbtruchsess Michael Ludwig von Puchheim (1512–1580), who introduced him to court life under Maximilian II.

Raugraves

The main properties of the Raugraves lie south of the Nahe in the Alsenz, south of Kirn, where the seat of the Becherbach, near Alzey, where they were seneschals of the Palatine counts, as well as in Simmern.

Robert le Maçon

Having been captured by Jean de Langeac, seneschal of Auvergne, in August 1426, he was shut up for three months in the château of Usson.

Roland Deschain

According to a supplemental prose story by Robin Furth included in The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born (issues #7 & #2, respectively), Roland's ancestry traces back to Arthur Eld and Emmanuelle Deschain, the daughter of his seneschal, Kay Deschain, while the Crimson King's ancestry traces back to an affair between Arthur and the Crimson Queen.


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