Castellan
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A castellan, or constable, was the governor of a castle in medieval Europe. Its surrounding territory was referred to as the castellany.
The fortress of Hohensalzburg, Austria, had a ministerial castellan
Ministerialis
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The ministeriales were a legally unfree but socially elite class of knights, administrators, and officials in the High Middle Ages in the Holy Roman Empire, drawn from a mix of servile origins, free c
Castellan
…much concern for their overlord's demands. This changed as kings grew in power and as the Holy Roman Emperors replaced recalcitrant vassals with rival ministerial appointments. A castellan was almost always male, but could occasionally be female, as when, in 1194, Beatrice of Bourbourg inherited her father's…
Charlemagne, Pippin, and a ministerial clerk; a 10th-century copy of the original
Portrait of the famous ministerial Ulrich von Liechtenstein (1200–1275) from the Codex Manesse