Seneschal
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A seneschal is most commonly, a senior position filled by a court appointment within a royal, ducal, or noble household during the Middle Ages and early Modern period – historically a steward or major
Seneschal from the Holy Roman Empire
Awarding of the office of Truchsess to the House of Waldburg
Ednyfed Fychan
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Ednyfed Fychan ap Cynfrig was a Welsh nobleman who served as distain or seneschal of the Kingdom of Gwynedd in North Wales. Ednyfed held this position under the princes of Gwynedd for almost thirty ye
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…Gwynedd, those being Hwfa ap Cynddelw and Llywarch ap Bran, both of the Fifteen Tribes of Wales. Then merely a century later, the role was occupied by Ednyfed Fychan (c. 1200s), and later on his sons Sir Tudur ap Ednyfed Fychan and Goronwy ab Ednyfed also became Seneschals to the Kings of Gwynedd. Fychan's family…
Ednyfed's name (ednẏuet) in the rubrication of his son's elegy, from NLW MS 6680B f. 30r
Commotes and cantrefi of Wales in the period of Ednyfed's lifetime
St Trillo's church, Rhos-on-Sea, Ednyfed's chapel