The chatelains were marquesses and counts and knights of Malta and seigneurs of a dozen domains of the northlands as well as of Provence.
When feudalism, through the formation of larger political units by the extension of kingly rights, began to decline, the chatelains preserved their prestige by supporting the propaganda to redeem the Holy Sepulcher.
The power and status ofchatelains necessarily varied greatly at different periods and places.
The master of this feudal household had a system of bookkeeping which modern chatelains might adopt with advantage.
And the ties are numerous which have joined the chatelains of these feudal chateaux and courts of the Midi with those of the Domain of France.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chatelains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
