At the same time he writes to his seneschal with instructions to look after the matter, as it lies very near to his heart.
Thereupon the seneschal assessed the Count of Foix to the extent of three hundred and two livres eleven sols nine deniers, which the latter refused to pay, and appealed to the king, with what result is not known.
In 1288 Philippe le Bel writes to the Seneschal of Carcassonne that Raymond Vitalis of Avignon is exercising the office of notary in Carcassonne, though his maternal grandfather, Roger Isarn, is said to have been burned for heresy.
If this is the fact, the seneschal is ordered to deprive him of the position.
In 1246 he ordered his seneschal to provide for the inquisitors competent prisons in Carcassonne and Béziers, and to furnish daily bread and water for the prisoners.
In August he writes that the sum proposed is not satisfactory, and the seneschal is instructed to extort all that he can.
Charles of Anjou, who was equally greedy, found time amid his Italian distractions to see that his Seneschal of Provence and Forcalquier kept the Inquisition supplied on the same basis as did the king in the royal dominions.
The Bishop of Rodez was conducting a vigorous episcopal inquisition, and at Najac had handed over a certain Hugues Paraire as a heretic, whom the seneschal burned "incontinently" and collected over one thousand livres Tournois from his estate.
The seneschalof the place chimed in, "But, my lord, if you remit these and similar legal dues, you will be absolutely unable to hold the land at all.
This man had been seneschal of Anjou under the king's father, and was well affected to the bishop; but he was between the devil and the deep sea.
The abbess' officers seized the delinquent, and instituted a process for its condemnation before the seneschal of the convent.
May 5 the seneschalappealed to the bishops sitting in council at Beziers to give him assistance, as they had done so energetically at Montsegur.
In the following August the Count of Toulouse and the Seneschal of Carcassonne were called in as arbitrators, and in March, 1238, a peace was concluded.
In this same year, 1293, the Seneschal of Carcassonne is found instructing Aimeric, the Viscount of Narbonne, to execute royal letters ordering aid to be rendered to the inquisitors there.
At one time they kept in their Castle of Dourne no less than thirty perfected heretics, and they had procured the assassination of Andre Chaulet, Seneschal of Carcassonne, because he had endeavored to obtain evidence against them.
In the early spring of 1255 this last refuge was besieged by Pierre d'Auteuil, the royal Seneschal of Carcassonne.
Ulenspiegel budged not, but theseneschal came forward to the dame.
The seneschal went up to him with a threatening fist, but Bibulus Schnouffius threw himself on the man and bit him in the leg, and the seneschal tumbled down in affright crying out: "Help!
She sat down then on the bench beside the doorstep; the seneschal did the same.
He was suspected, for example, of having apprised the Seneschal of Imokelly that 'two choice persons' had stolen into the Seneschal's camp to murder him.
Another time the Seneschal of Imokelly with fifteen horsemen and sixty foot lay in wait for him at a ford between Youghal and Cork.
The Familiar gently remarked that the weather was roughish, when the seneschal rushed into the room in a dreadful state of terror at the storm.
And go the seneschal did, wondering very much at the uncommon interest his master seemed to be taking in vulgar, sublunary things.
They afterwards talked of the latter end of that great martyr, Mr George Wishart, and the seneschal informed him of several things concerning the same that were most edifying, though sorrowful to hear.
The seneschal to this command said nothing, but rose, and my grandfather likewise rose.
Fierce was the wrath of the king when the seneschal awoke him early next morning with the news that Richard's room in the tower was empty, and that both Osmond and the horse Fierbras were gone.
So when the seneschal of the castle or the king's steward came to make inquiries for the noble prisoner, Richard would turn his head slowly and languidly, and answer the questions put to him in a soft, tired voice.
I would not tell you before, for the eyes of Raoul the seneschal are sharp, and I feared lest yours should be brighter than need be.
And on All Hallowmass at the great feast, sat in the hall the three kings, and Sir Kay seneschal served in the hall, and Sir Lucas the butler, and Sir Griflet.
He was seneschal of Aquitain, and of all those countries secured to the English by the treaty of Bretigny.
He was made Seneschal of Poictou at the request of the barons and knights of that country.
With a quarter-staff in one hand and a pistol in the other, he held the Seneschal and his kerns at bay, and brought his little body of troops through the ambush without the loss of one man.
The servants were arrayed in silk, and the seneschal changed his dress of richest stuffs and jewels four times in the course of the banquet.
Grasse attained to great prosperity under the celebrated seneschal Romeo de Villeneuve, a remarkable man, whose story may here be told.
It was probably a sense of the danger of leaving at home such a centre of all efforts after reform that brought Henry to send him in the autumn of 1248 as Seneschal of Gascony to save for the Crown the last of its provinces over sea.
Marshal of Burgundy, and Grand Seneschal of Provence.
He was one of the wisest councillors of Philippe le Bel and Charles le Téméraire, and after the death of the latter was created Grand Seneschal of Burgundy.
And even the great men were under the same oppression from the greater: for the Earl of Desmond forcibly took away the Seneschal of Imokilly's corn from his own land, though he was one of the most considerable gentlemen in Munster.
A restless and feverish night had passed away; and, as morning came, the ancient Seneschal of Burgundy showed some inclination to fall asleep; but the first braying of the trumpets roused him; and he eagerly demanded what those sounds meant.
The informer, we are told by the chroniclers, was Sir Thomas le Blount, the King's Seneschal of the Household.
To Kay, the masterseneschal of his house, a loyal and chivalrous knight, the king granted all Anjou and Angers.
Ah, God, but Arthur had men for hisseneschal and cupbearer.
When Arthur heard these lamentable tidings he called to him Kay the seneschal and Bedevere his cupbearer, for he would open his counsel to no other man.
Under 1209 it says, "Gelart seneschal of Gloucester fortified (cadarnhaaod) the castle of Builth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seneschal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
