Seneschal
Seneschal , noun
[Old French seneschal, Late Latin seniscalcus, of Teutonic origin; compare Gothic sineigs old, skalks, Old High German scalch, Anglo-Saxon scealc. Compare Senior, Marshal.]
An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands.
Then marshaled feast
Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale.
Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in his demains.