{"id":36,"date":"2015-06-02T15:13:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T23:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housemajor.com\/sca\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2026-03-23T16:28:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:28:52","slug":"seneschal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montengarde.org\/Welcome\/officers\/seneschal\/","title":{"rendered":"Seneschal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Badge-Seneschal-2\"<\/a><\/figure><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Seneschal was the senior steward in charge of all ceremonies and domestic arrangements as well as the administration of justice in a large medieval household.<\/p>\n

The word is Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin “seniscalus”, from a Germanic compound of words meaning \u2018old\u2019 and \u2018servant\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Seneschal Badge (above) is “Gules, a key fesswise Or” and is recognition of the fact that, traditionally, the Seneschal was entrusted with “the keys to the castle”.<\/p>\n

The Seneschal is the legal business representative of The Barony of Montengarde.<\/p>\n

Seneschals sign all contracts; make sure that things are done pursuant to the restrictions of all modern laws, Corpora, and Kingdom law; work with the Chatelaines to handle all public relations; and normally conduct the monthly business meetings\/curia.<\/p>\n

In modern terms, the Seneschal is the Chairperson of the Board, the Greater* Officers are the Board of Directors, and the Lesser** Officers are the Operations Management Team.<\/p>\n

* Greater Officers are those positions that the SCA requires groups to have in
\norder to meet the legal guidelines defined by SCA By-Laws.<\/p>\n

** Lesser Officers are those positions that are not officially required by SCA By-Laws
\nbut that make the day-to-day operations of the group so much easier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Seneschal<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Sir Quon Jien<\/h3>\n\n\n
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seneschal@montengarde.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deputy Seneschal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Duchess Kiera the Shadowed<\/h3>\n\n\n
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deputy-seneschal@montengarde.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Events Deputy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mistress Kathryn inghean Ui Mhaonaigh<\/h3>\n\n\n
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deputy-events@montengarde.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lost and Found<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Master Tygar of Skagen<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Seneschal Resources:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The SCA Organizational Handbook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SCA Society Seneschal Page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kingdom of Avacal Waivers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Resources Will Be Added As They Are Made Available<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Seneschal was the senior steward in charge of all ceremonies and domestic arrangements as well as the administration of justice in a large medieval household. The word is Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin “seniscalus”, from a Germanic compound of words meaning \u2018old\u2019 and \u2018servant\u2019. The Seneschal Badge (above) is “Gules, a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montengarde.org\/Welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montengarde.org\/Welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montengarde.org\/Welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montengarde.org\/Welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montengarde.org\/Welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.montengarde.org\/Welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6210,"href":"https:\/\/www.montengarde.org\/Welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/6210"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montengarde.org\/Welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montengarde.org\/Welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}