• Royals

  • King - A king rules a large area of land/country by divine right. To protect his land from invasion he gives parts of it to local lords.
  • Queen - A female sovereign or monarch. A wife or consort of a king. 
  • Prince - A non-reigning male member of the royal family. 
  • Princess - A non-reigning female member of a royal family. 
  • Queen Mother - A queen dowager who is mother of a reigning sovereign.

• Clergy

  • Pope - The pope is head of a catholic church. 
  • Bishop - Bishops are leaders of the church serving under the pope. Most Bishops were noble men. They watched over the priests, monks, nuns and administered its business. 
  • Arch Deacon - A ecclasiastic, ranking next below a bishop and having charge of the temporal and external administration of a diocese, with jurisdicition delegated from the bishop. 
  • Abbot - A man who is the head or superior, usually elected, of a monastery. 
  • Prior - An officer in a monastic order or religious house, sometimes next in rank below an abbot. 
  • Dean - The head of a chapter of the cathedral or a collegiate church. A priest in the roman catholic church appointented by a bishop to take care of the affairs of a division of a diocese. 
  • Priest - Priests provided spiritual instruction and conducted religious ceremonies in local, or parish, churches. 
  • Monk/Nun - Monks and nuns were men and women who gave up their possessions and left ordinary life to live in monasteries and covenants. They lived very simply and could not marry and devoted themselves to prayer, study, and helping the poor. They also served as doctors. 
  • Friar - Friars were travelling preachers who lived by begging and spreads of teachings of St. Francis of Assisi. A member of mendicant order, whose members are not attached to a monastary and own no community property. 
  • Cleric - A member of the clergy. (The body of all people ordained for religious duties, especially in the christian church.) 
  • Vicar - Clergymen paid to act in the true parish priest's stead. A vicar was often verry corrupt. 
  • Barbar-Surgeon - A monastic who shaved faces/heads and preformed light surgery. 
  • Chaplain - An ecclasiatic attached to the chapel of a royal court, college, etc., or a military unit. A person who says the prayer, invocation, etc., for an organization or at an assembly. 
  • Confessor - A priest authorized to hear confessions. 
  • Scribe - A person who copied books by hand. 
  • Culdees  - Meaning "servant of God." they were Irish/Scottish preservers of old Gaelic customs. 

• Nobility

  • Viceroy & Vicerein - The govenor of a country or province, who rules as a representive of a king or a sovereign. 
  • Duke & Duchess - A nobleman of the highest hereditary rank. A member of nobility; historically the highest rank below the reigning monarch. 
  • Marquess & Marchioness - A member of the British peerage ranking below a Duke. Lords responsible for guarding border areas, known as 'marches'. In some cases the eldest born son of a Duke was known as a Marquess. 
  • Count & Countess - A European nobleman whose rank corresponds or is equivalant to that of a British Earl. 
  • Baron & Baroness - One of a class of tenants holding his rights and title by military or other honorable service directly from a feudal superior. A vassal who who served as a member of the King's great council. 
  • Knight & Dame - Knights were warriors who fought on horseback. In return for land, they pledged themselves as vassals to the king. 

• Tradesmen/Merchants

  • ​​​​​​​Moneyer  - A person liscenced by the crown to strike coins. He received the dies from the crown and was allowed to keep 1/240 of the money he coined for himself. 
  • Thane - Originally meaning military companion to the king. A thane was a man holding administrative office. 
  • Sherriff - The chief administrative and judicial officer of a shire. He collected taxes and forwarded them on to the Exchequer, and was also responsible for making sure that the King's table was well stocked. 
  • Apprentice - A boy studying a trade from a skilled master. Apprenticeship was a sort of bonded servitude in which a young boy is given to a master of a trade. The master is usually skilled at its job. The boy then learns the trade from the master and in return he does the masters grunt work. An apprenticeship lasts for seven years, and then they become a journeyman.
  • Journeyman - A person who has served an apprenticeship for seven years at a trade or a handicraft and is certified to work at it assisting or under another person. A journeyman worked for a daily wage, and they can become a master if they pay the right fees. 
  • Master Craftman - A person who practices or is highly skilled in a craft; artisan. 
  • Artillator - Maker of bows, arrows and other archery goods. 
  • Bowyer - Maker of bows. 
  • Fletcher - Maker of arrows. 
  • Merchant - Merchants set up business in towns that begin to grow. Most commonly sold items are salt, iron and textiles. 
  • Peddler - Traveling merchants who sold their goods from town to town. 

• Castle Workers

  • ​​​​​​​Court Officials - Court officials derived their positions and retained their titles from their original duties within the courtly household. 
  • Chamberlein - An officer of the royal household responsible for the Chamber, meaning that he controlled access to the person of the king. He was also responsible for the administration of the household and the private estates of the king. 
  • Chancellor - The officer of the royal household who served as the monarch's secretary or notary. The Chancellor was responsible for the Chancery, the arm of the royal government dealing with domestic and foreign affairs. Usually the person chosen for this position was a bishop chosen for his knowledge of the law. 
  • Justiciar - The head of the royal judicial system and the king's viceroy, when the actual viceroy was absent from the country. 
  • Treasurer - The chief financial officer of the realm and senior officer of the Exchequer. 
  • Constable - An officer of high rank in medieval monarchies, usually the commander of all armed forces, especially in the abscence of a ruler. The keeper of a governer fortress or castle. 
  • Master of the Horse - The third official of the royal household. The Master of the Horse is the third dignitry of the court, and was always a member of the ministry, a peer and privy councilor. All matters connected with the horses and hounds of the sovereign as well as the stables and coach houses, the stud, mews and kennels were within his jurisdiction. 
  • Almoner - A person whose function or duty is the distibution of alms on behalf of an instituion, a royal personage, a monastary, etc. 
  • Butler - The chief male servant of the household, usually in charge of serving food, the care of silverware, etc. The male servant having charge of wines and liquors. 
  • Cofferer - One who keeps treasurs in a coffer. A coffer is a box or chest, especially one for valuables. 
  • Cup-bearer - A servant who fills and serves wine cups, as in a royal palace or an elaborate banquet. 
  • Dapifer - One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the offical title of the grand master or steward of the king's noblemen or household. 
  • Doorward - Holds the responsibility of being warden of the king's door. i.e protecting the kings property. 
  • Falconer - A person who hunts with falcons or follows the sport of hawking. A person who trains hawks for hunting. 
  • Guard - A person who protects the royal family in the walls of the castle and will follow them outside of the castle for protection. 
  • Gentleman of the Bedchamber - A gentleman of the bedchamber was the holder of an important office in the royal household. The duties of the office involved waiting on the king when he ate in private, helping him to dress, guarding the bedchamber and closet, and providing companionship. 
  • Gentleman Usher -  The gentleman ushers occupied a level intermediate between the steward, the usual head and the ordinary servants. They were responsible for overseeing the work of the servants, particularly those who cooked and waited upon the noblemen at meals, and saw to it the great chamber was kept clean by the lesser servants. 
  • Grandmaster - The head of a military order of knighthood A person of the highest level of ability or acheivement in any field. 
  • Grand Master of the Hunt - Responsible for organizing hunts and guarding royal forests from poachers. 
  • Groom of the stool - The Groom of the Stool was the most intimate of monarch couriers whose physical intimacy lead him to being a man in whom much confidence was placed by his royal master, and whom many royal secrets were shared as a matter of course. 
  • Herald - A royal officer messanger. Heralds arrange tournaments and other functions, announced challenges, marshalad combatants. They are also employed to arrange processions, funerals, etc. and to regulate the use of armonial bearings. 
  • Pursuivant - A heraldic officer of the lowest class, ranking below a Herald. An official attendant on heralds. 
  • Intendant of the civil list - The intendant of the kings civil list is responsible for managing the material, financial and human rescources of the King's Household. He is assisted by the Commandant of the Royal Palaces, the Treasurer of the King's Civil List, and Civil List Advisor. The Intendant of the Civil List also advises the King in the field of energy, sciences and culture and administers the King's hunting rights. 
  • Jester - A professional fool or clown at medieval court. 
  • Keeper of the Seal  - This person is to keep and authorize use of the Great Seal of a given country. 
  • King of arms - A title certain of the principle heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings. 
  • Lady-in-waiting - A lady who is in attendance upon a queen or a princess. 
  • Maid of Honor - An unmarried lady attending a queen or a princess. 
  • Majordomo - A man in charge of a great household, as that of a sovereign; a chief steward. 
  • Page - A boy servant or attendant (as young as age 7) given to a knight to be trained for knighthood. Generally the son of nobility. 
  • Pantler - The servant or officer, in a great family, who has charge of the bread and the pantry. 
  • Seneschal - An officer having full charge of domestic arrangements, ceremonies, the administration of justice, etc. in the houshold of a prince or dignitary; steward. 
  • Squire - At 13 to 14 pages become squires and began to practice fighting on horseback. Squires serve as assistants to knights both in the castle and on the battlefield. At 21 a squire can become a knight. 
  • Standard Bearer - An officer or soldier of an army or military unit who bears a standard. A standard-bearer is a person who bears an emblem called an insign or standard. i.e either a type of flag or an inflexible but mobile image which is used as a formal, visual symbol of a state, prince, military unit, etc. 
  • Steward - The man responsible for running the day-to-day affairs of the castle when the lord was absent. The steward organized farm work and kept accounts of the estates money. Stewards were well-payed, powerful figures in the district. 

• Entertainers

  • ​​​​​​​Minstrel - A medieval poet who sang or recited while accompyning himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an intinerint troubador. 
  • Troubador - Composers of epic poems and love songs often sung by wandering minstrels.
  • Jongleur - French wandering Minstrels usually from the lowerclass who entertained with tales of epic battles and heroes. 
  • Bard - A minstrel or a poet who glorified the virute of his people and cheiftains. 
  • Gleeman - Saxon composer of songs
  • Mummers - Actors who re-enacted religious plays. Also used to refer to a masked or costumed merry maker or dancer especially at a festival. 
  • Thespians - An actor. 
  • Mage - A magician

• Military

  • ​​​​​​​Landsknecht - A member of the infantry. They were trained in the use of famous long pikes and used the pike square formation developed by the swiss. The majority of landsknect would use pikes, but others, meant to provide tactical assistance to the pike-men, accordingly used different weapons. 
  • Crossbow-men - A soldier of the infantry who wielded crossbows. 
  • Longbow-men - A soldier of the infantry who wielded longbows. 
  • Lancers - A member of the calvary. A lancer was a type of calvary man who fought with a lance. 
  • Dragoons - A member of the calvary. The word dragoon originally meant mounted infantry, who were trained in horse fighting as well as infantry fighting skills. 
  • Calvary Archers - A member of the calvary. A horsed archer is a calvaryman armed with a bow able to shoot from horseback. 
  • Constable - An officer who commanded an army or an important garrison, or an officer who commanded in the kings absence. 
  • Vintenar - A man in charge of 20 soldiers
  • Man-at-arms - A soldier holding his land, generally 60 to 120 acres in exchange for military service. A man-at-arms was usually a landholder but could also be a retainer, guard, attendant or a subordinate official. 
  • Foot Soldier - A member of the calvary. A person who serves in the army. A person of military skill or experience who serves and fights for pay. A person who contends or serves in any cause; a soldier of the lord. 
  • Sergeant - A servant who accompinied his lord to battle, a horseman of a lower status used as a light calvary or a type of tenure in service of a non-knightly character who might have carried the lords banner, served in the wine cellar or made bows and arrows. Sergeants paid the federal dues of wardship, marriage relief but are exempt from scutage. 

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