castellan

1. (obsolete) A feudal lord with a fortified manor.obsolete

2. (chiefly historical) The governor or caretaker entrusted to oversee a castle or keep for its lord.Examples: "The inferior secular senators are ninety-two, containing the ten crown-officers, and eighty-two castellans. The latter are again divided into thirty-three great castellans, and forty-nine little castellans."; "Castellans, often exercising control over a few villages and half a dozen small lordships, transformed their banal lordships into quasi-sovereign mini-states, independent of royal or comital sanction or control."; "The wave of attacks on the castellans in 1511 followed faction-fighting in Udine, in which castellans and their families were massacred by supporters of the Savorgnan."historical