The most senior of the five great officers of state in the medieval French royalcourt.
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Origin of dapifer
From Late Latin dapifer, from Latindaps (“feast”) + ferō (“bear”).
Sentence Examples
In the Sachsenspiegel, a collection of German laws which was written before 1235, the count is given as the butler (dapifer) of the emperor, the first place among the lay electors.
steward (dapifer) or seneschal of Scotland.
The founder of their greatness was Humphrey III., who in the latter years of Henry I., makes his appearance as a dapifer, or steward, in the royal household.