dapifer

Noun

(plural dapifers)

The servant that brings the meat to the table at a meal.
The official title of the steward in a medieval English nobleman's household.
The most senior of the five great officers of state in the medieval French royal court.

Origin

From Late Latin dapifer, from Latin daps (“feast”) + ferō (“bear”).

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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.

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