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castellan

governor or captain of a castle
Class type of: military position, land agent Q1505781

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
position, title, profession[2][3]
Subclass of
military position, land agent[4][5]
Described by source
Nordisk familjebok, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10][11][12]
Female form of label
Kastellanin, каштелянка, kastelanka, kaštelionė, kasztelanka, кастелянка, casteleira, kastelánka[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
Male form of label
Kastellan, kastelan, kaštelionas, кастелян, kasztelan, casteleiro[21][22][23]
Said to be the same as
alcaide, châtelain, governor, burgrave[6][7][8][9]
🏷️ Also known as
en Warden en castellan ar حاكم القلعة cs kastelán cs kastelánka da kastellan da slotshøvedsmand da slotskommandant da borggreve da borgfoged de Kastlanin de Kastellanin de Kastlan el καστελάνος es castellán es castellano fa حاکم قلعه fi kastellaani fi linnaherra fi linnanherra
🔖 Identifiers · 17
GND ID
4747793-3
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12050220n, 156207080
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
kastellan
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.1
Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID
96490
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/castellan-feudal-official
FactGrid item ID
Tagwana
Freebase ID
/m/03b0bd
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11ghrc1br6
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
castla
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0089224
HDS ID
010354
Show all 17 identifiers +5
Lex ID
kastellan
NE.se ID
kastellan
NL CR AUT ID
ph1035271, ph1034230
SVKKL authority ID
0408411-kastelanky, 0408410-kastelani
Topic's main category
Category:Castellans

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🔗 Connections
Holders of this position 9
Ramsay Bolton, Gerald de Windsor, John IV, Count of Nassau-Siegen, Luca Arbore, Bernal de Foix, 1st Count of Medinaceli, Gregor Clegane, Koja Zaharia, Hernando de Alarcón +1 more
← Occupation 7
Stanisław Koniecpolski, Jan Bouman, Janusz Antoni Wiśniowiecki, Konstanty Ludwik Plater, Sebastian Lubomirski, Jan Kostka, Jan Sosnowski
Instance of 3
profession, title, position
Subtypes 3
burgrave, castellan, alcaide
← Said to be the same as 3
governor, burgrave, alcaide
Described by source 2
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Nordisk familjebok
Said to be the same as 2
governor, alcaide
FactGrid item ID 1
Tagwana
Subclass of 1
military position
Topic's main category 1
Category:Castellans
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Castellans
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Summary

castellan is a position[1].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Castellans
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Topic's main category: Category:Castellans, дублирующееся значение / duplicate value"
  2. 5w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 30
    Wikipedia languages → ['an', 'ar', 'bg', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fr', '
    Topic's main category → Category:Castellans
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Topic's main category: Category:Castellans, разрешение перенаправления / resolving redirect Wikidata item → Category:Castellans ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/KrBotResolvingRedirec"
  3. 15w ago · Scholastikos · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → military position, land agent
    Described by source → Nordisk familjebok, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
    Google Knowledge Graph ID → /g/11ghrc1br6
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbmergeitems-from:0||Q54086385 */ the same"
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