Steward (office)
OFFICIAL WHO IS APPOINTED BY THE LEGAL RULING MONARCH TO REPRESENT THEM IN A COUNTRY
Dapifer; Steward (household); Erbtruchsess
A steward is an official who is appointed by the legal ruling monarch to represent them in a country and who may have a mandate to govern it in their name; in the latter case, it is synonymous with the position of regent, vicegerent, viceroy (for Romance languages), governor, or deputy (the Roman rector, praefectus, or vicarius).