sénéchaussée

Etymology
From earlier, from +.

Noun

 * 1) a seneschalty: a district governed by a seneschal, particularly:
 * 2)  the seneschalties of southern France and Normandy during the late medieval and early modern periods.
 * 3)  the capital of a seneschalty; the seat of a seneschal
 * 4)  the royal court headed by a seneschal