ARHIVELE OLTENIEI - Universitatea din Craiova

Professions and functions with a special statute in the past 151picernic – the helper of the paharnic;pitar – the title given to the boyar who provided with bread the court(and the army) and who supervised the lord’s bakers;pitărel – a boyar of a lower rank than the pitar one;postelnic – a high official from the court who took care of the lord’s bedand room; he also had the duty of receiving the foreign delegates and leadingthem to the lord;postelnicel – a title given to a man-servant (civil or military) from thelord’s court, subordinated to the postelnic;rahtivan – an employee at the lord’s court who provided the necessarythings for the lord’s horses;referendar – a boyar charged with the lord’s correspondence;satâraş (satârgiu) – a soldier from the lord’s guard who served in thesuits; a mercenary soldier from the old guard, in the Romanian lands, armed witha cleaver;seiz – a person (subordinated to the comis) who took care of the lord’s orthe boyar’s horses;serdar – high official who leaded the army and especially the cavalry;the leader of the army who was a member of the Divan boyars;sluger – a great boyar who had to supply the lord’s court and the army;sofagiu – an employee at the lord’s court during the Phanariot epoch,who took care of the divans and sofas;sofragiu – an employee at the lord’s court or in the boyar’s house,during the Phanariot epoch, who took care of the table and of the table linen;soitar – the buffoon at the Phanariot’s court in the Romanian lands;spătar – a high official at the lord’s court who wore at the ceremoniesthe sword and the mace of the lord and, later, he commanded the cavalry;spătărel – a lower rank official who maintained the order in the villagesin time of peace and had military attributions during the war;stolnic – a high official who had in care the lord’s meal, being the chefof the cooks, of the fishermen and of the gardeners;stolnicel – high official, a subaltern of the stolnic, who collected the fishmetayage;şamdangiu – an employee who took care of the lord’s candles;şafar – a title accorded in Moldavia and Walachia to the boyar who wasthe head cook at the lord’s court;şătrar – high official who had in charge the lord’s tents, in the warcamp;şătrărel – a subaltern of the şătrar;şerbagiu – a lower boyar from the lord’s court who offered the sherbetto the lord and who took care of the sweets;vătaf – the leader of a field region, a chancellor (logofăt) who watchedthe lord’s or a wider estate’s servants;