What court officials, civil servants and administrators should one expect in a setting inspired by the late medieval period / renaissance?
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What court officials, civil servants and administrators should one expect in a setting inspired by the late medieval period?
All of them except regular police forces (a duty devolved to soldiers, mercenaries, gangs, and lynch mobs) and a regular fire department (multiple firefighting gangs compete, will only fight a fire if paid first, and sometimes are accused of starting fires). Waste collection is also a private venture, but fortunately shit and urine have their uses.
Evil scheming Chancellor
>Evil Scheming Chancellor is an official position
>Local lord's autistic son applies despite not actually being evil and just being socially awkward.
Tax collectors are not professional appointed positions, but instead positions that are lobbied for. Tax collectors lobby for the position, and in turn it's expected that they'll re-pay themselves through taxing more than they're rightfully owed.
Sounds like someone you should kill and feed to the village hogs.
That's why tax collectors employ a squad or two of veterans.
Usually israelites were the ones holding the position.
Yes, they have been historically misunderstood and hated for absolutely no reason.
That's why you hire someone a little...different to do the job.
The thing I always liked about Flagg was his willingness to do 'blue collar' evil. Sure, he's a dab hand as a traitorous court wizard and right hand advisor, but he's just enthusiastic being the royal headsman or a traveling tax collector, or a cult leader to loser hippie terrorists.
>counselor
>ambassador
>court official
>emissary
>agent/spy
>minstrel
>scholar
>judge
>noble/noble warrior
>torturer/jailor(gaoler)
Court dwarf.
It's a bit later, being from the cusp between the 17th and 18th centuries, but the polysynodial system of the French regency is pretty straightforward and easy to copy paste into your setting.
At the death of Louis XIV, the regent Philippe d'Orléans, in search of political support, satisfied the aristocracy by replacing the ministers and secretaries of state with eight councils (declarations of September 15 and December 14, 1715) which were dominated by the ancient aristocracy (descending from medieval knights, as opposed to the newer aristocracy of recently ennobled lawyers and civil servants). The Council of the Regency, chaired by the regent, had no real power. The other councils shared government power. They were the Council of Matters within the Kingdom (Conseil des affaires du dedans du royaume), the Council of Conscience (Conseil de conscience) for religious matters, the Council of War (Conseil de guerre), the Council of the Navy (Conseil de marine), the Council of Finance (Conseil de finance), the Council of Foreign Affairs (Conseil des affaires étrangères), and the Council of Commerce (Conseil de commerce) for internal and foreign trade as well as for royal factories (manufactures). Each council had ten members and elected one president.
Although the regent Philippe d'Orléans was cautious enough to admit all the ministers of the last government of Louis XIV, as well as many of the high officers and civil servants of Louis XIV, to sit in the councils alongside the aristocrats, this system of government worked poorly due to the absenteeism and ineptitude of the aristocrats, as well as to conflicts of personalities.
Half of the councillors come from traditional noble houses and half from wealthy burghers that have bought or married into noble titles. The latter are more numerous in the more technical councils (commerce, finance) while the former dominate in the Regency Council or the War Council and are alone in the Foreign Affairs Council.
Relatives from other kingdoms/Duchies/Territories/whatever who serve as translators and diplomats in a way. England and Portugal's alliance was so strong mainly because they intermarried early and sent many family members to live with their allies over the centuries.
Minter (Coin stamping)
Bailiff (Manage the peasants in rural areas and ensure burghers in towns follow local trade practices and zoning)
parish priests, Deacons, and monks in rural towns and low income areas of towns
Bishops In royal court or bourgeoise controlled parts of the city
Game Wardens in rural areas or royal woods
Guilds to regulate local trades (also have their own administrators like treasurers)
Harbourmaster/Wharfmaster (ensure inbound/outbound ships are following local import/export laws and tariffs)
Rat catcher/Street orderlies (Catch Pests/Clean Streets)
These are just a few day to day civil servants i could think of.
Looks like you posted your pic at the exact same instant some coomer else did theirs.
Copying from the crusader kings council and court positions is an easy route. Keeper of the Swans, Master of the Horse, Seneschal, that kinda thing. The game/wiki has succinct descriptions of them as well
Man, they really dropped the ball with CK3
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_Jew
I don't know why you felt the need to post the wikipedia link, but you forgot
>Court Moor
>Court Dwarf
Dwarfs were more like pets than officials. I'm not sure what purpose having a dirka around would be. We're talking a period of very frequent wars with Turks and Mohammedian pirates ranging as far as the UK in their slave raids.
I now see why he posted the wikipedia link. Apparently people will try to reason against a fact before looking it up themselves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kammermohr
Helps if you use the actual term. So another "pet," like dwarfs? I guess that makes sense.
This is absolutely recorded history, but what they're leaving out is that it was a custom adopted after contact with the Ottoman Empire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizlar_agha
Never forget your castellan. They're invested with incredible power and have almost no oversight for the vast majority of their time.