''Stolnic'' was a ''
boier'' (Romanian nobility) rank and the position at the
court
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in the
Danubian Principalities
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of
Moldavia
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and
Wallachia
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. The title approximately corresponds to
seneschal
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and is borrowed from the Slavic title ''
stolnik
Pantler (, , russian: сто́льник, ) was a court office in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia, responsible for serving the royal table, then an honorary court title and a district office.
Stolnik in Crown of Poland
In the Crown of Poland un ...
'' (from the word ''stol'', "table") a person in charge of the royal table.
The title ''mare stolnic'' means "great stolnic", or "Chief Seneschal".
The first documented usages of the title date to 1392 in Wallachia and 1393 in Moldavia.
Notable ''stolnics''
*
Constantin Cantacuzino (cca. 1650–1716), ''stolnic'', diplomat, historian and geographer.
See also
* ''
stolnik
Pantler (, , russian: сто́льник, ) was a court office in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia, responsible for serving the royal table, then an honorary court title and a district office.
Stolnik in Crown of Poland
In the Crown of Poland un ...
'', a noble rank in
Poland
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, the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
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and
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*Muscovy duck (''Cairina moschata'') and Domest ...
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