What is smaller than a chateau?
What is smaller than a chateau? The manoir, which can be directly translated as the English 'manor', was originally occupied by a man of rank – a lord, for example – but it was built on a more intimate scale than the other main aristocratic home, the château.
What do you call the owner of a ch?teau?
During the 19th and 20th centuries, ch?telain was used to describe the owner of a castle or manor house, in many cases a figure of authority in his parish, akin to the English squire.