seigneur

lääninherra puhekieltä A feudal lord; a noble.
2002, (w), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 156:

There was less and less love lost between peasants and seigneurs. The services which the latter had provided for the peasant community in the past had diminished in value.

Beaumont lives on Sark, a small, autonomous island twenty-five miles off the coast of Normandy, with her husband, Michael, the island's seigneur.