In alphabetical order;
Almoners: ensured the poor received alms.
Atilliator: skilled castle worker who made
crossbows.
Baliff: in charge of allotting jobs to the peasants,
building repair, and repair of tools used by the
peasants.
Barber: someone who cut hair. Also served as
dentists, surgeons and blood-letters.
Blacksmith: forged and sharpened tools and
weapons, beat out dents in armor, made hinges
for doors, and window grills. Also referred to as
Smiths.
Bottler: in charge of the buttery or bottlery.
Butler: cared for the cellar and was in charge of
large butts and little butts (bottles) of wine and
beer. Under him a staff of people might consist
of brewers, tapsters, cellarers, dispensers,
cupbearers and dapifer.
Carder: someone who brushed cloth during its
manufacture.
Carpenter: built flooring, roofing, siege engines,
furniture, panelling for rooms, and scaffoling for
building.
Carters: workmen who brought wood and stone
to the site of a castle under construction.
Castellan: resident owner or person in charge of
a castle (custodian).
Chamberlain: responsible for the great chamber
and for the personal finances of the castellan.
Chaplain: provided spirtual welfare for laborers
and the castle garrison. The duties might also
include supervising building operations, clerk,
and keeping accounts. He also tended to the
chapel.
Clerk: a person who checked material costs,
wages, and kept accounts.
Constable: a person who took care (the governor
or warden) of a castle in the absence of the
owner. This was sometimes bestowed upon a
great baron as an honor and some royal castles
had hereditary constables.
Cook: roasted, broiled, and baked food in the
fireplaces and ovens.
Cottars: the lowest of the peasantry. Worked as
swine-herds, prison guards, and did odd jobs.
Ditcher: worker who dug moats, vaults,
foundations and mines.
Dyer: someone who dyed cloth in huge heated
vats during its manufacture.
Ewerer: worker who brought and heated water
for the nobles.
Falconer: highly skilled expert responsible for
the care and training of hawks for the sport of
falconry.
Fuller: worker who shrinks & thickens cloth
fibers through wetting & beating the material.
Glaziers: a person who cut and shaped glass.
Gong Farmer: a latrine pit emptier.
Hayward: someone who tended the hedges.
Herald: knights assistant and an expert advisor
on heraldry.
Keeper of the Wardrobe: in charge of the tailors and laundress
Knight: a professional soldier. This was achieved
only after long and arduous training which began
in infancy.
Laird: minor baron or small landlord.
Marshal: officer in charge of a household's
horses, carts, wagons, and containers. His staff
included farriers, grooms, carters, smiths and
clerks. He also oversaw the transporting of
goods.
Master Mason: responsible for the designing
and overseeing the building of a structure.
Messengers: servants of the lord who carried
receipts, letters, and commodities.
Miner: skilled professional who dug tunnels for
the purpose of undermining a castle.
Minstrels: part of of the castle staff who
provided entertainment in the form of singing
and playing musical instruments.
Porter: took care of the doors (janitor),
particularly the main entrance. Responsible for
the guardrooms. The person also insured that
no one entered or left the castle without
permission. Also known as the door-ward.
Reeve: supervised the work on lord's property.
He checked that everyone began and stopped
work on time, and insured nothing was stolen.
Senior officer of a borough.
Sapper: an unskilled person who dug a mine or
approach tunnel.
Scullions: responsible for washing and cleaning
in the kitchen.
Shearmen: a person who trimmed the cloth
during its manufacture.
Shoemaker: a craftsman who made shoes.
Known also as Cordwainers.
Spinster: a name given to a woman who earned
her living spinning yarn. Later this was
expanded and any unmarried woman was called
a spinster.
Steward: took care of the estate and domestic
administration. Supervised the household and
events in the great hall. Also referred to as a
Seneschal.
Squire: attained at the age of 14 while training as
a knight. He would be assigned to a knight to
carry and care for the weapons and horse.
Watchmen: an official at the castle responsible
for security. Assited by lookouts (the garrison).
Weaver: someone who cleaned and compacted
cloth, in association with the Walker and Fuller.
Woodworkers: tradesmen called Board-hewers
who worked in the forest, producing joists and beams.
