In the ensuing centuries, authority on the island was to become concentrated amongst a small number of local barons.

Fenechiu has been referred to as a "local baron", and wields some influence within his party.

Guy in Oregon got paid to spot fires for the local baron.

After the duke's safely tucked away in that monastery, talk with some of the local barons.

He was an important "local baron" of the Socialist Party.

Frequently the companions are captured or forced into a confrontation with the local barons.

During his stay in Japan, he becomes obsessed with the concubine of a local baron.

He was born the illegitimate son of the local baron and his barmaid mother.

Despite being the local baron or whatever, he was painfully aware that the Keldara women were off-limits.

And by the time he was big enough to worry the local baron, he'd absorbed the forces of several knights.