Qaid

A Kaid or Caid, Arabic القائد / al - Qa'id, is a title, which was awarded in the Norman Kingdom of Sicily. He was at the palace officials and members of the curia, usually to Muslims or converts from Islam, often eunuchs awarded. The Romanization was Gaitus or Gaytus.

In the Arab Maghreb origin in the space meant Kaid masters or leaders, either local representative of the central state power ( Makhzen ) or regional leader of an independent tribe. The latter was one of Caid Moha ou Hammou, a Berber leader who defied in the area of Khénifra in Morocco in the early 20th century, the French colonial army. About the same time belonged to the Sultan of power General Sir Harry Aubrey de Maclean (1848-1920), a Scottish military advisers of Abd al - Aziz, who bore the title Kaid.

Kaid at the court of Palermo were:

  • Kaid Thomas Brun, an Englishman who served Roger II;
  • Kaid Peter, a eunuch converted from Islam, confidant of Margaret of Navarre;
  • Kaid Richard Chamberlain of Margaret of Navarre.
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