The rentamts, or stewardships, would be governed by a Rentmeister (Steward). He would be responsible for the collection of taxes and the general management of his jurisdiction. Justice is already headed by the court system. His military counterpart would be the Hauptmann (Headman, or Captain.) He would be entrusted with overseeing the standards of the militias and levies in times of peace and the mustering of the troops within his general area during times of war. Most of the first office bearers would be men from within the area. To ascertain that these new offices wouldn't become hereditary, you promulgated a statute detailing the limitations of these offices.

In the case of the frontier stewardships, you would pull out an old term from the Tauten times; a march or Mark is the traditional borderland designation Tautenland used, and you would bring it back as well. In ordinary amter, the Rentmeister would be a senior official; here you would turn it around, and you wouldn't include or make any Margraves, not here. Instead, you would make the Markhauptmann the more important of the two, with a permanent force to patrol and ward the borders like how the rangers do in the forests.

Those being that you couldn't hold more than one, it was explicitly non-hereditary, it was to be given via a letter of appointment, and it came up for renewal every ten years. Though, the king and his council could decide to vacate the office in case the holder performed poorly or acted corruptly.

The nobility, as per usual, were not too thrilled to see another layer of royal oversight to be introduced, but there was little they could do to oppose your decision. You were not high-handed in your dealings with them, nor had you tried to pry away their jealously guarded privileges. And what they couldn't do in the open, they would do in private, away from court, in the shadows and comfort of their own.

You were beginning to distrust them, and you thought they were of the same opinion as you. Perhaps you should try to spy on them; they might have done the same to you. Intrigue was something you were familiar with; you had navigated the court of daggers that had become the crusader faction in Mithras before, but you had never put your hand to building a network of informants before, and with the office of Hofspitzel (Court Spymaster) still vacant, you weren't certain.