In Poul Anderson's A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows, the head of state of the planet, Dennitza, is the Gospodar.
In Anderson's The Merman's Children, when the merman, Tauno, masquerading as the human Herr Carolus Brede, visits Dalmatia, he is there addressed as "Gospodar Carolus." (Book Four, VI, p. 223) We are surprised to recognize a title used in A Knight... repeated here. At least I am. (Two very different novels.)
"Carolus" is "Charles." Thus, King Charles III of England was referred to, during his coronation, as "Rex Carolus."
Thus, the phrase, "Gospodar Carolus," evokes considerably more than it is probably meant to but that is the nature of words and names.
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