Definition of Thanage. Meaning of Thanage. Synonyms of Thanage

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Definition of Thanage

Thanage
Thanage Than"age, n. The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom.

Meaning of Thanage from wikipedia

- A thanage was an area of land held by a thegn in Anglo-Saxon England. Thanage can also denote the rank held by such a thegn. In medieval Scotland David...
- head of an administrative and socio-economic unit known as a thanedom or thanage. [T]he "thane", though he later developed into a laird, was at first an...
- society, below the king and ealdormen. He had to be a substantial landowner. Thanage refers to the tenure by which lands were held by a thane as well as the...
- of Lady Worsley". Harewood House. 14 August 2015 Temple, William, The Thanage of Fermartyn, including the district commonly called Formartine, its proprietors...
- valued the thanage in 1266 at £96 13s 4d, though by the time of the Alexander III rental this had increased to £106 13s 4d. The thanage's origins probably...
- British History Online. Retrieved 2018-01-26. Temple, William (1894). The Thanage of Fermartyn, including the district commonly called Formartine, its proprietors...
- nobles, or some combination of these. Likewise, the Pictish shires and thanages, traces of which are found in later times, are thought to have been adopted...
- but no trace of it remains.[citation needed] Temple, William (1894). The Thanage of Fermartyn, including the district commonly called Formartine, its proprietors...
- feudal barony and thanage, 965 metres south west of Pennan in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Hugh, Earl of Ross was granted the barony and thanage of Glendowachy...
- Clatt in the hilly country to the west of Oyne. It was probably a shire or thanage, and may originally either have formed part of the province of Buchan,...