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Definition of Thanages

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

Meaning of Thanages 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...
- - IGN, retrieved 1 December 2020 Grant, Alexander (1993). "Thanes and Thanages, from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Centuries". In Grant, Alexander; Stringer...
- likely of Celtic origin. The family's earliest recorded possessions, the thanages of Glamis, Glamis, Tannadyce and Belhelvies, were in a Celtic stronghold...
- 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...
- 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...
- Library, retrieved 22 October 2011. Grant, Alexander (1993). Thanes and Thanages, from the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries. in Grant & Stringer (1993)...
- Barrow, Acts of Malcolm IV, p. 266; Grant, "Thanes and Thanages", p. 46. Grant, "Thanes and Thanages", p. 54. Duncan, Kingship, p. 83; Duncan, Making, pp...
- (following the Fire of Frendraught in 1630). Temple, William (1894). The Thanage of Fermartyn, including the district commonly called Formartine, its proprietors...
- Complete Peerage, 2nd edition, Volume I, Page 140 'Earl of Angus' Thanes & Thanages Annals of Tigernach Annals of Ulster Chronicon Scotorum Gaelic Notes on...
- was largely confined to eastern Scotland north of the forth. Seventy-one thanages are on record from the Middle Ages, sixty-nine of which are in the eastern...