- In
later Anglo-Saxon England, a
thegn or
thane (Latin minister) was an
aristocrat who
ranked at the
third level in lay society,
below the king and ealdormen...
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Fleming af
Liebelitz (1681)
Fabian Wrede af Elimä (1681-1685) Olof
Arvidsson Thegner (1685-1689)
Jakob Gyllenborg (1689-1695)
Johan Hoghusen (1695-1714) "Uppland"...
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Thane of
Cawdor is a
title in the
Scottish nobility,
allotted to the thane, or lord, of the
village of Cawdor. The
current 7th Earl Cawdor, of Clan Campbell...
- "a
common person". Says Chadwick: we find that the
distinction between thegn and
ceorl is from the time of
Aethelstan the
broad line of
demarcation between...
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major beneficiary,
along with
Burton Abbey and Ælfhelm.
Morcar was a king's
thegn (Latin minister) in 1009 when King Æthelred the
Unready issued a charter...
-
described thegns as "the
country gentry of Anglo-Saxon England".
Thegns were
divided into
three ranks: ealdormen, king's
thegns, and
median thegns. The ealdorman...
- (often
called seneschals by historians) and
butlers (or cup-bearers) were
thegns who
acted as
personal attendants of
kings in Anglo-Saxon England. Royal...
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brother Harold Godwinson marched up from the south. On 3
October 1065, the
thegns of York and the rest of
Yorkshire descended on York and
occupied the city...
- and Herefordshire. John of
Worcester names Eadric's
father as Æthelric, a
thegn who
attended court from the late 980s onwards, and his
siblings as Brihtric...
- south-west,
though here a
famous battle was
fought between the
invaders and the
thegns of Devon.
Stenton notes that,
though this
series of
isolated raids had no...
