- 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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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...
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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...
- "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...
-
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...
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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...
- (often
called seneschals by historians) and
butlers (or cup-bearers) were
thegns who
acted as
personal attendants of
kings in Anglo-Saxon England. Royal...
- the king had
retained the
loyalty of ealdormen,
royal reeves and king's
thegns, who were
charged with
levying and
leading these forces, but that they had...
- and uses same-stave bind
runes to
commemorate a man
described as
being a
thegn. This
runestone was
initially noted during the
Swedish surveys of runestones...
- them.
These details are unclear, but
titles and
positions like hauldr,
thegn, and landmand, show
mobility between the
karls and the jarls.
Other social...
