-
Children inherited thegnly status from
their father, and a
thegnly woman who
married a
ceorl retained her
noble status. A
successful thegn might hope to be...
- "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...
- dishes".
Thegns usually attested charters as ML minister. The rail-
thegn (OE hræglðegn) or chamber-
thegn (OE burðegn), was
another thegnly office at...
-
shillings for a
ceorl and 1,200s for a
thegn.
Children inherited thegnly status from
their father, and a
thegnly woman who
married a
ceorl retained her...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Wulfnoth Cild ([wuɫf.noːθ t͡ʃiɫd]; died c. June 1014) was a
South Saxon thegn who is
regarded by
historians as the
probable father of Godwin, Earl of...
- were king's
thegns, so
called because they only
served the king. The
lowest thegnly rank were the
median thegns who owed
service to
other thegns. High-ranking...
- 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...
