- for a
thegn.
Thegns were
divided into
three ranks:
ealdormen (later earl), king's
thegns, and
median thegns.
Below ealdormen were king's
thegns, so called...
- (often
called seneschals by historians) and
butlers (or cup-bearers) were
thegns who
acted as
personal attendants of
kings in Anglo-Saxon England. Royal...
- 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...
- 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...
- the 11th century. It
comprised important noblemen,
including ealdormen,
thegns, and bishops.
Meetings of the
witan were
sometimes called the witenagemot...
-
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...
- 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...
- "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...
-
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...
-
bolstering Harthacnut's
succession using her
links with the East
Anglian thegns in Cnut the Great's court. A
return of
stallers such as Tovi the
Proud and...
