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Definition of Thegns

Thegn
Thegn Thegn, n. Thane. See Thane. --E. A. Freeman.

Meaning of Thegns from wikipedia

- 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...
- 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 11th century. It comprised important noblemen, including ealdormen, thegns, and bishops. Meetings of the witan were sometimes called the witenagemot...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...