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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...
- 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...
- Thane of Cawdor is a title in the Scottish nobility. The current 7th Earl Cawdor, of Clan Campbell of Cawdor, is the 25th Thane of Cawdor. In William Shakespeare's...
- 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...
- (often called seneschals by historians) and butlers (or cup-bearers) were thegns who acted as personal attendants of kings in Anglo-Saxon England. Royal...
- 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...
- The Tragedy of Macbeth, often shortened to Macbeth (/məkˈbɛθ/), is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606...
- in Sweden (U 990) from the eleventh century: Veðr Weðr Weðr ok ok ok Þegn Þegn Þegn ok ok ok Gunnarr Gunnarr Gunnarr reistu ræistu raistu stein stæin stain...
- 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...
- gesiþas ('companions') or þegnas ('thegns'), the latter coming to predominate. After the Norman Conquest the title 'thegn' was equated to the Norman 'baron'...