- A
toísech or
toísech clainne was the head of a
local kin-group in
medieval Scotland. The word,
meaning "first" or "leader" in
Scottish Gaelic, is first...
- ruler,
theoretically second only to the King of Scots, and the
senior of a
Toísech (chieftain).
Mormaers were
equivalent to
English earls or
Continental counts...
-
Early Irish law, also
called Brehon law (from the old
Irish word
breithim meaning judge),
comprised the
statutes which governed everyday life in Early...
- Laws of
Brets and Scots,
lists five
grades of man: King, mormaer/earl,
toísech/thane, ócthigern and serf.[1] For pre-twelfth
century Scotland, slaves...
-
longer ****umed to be
kings but
became referred to as
tigern (a lord) or
toísech (a leader) instead. This
pyramid structure, however, by the
later medieval...
-
headed by a man
whose office was
known in Old
Irish as a cenn fine or
toísech (plural: toísig).
Nicholls suggests that they
would be
better thought of...
-
surname occupied the
office of
toísech of
Clann Aílebra in the late
twelfth century. In 1172, for example, the
toísech was
slain by Donn Slébe Ua hEochada...
- rulers. From the 10th
century the
Kingdom of Alba was
ruled by
chiefs (
toisechs) and
subkings (mormaers)
under the suzerainty, real or nominal, of a High...
- period, the
kings of the
Scots depended on the
great lords—the
mormaers and
toísechs—but from the
reign of
David I,
sheriffdoms were introduced,
which allowed...
- the
Scots depended on the
great lords of the
mormaers (later earls) and
Toísechs (later thanes), but from the
reign of
David I
sheriffdoms were introduced...
