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Definition of Thanage

Thanage
Thanage Than"age, n. The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom.

Meaning of Thanage from wikipedia

- A thanage was an area of land held by a thegn in Anglo-Saxon England. Thanage can also denote the rank held by such a thegn. In medieval Scotland David...
- head of an administrative and socio-economic unit known as a thanedom or thanage. [T]he "thane", though he later developed into a laird, was at first an...
- [etc.], Aberdeen, 1894 [3] Temple, William, The Thanage of Fermartyn Temple, William, The Thanage of Fermartyn 'Parishes: Newchurch', in A History of...
- ranked at the third level in lay society, below the king and ealdormen.Thanage refers to the tenure by which lands were held by a thane as well as the...
- valued the thanage in 1266 at £96 13s 4d, though by the time of the Alexander III rental this had increased to £106 13s 4d. The thanage's origins probably...
- feudal barony and thanage, 965 metres south west of Pennan in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Hugh, Earl of Ross was granted the barony and thanage of Glendowachy...
- nobles, or some combination of these. Likewise, the Pictish shires and thanages, traces of which are found in later times, are thought to have been adopted...
- Library, retrieved 22 October 2011. Grant, Alexander (1993). Thanes and Thanages, from the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries. in Grant & Stringer (1993)...
- John Lyon, who was known as the White Lyon due to his complexion, the thanage of Glamis and five years later he was made Chamberlain of Scotland. Sir...
- Scotland. "Gight Castle (SM2508)". Retrieved 23 April 2020. William Temple, Thanage of Fermartyn (Aberdeen, 1894), p.73. Gight Castle River Ythan Methlick...