- 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...
-
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...
- "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...
- a
Scandinavian equivalent of the shipfyrd.
Thegn Trinoda necessitas, the
obligation of Anglo-Saxon
thegns, one of
which is to
raise the fyrd. Preston...
- 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.
Thegns were...
