- his
thegns. In Latin, king's
thegn was
translated as
comes ("count"). In the law of Cnut, a king's
thegns paid a
larger heriot than
ordinary thegns. The...
- was
replaced with the word
thegn. In 1066,
there were an
estimated 5,000
thegns in England. Some of
these were "kings
thegns"
serving in the
royal household...
-
Thane of
Cawdor is a
title in the
Peerage of Scotland. The
current 7th Earl Cawdor, of Clan
Campbell of Cawdor, is the 25th
Thane of Cawdor. In William...
- (often
called seneschals by historians) and
butlers (or cup-bearers) were
thegns who
acted as
personal attendants of
kings in Anglo-Saxon England. Royal...
-
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...
-
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...
- 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...
-
Macbeth (/məkˈbɛθ/, full
title The
Tragedie of Macbeth) is a
tragedy by
William Shakespeare. It is
thought to have been
first performed in 1606. It dramatises...
-
intervention of
Bishop Ælfwine of
Winchester and Earl Godwin.
Edward met "the
thegns of all England" at Hursteshever,
likely near modern-day
Hurst Spit opposite...
- gesiþas ('companions') or þegnas ('
thegns'), the
latter coming to predominate.
After the
Norman Conquest the
title '
thegn' was
equated to the
Norman 'baron'...