In later Anglo-Saxon England, a thegn (pronounced /θeɪn/; Old English: þeġn) or thane (or thayn in Shakespearean English) was an aristocrat who owned...

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...

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...

Archbishop/aetheling 15,000 Bishop/ealdorman 8,000 Hold/high-reeve 4,000 Mass-thegn/secular thegn 2,000 Prospering ceorl 2,000 Ceorl 200 Prospering Welshman 120s Non-prospering...

described thegns as "the country gentry of Anglo-Saxon England". Thegns were divided into three ranks: ealdormen, king's thegns, and median thegns. The ealdorman...

heads when seen from above. uaþr Veðr Veðr +     auk ok ok ×     þakn Þegn Þegn ×     auk ok ok ×     kunar Gunnarr Gunnarr +     raistu reistu ræistu...

(often called seneschals by historians) and butlers (or cup-bearers) were thegns who acted as personal attendants of kings in Anglo-Saxon England. Royal...

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...

"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...

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...

Anglo-Saxon status Cyning (king) Ealdorman (Earl after c.1000) Hold / High-reeve Thegn (thane) Thingmen / housecarl (retainer) Reeve / Verderer (bailiff) Ceorl...

Siward Barn (Old English: Sigeweard Bearn) was an 11th-century English thegn and landowner-warrior. He appears in the extant sources in the period following...

Wulfnoth Cild ([wuɫf.noːθ t͡ʃiɫd]; died c. 1014) was a South Saxon thegn who is regarded by historians as the probable father of Godwin, Earl of Wessex...

Anglo-Saxon status Cyning (king) Ealdorman (Earl after c.1000) Hold / High-reeve Thegn (thane) Thingmen / housecarl (retainer) Reeve / Verderer (bailiff) Ceorl...

Anglo-Saxon status Cyning (king) Ealdorman (Earl after c.1000) Hold / High-reeve Thegn (thane) Thingmen / housecarl (retainer) Reeve / Verderer (bailiff) Ceorl...

gesiþas ('companions') or þegnas ('thegns'), the latter coming to predominate. After the Norman Conquest the title 'thegn' was equated to the Norman 'baron'...

Anglo-Saxon status Cyning (king) Ealdorman (Earl after c.1000) Hold / High-reeve Thegn (thane) Thingmen / housecarl (retainer) Reeve / Verderer (bailiff) Ceorl...

complained of "a complete lack of places where the sons of nobles and of veteran thegns can receive an estate". Beorhtwulf's concession of wrongdoing suggests that...

toward the Isle of Ely, where he joined up with Hereward the Wake, a local thegn. Hereward's forces captured and looted Peterborough Abbey. William was able...

Æthelmær the Stout or Æthelmær the Fat (died 1015) a leading thegn from the 980s, discðegn (dish-bearer or seneschal) to King Æthelred the Unready, and...

ancestress of the Earls of Dunbar; she married Maldred, called son of 'thegn Crínán' by De obsessione Dunelmi (possibly identical to Crínán of Dunkeld...

Anglo-Saxon status Cyning (king) Ealdorman (Earl after c.1000) Hold / High-reeve Thegn (thane) Thingmen / housecarl (retainer) Reeve / Verderer (bailiff) Ceorl...

and Coelwulf, described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as "a foolish king's thegn" was imposed in his place. The army spent the following winter at Repton...

heather ˈɛvə(ɹ) With H-dropping. fain thane ˈfeɪn fain thegn ˈfeɪn fane thane ˈfeɪn fane thegn ˈfeɪn faun thorn ˈfɔːn Non-rhotic accents. fava farther...

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...

Anglo-Saxon status Cyning (king) Ealdorman (Earl after c.1000) Hold / High-reeve Thegn (thane) Thingmen / housecarl (retainer) Reeve / Verderer (bailiff) Ceorl...

Sweyn II of Denmark in 1047. Godwin was the son of Wulfnoth, probably a thegn and a native of Sussex. Godwin began his political career by supporting...

service in Europe was restricted to the landowning minor nobility. These thegns were the land-holding aristocracy of the time and were required to serve...

officers, the high priest and priestess. Within ritual settings, there are the thegn, a type of sergeant-at-arms/guard/watchman, who can also be responsible...

that all the fighting men of Sussex were at the battle, as the county's thegns were decimated and any that survived had their lands confiscated. William...