Ivory seal of Godwin, an unknown thegn – first half of eleventh century, British Museum
In later Anglo-Saxon England, 10th to 11th centuries, a thegn (pronounced /θeɪn/) or thane[1] (or thayn in Shakespearean English) was an aristocrat who owned substantial land in one or more counties. Thanes ranked at the third level in lay society, below the king and ealdormen.[2] Thanage refers to the tenure by which lands were held by a thane as well as the rank.
The term thane was also used in early medieval Scandinavia for a class of retainers, and thane was a title given to local royal officials in medieval eastern Scotland, equivalent in rank to the child of an earl.
^"Thane" Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
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