What Does Thane Mean?
Thane Was the Title Given to a Local Royal Official in Medieval Eastern Scotland, Equivalent in Rank to the Son of an Earl, Who Was at the Head of an...
Thane was the title given to a local royal official in medieval eastern Scotland, equivalent in rank to the son of an earl, who was at the head of an administrative and socio-economic unit known as a thanedom.
What does the title thane mean?
Thane, also spelled Thegn, in English history before the Norman Conquest (1066), a free retainer or lord, corresponding in its various grades to the post-Conquest baron and knight. The word is extant only once in the laws before the time of King Aethelstan (d. 939).
Is thane a German name?
thane (n.)
The modern spelling is from Scottish, where early 13c. it came to mean "chief of a clan, king's baron," and it has predominated in English probably due to the influence of "Macbeth;" normal orthographic changes from Old English ðegn would have produced Modern English *thain.
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