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  2. Thane (Scotland) - Wikipedia

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    Esquire. Gentleman, Gentlewoman. Ministerialis. Lord of the Manor. v. t. e. Thane ( / ˈθeɪn /; Scottish Gaelic: taidhn) [1] was the title given to a local royal official in medieval eastern Scotland, equivalent in rank to the son of an earl, [2] who was at the head of an administrative and socio-economic unit known as a thanedom or thanage.

  3. Clan Brodie - Wikipedia

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    Clan profile. Clan chief: Alexander Tristan Duff Brodie of Brodie, 27th Chief of Clan Brodie; and is a member of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs; Clan Crest badge: Note: the crest badge is made up of the chief's heraldic crest and motto, Chief's motto: Unite. Chief's crest: A right hand holding a bunch of arrows all Proper.

  4. Scotland in the High Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    History of Scotland. The High Middle Ages of Scotland encompass Scotland in the era between the death of Domnall II in 900 AD and the death of King Alexander III in 1286, which was an indirect cause of the Wars of Scottish Independence . At the close of the ninth century, various competing kingdoms occupied the territory of modern Scotland.

  5. Society of Scotland in the High Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    These texts give additional understanding on high medieval Scottish society, so long as inferences are kept conservative. The legal tract that has come down to us as the Laws of Brets and Scots, lists five grades of man: King, mormaer/earl, toísech/thane, ócthigern and serf. For pre-twelfth century Scotland, slaves are added to this category.

  6. Crínán of Dunkeld - Wikipedia

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    Crínán of Dunkeld, also called Crinan the Thane (c. 975–1045), was the hereditary abbot of the monastery of Dunkeld, and perhaps the Mormaer of Atholl. Crínán was progenitor of the House of Dunkeld, the dynasty which would rule the Kingdom of Scotland until the later 13th century. He was the son-in-law of one king, and the father of another.

  7. List of family seats of Scottish nobility - Wikipedia

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    Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry. Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries and Galloway; Bowhill House, Selkirk and Boughton House, Northamptonshire. Dalkeith Palace, Midlothian and Montagu House, London. Duke of Lennox and Duke of Gordon. Goodwood House, West Sussex. Gordon Castle, Huntly Castle, and Richmond House, London. Duke of Argyll.

  8. Scottish society in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    Scottish society in the Middle Ages. Scottish society in the Middle Ages is the social organisation of what is now Scotland between the departure of the Romans from Britain in the fifth century and the establishment of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century. Social structure is obscure in the early part of the period, for which there ...

  9. Clan Shaw - Wikipedia

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    A Victorian era, romanticised depiction of Private Farquhar Shaw of the Blackwatch by R. R. McIan, from The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, published in 1845. The progenitor of the Clan Shaw is believed to be one Shaw MacDuff who was a younger son of Duncan, the Thane or Earl of Fife, who was a descendant of Kenneth MacAlpin. [3]