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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.
Ivory seal of Godwin, an unknown thegn – first half of eleventh century, British Museum. In later Anglo-Saxon England, a thegn ( pronounced / θeɪn /; Old English: þeġn) 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 ...
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.
Anabella Drummond. Anabella Drummond (c. 1350–1401) was Queen of Scotland by marriage to King Robert III of Scotland . Queen of Scotland from 1390 - 1401, she is praised for her management of state affairs during the latter end of Robert III's reign, [1] and gave birth to future King James I of Scotland in 1394.
Margaret Drummond (c. 1340 – after 31 January 1375), known also by her first married name as Margaret Logie, was the second queen of David II of Scotland and a daughter of Sir Malcolm de Drummond, 10th Thane of Lennox (b. after 1295 – d. 17 October 1346 at the Battle of Neville's Cross, Durham, England) by his wife Margaret Graham, Countess ...
Queen Margaret of Denmark (1456–86), wife of James III. Women in Medieval Scotland includes all aspects of the lives and status of women between the departure of the Romans from North Britain in the fifth century to the introduction of the Renaissance and Reformation in the early sixteenth century. Medieval Scotland was a patriarchal society ...
Isabella of Mar. Margaret of England. Margaret of Huntingdon, Lady of Galloway. Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway. Maria de Ergadia. Marie de Coucy. Marjory de Schireham. Marjory, Countess of Buchan. Matilda, Countess of Angus.
This list of Scottish Gaelic given names shows Scottish Gaelic given names beside their English language equivalent. In some cases, the equivalent can be a cognate , in other cases it may be an Anglicised spelling derived from the Gaelic name, or in other cases it can be an etymologically unrelated name.