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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.
Callendar House is a mansion set within the grounds of Callendar Park in Falkirk, central Scotland. [1] During the 19th century, it was redesigned and extended in the style of a French Renaissance château fused with elements of Scottish baronial architecture. However, the core of the building is a 14th-century tower house.
Scotland. 56°36′30″N 03°00′13″W. / 56.60833°N 3.00361°W / 56.60833; -3.00361. Glamis / ˈɡlɑːmz / is a small village in Angus, Scotland, located 5 miles (8 km) south of Kirriemuir and 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Forfar. It is the location of Glamis Castle, the childhood home of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother .
Google Street View Catches Thieves In The Act. OKLAHOMA CITY – Police need your help identifying two armed thieves: They committed their crime back in 2011 and they probably think they got away ...
Lord Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis and quickly the Thane of Cawdor, is the title character and main protagonist in William Shakespeare 's Macbeth (c. 1603–1607). The character is loosely based on the historical king Macbeth of Scotland and is derived largely from the account in Holinshed's Chronicles (1577), a compilation of British history.
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 ...
The House of Moray or Clann Ruaidrí [1] [a] is a historiographical and genealogical construct to illustrate the succession of rulers whose base was in Moray and who ruled sometimes a larger kingdom, mainly the Kingdom of Scotland. An important feature of Scottish politics throughout the 11th century, they reached the height of their power with ...
A screening of Shrek the Third at the Vispathè cinema, in Campi Bisenzio, Italy IMAX at Gading XXI, North Jakarta (second largest IMAX in Indonesia). This is a list of movie theater chains across the world.