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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.
Wang Mang (王莽, 23 AD) – Founder of the Xin dynasty; posthumously beheaded after being killed by a rebel mob. Guan Yu (關羽, 219) – executed during civil war by Sun Quan. Guan Ping (關平, 219) – son of Guan Yu, executed during civil war by Sun Quan. Yu Cong (于琮, 881) – Tang official beheaded by agrarian rebel Huang Chao.
John Mair, otherwise known as Major (1467–1550), teacher of George Buchanan, John Knox, and influencer of Calvin and Loyola. William Manderstown (c. 1485–1552), philosopher and Rector of the University of Paris. James McCosh (1811–1894) Thomas Reid (1710–1796), played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment.
Thegn. 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 ...
The following is a list of Scottish clans (with and without chiefs ) – including, when known, their heraldic crest badges, tartans, mottoes, and other information. The crest badges used by members of Scottish clans are based upon armorial bearings recorded by the Lord Lyon King of Arms in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland.
James Alexander Seton, the last British person to die in a duel in the United Kingdom – 1845. John Hampden Pleasants, American newspaper editor – 1846 [41] Edward Gilbert, U.S. newspaper editor, by James W. Denver near Sacramento – 1852 [42] Frédéric Constant Cournet, French revolutionary. Killed by Frenchman, Emmanuel Barthélemy in ...
Thegn, or thane, a retainer or official of a king or nobleman in medieval England and Scandinavia, or a class of aristocracy. Thane (Scotland), a title given to a local royal official in medieval eastern Scotland. Thane of Cawdor, a title in the Peerage of Scotland and a character in Macbeth.
Beowulf at Wikisource. Beowulf ( / ˈbeɪəwʊlf /; [ 1] Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːowuɫf]) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature. The date of composition is a matter of contention ...