Thane (Scotland)
Thane was the title given to a local royal official in medieval eastern Scotland, equivalent in rank to the son of an earl,[1] who was at the head of an administrative and socio-economic unit known as a shire or thanage.
In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Macbeth holds the title "Thane of Glamis".
See also
References
- ↑ "thane - definition of thane in English from the Oxford dictionary". oxforddictionaries.com.
Further reading
- Grant, Alexander (1993). "Thanes and Thanages, from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Centuries". In Alexander Grant and Keith J. Stringer. Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community. Essays Presented to G.W.S. Barrow. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 39–81.
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