Medieval Glossary
Thane
A later Anglo-Saxon term for a great noble or aristocrat. Earlier, the term gesith was used for this type of person.
Related term(s): Noble; Aristocrat; Gesith; Thegn
Category: Society
Added: 11.07.04
Source information:
Contamine, Phillippe. War in the Middle Ages. trans. Michael Jones. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1984. 51.
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