Thanage
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A thanage is a system of governance similar to but predating the peerage and nobility systems that were used for governance in the late middle ages.[1][2]
According to Sir Francis Palgrave's 1832 The Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth England's Norman invaders left in place some elements of an Anglo-Saxan thanage system of Governance.[3] He wrote that the older Thanes the Normans left in place were treated as if they were at the same level as an 11th Century Norman Baron.
References
- ↑ E.M. Dawson (1935). "Barony Titles". University of Edinburgh. https://era.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/32675/DawsonEM_1935redux.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y. Retrieved 2022-03-08. "In the earlier history of Scotland the nobility consisted largely of Thanes, the representatives either of the Celtic Moors or Toschachs and Earls who were the ancient Mormaors or greater Thanes. These early titles did not originally connote any property in land but represented the King's Officials, members of his blood for the most part, among whom the country had been partitioned with powers and duties of administering it on the King's behalf and collecting the Royal Revenue from the neyfs who tilled the soil."
- ↑ Francis Palgrave (1832). "The Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth: Anglo-Saxon Period. Containing the Anglo-Saxon Policy, and the Institutions Arising Out of Laws and Usages which Prevailed Before the Conquest, Part 2". J. Murray. https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=CrU9AAAAYAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=IA1&dq=Thanage+thanes+england+OR+english&ots=3dATI9hUcE&sig=BOFg_KAmko5tDSNroUMvJGn7Kvc#v=onepage&q=thanes&f=false. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
