THANES
- THANE, a king's companion in Anglo-Saxon England, also THEGN [n]
- THANE, a man holding land by military service in Anglo-Saxon England [n]
- person, ranking with an earl's son, holding lands of the king; the chief of a clan, who became one of the king's barons
- member of any of several aristocratic classes of men ranking between earls and ordinary freemen, and granted lands by the king or by lords for military service