| The thegn offers a heriot with a prayer that his will may stand. |
| At the time of the Norman Conquest the manor was held by a Saxon thegn, Gamel. |
| But now the word was thegn, though the status was much the same. |
| It was possible, however, for men who were not owners of land, to rise to the rank of thegn. |
| By the eleventh century, almost every estate had a church of stone or wood, built and endowed with land by the local thegn. |
| He said that he was Godric the son of Ulchel, a thegn of the Gainas. |
