Meaning of sithcundman | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A gesith.
   historical
2. The oldest inhabitant of a settlement.
   broadly

Examples

“[…]the author has suggested, for the first time, so far as we know⟳, but with great probability, that these sithcundmen, sixhyndmen, or lesser thanes, are the same tenants as in Domesday are denominated sokemen, holding freely of a lord, and bound by the general obligation of the Anglo-Saxon polity to be commended to some lord, but at liberty to shift this dependance from one superior to another, unless the land⟳ itself had been received under a feudal grant.”

“The Eorls constituted the nobility of the land⟳, and were subdivided into two orders, the Hlafords or land-owners, and the Sithcundmen, who were nobles by birth, but less wealthy than the hlafords. To this class, too, belonged the Thanes, who originally were those to whom land⟳ was granted, as a feudal tenure; this title, however, in due time became equivalent to Earl, the King’s thane ranking with the hlafords, and the lesser thane with the sithcundmen.”

“These classes are: ceorls, common freemen, with a were of 200 silver shillings, sithcundmen, with a were of 600 shillings, and king’s thegns, with a were of 1,200 shillings.”

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