Answer: thegns

AnswerCrossword Clue
THEGNSScots barons.
thegnsmember 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
thegnsTHEGN, a king's companion in Anglo-Saxon England, also THANE
thegnsthane 1
thegnsperson, ranking with an earl's son, holding lands of the king; the chief of a clan, who became one of the king's barons