The jurisdiction, rank, or office of an abthain in medieval Scotland; the territory governed by an abthain.
From abthain plus -age (a suffix forming nouns indicating office, position, or collective identity). A formal feudal term for the abthain's authority and lands.
Scottish feudalism was incredibly complicated—you could have an abthanage within a larger earldom, and a single landowner might owe loyalty to multiple overlords, creating tangled webs of obligation!
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