twyhyndman

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English twihynde / twyhynde man(n).

Noun

twyhyndman (plural twyhyndmen)

  1. (criminal law, historical) A man worth two hundred shillings in wergeld.
    • 1849, John Allen, Inquiry into the Rise and Growth of the Royal Prerogative in England, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, , page 115:
      In this computation a twelfhyndman was valued at six ceorls or twyhyndmen, because the weregild of a twelfhyndman was equal to the weregilds of six ceorls.
    • 1885, John Beddoe, The Races of Britain: A Contribution to the Anthropology of Western Europe, Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, ; London: Trübner and Co., , page 63:
      The English burgess was probably eorl or ceorl, twelfhyndman or twyhyndman, according to his birth and descent;
    • 1915, E[phraim] Lipson, An Introduction to the Economic History of England, volume I (The Middle Ages), London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., , page 27:
      They are grouped with the sokemen and liberi homines as twyhyndmen whose wergild was two hundred shillings, as distinct from the thegn class or twelfhyndmen whom to slay involved a penalty of twelve hundred shillings.
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