Toli

Male
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Discussion of the name

Toli is a masculine name of specifically East Scandinavian provenance; in the context of its adoption in England that means Danish. By the eleventh century it was clearly used as a name in its own right, though it had originated as a short form of names such as þorlakr, þorleikr, and þorlaugr (von Feilitzen 1937: 386; Fellows Jensen 1968: 289‑90). Outside DB, the only people called Toli hitherto recorded in PASE are a Danish earl who rebelled against Edward the Elder c. 920 (Toli 1) and the sheriff of East Anglia in Edward the Confessor’s reign (Toli 2), who indeed appears in DB and is profiled here.

The name was strikingly common in Lincolnshire in the later twelfth and early thirteenth century (less so in Yorkshire), a fact which helps to explain the multiplicity of persons called Toli in DB.

Note: five instances of Toli in Great Domesday Book (Devon 1, Som. 1, Wilts. 3) and one of Tholi (Dors.) have been assigned to the name Tholf; and instance of Tolus (Devon) in Exon has been assigned to the name Tholf.

Bibliography

von Feilitzen 1937: Olof von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1937)

Fellows Jensen 1968: Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (Copenhagen: I Kommission hos Akademisk Forlag, 1968)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Toli(us); Thole, Tholi, Tohli

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Tóli

  Phillimore edition: Toli

  Alecto edition: Toli

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire Phil. ref. Vill DB Spelling Holder 1066 Lord 1066 Tenant-in-Chief 1086 1086 Subtenant Fiscal Value 1066 Value 1086 Value Conf. Show on Map
Derbyshire 17,14 Ilkeston Toli Toli ‘of Sandiacre’ - Toli, king's thegn - 0.38 0.00 0.00 - Map
Derbyshire 17,15 Sandiacre Toli Toli ‘of Sandiacre’ - Toli, king's thegn - 1.33 0.67 0.67 - Map
Essex 30,17 Cuton Tolius Toli ‘of Cuton’ (Essex) - Geoffrey de Mandeville Osbert 'of Leckhampstead' 2.25 2.00 3.00 - Map
Kent 5,105 Higham Toli Toli ‘of Higham’ - Odo, bishop of Bayeux Adam fitzHubert 5.00 6.00 7.50 - Map
Kent 5,24 St Mary Cray Toli Toli ‘of Higham’ Edward, king Odo, bishop of Bayeux Adam fitzHubert 2.00 6.00 10.00 - Map
Lincolnshire 27,58 Billingborough Toli Toli 12, ‘of Billingborough’ - Alfred of Lincoln Jocelin fitzLambert 1.00 0.50 0.50 - Map
Lincolnshire 42,10 Aslackby - Toli 12, ‘of Billingborough’ - Oger the Breton - 0.38 0.00 0.00 - Map
Lincolnshire 42,11 Rippingale - Toli 12, ‘of Billingborough’ - Oger the Breton - 0.50 0.00 0.00 - Map
Lincolnshire 42,12 Ringstone - Toli 12, ‘of Billingborough’ - Oger the Breton - 0.50 0.00 0.00 - Map
Lincolnshire 42,9 Laughton Toli Toli 12, ‘of Billingborough’ - Oger the Breton - 0.25 1.00 1.00 - Map
Lincolnshire T5 - Toli Toli son of Alsige - - - 0.00 0.00 0.00 - Map
Norfolk 14,35 Broome Toli Toli, sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk Baldwin, abbot of Bury St Edmunds Baldwin, abbot of Bury St Edmunds Frodo brother of Abbot Baldwin 1.00 1.00 1.00 - Map
Norfolk 21,14 Cleythorpe Toli Toli ‘of Wereham' - Reynold fitzIvo Arnold 'of Cleythorpe' 0.00 3.00 2.00 - Map
Norfolk 21,2 Barton Bendish Toli Toli ‘of Wereham' - Reynold fitzIvo - 6.00 4.00 3.00 - Map
Norfolk 21,4 Wereham Toli Toli ‘of Wereham' - Reynold fitzIvo - 2.00 8.00 5.00 - Map
Norfolk 21,5 Upwell Toli Toli ‘of Wereham' - Reynold fitzIvo - 1.00 8.00 6.00 - Map
Oxfordshire 35,13 Cowley Toli Toli ‘of Cowley’ - Miles Crispin Toli 1.58 1.00 1.00 - Map
Suffolk 27,11 Wherstead Toli Toli ‘of Wherstead’ Robert fitzWimarc Swein of Essex - 1.00 0.50 0.50 - Map
Warwickshire 18,12 Whatcote Toli Toli ‘of Oxhill’ - Hugh de Grandmesnil Roger 'the man of Hugh de Grandmesnil' 5.00 5.00 7.00 - Map
Warwickshire 18,5 Oxhill Toli Toli ‘of Oxhill’ - Hugh de Grandmesnil - 10.00 10.00 11.00 - Map
Warwickshire 18,6 Shrewley Toli Toli ‘of Oxhill’ - Hugh de Grandmesnil - 3.00 1.00 1.50 - Map
Worcestershire 8,15 North Piddle Toli Toli ‘of Oxhill’ Edwin, abbot of Westminster Gilbert Crispin, abbot of Westminster Urse d'Abetot 5.00 1.50 3.00 - Map
Yorkshire 1W64 Keighley Thole Toli ‘of Keighley’ - William, king - 1.50 0.00 0.00 - Map
Totals

Tenant-in-Chief 1086 demesne estates (no subtenants)

Shire Phil. ref. Vill DB Spelling Holder 1066 Lord 1066 Tenant-in-Chief 1086 1086 Subtenant Fiscal Value 1066 Value 1086 Value Conf. Show on Map
Derbyshire 17,14 Ilkeston Toli Toli ‘of Sandiacre’ - Toli, king's thegn - 0.38 0.00 0.00 - Map
Derbyshire 17,15 Sandiacre Toli Toli ‘of Sandiacre’ - Toli, king's thegn - 1.33 0.67 0.67 - Map
Derbyshire 17,15 Sandiacre Toli Cnut 'of Sandiacre' - Toli, king's thegn - 1.33 0.67 0.67 - Map
Derbyshire 17,15 Sandiacre Toli Glædwine 'of Sandiacre' - Toli, king's thegn - 1.33 0.67 0.67 - Map
Derbyshire 17,16 Sandiacre Toli Osmund Benz - Toli, king's thegn - 1.00 0.00 0.00 - Map
Derbyshire 17,17 Sandiacre Toli Toki son of Auti, antecessor of Geoffrey Alselin - Toli, king's thegn - 0.25 0.00 0.00 - Map
Totals

Lord 1066

Shire Phil. ref. Vill DB Spelling Holder 1066 Lord 1066 Tenant-in-Chief 1086 1086 Subtenant Fiscal Value 1066 Value 1086 Value Conf. Show on Map
Norfolk 1,229 Mundham Tohli 1 free man 'of Mundham I' Toli the sheriff William, king William de Noyers 0.07 0.00 0.00 - Map
Norfolk 21,2 Barton Bendish Toli 7 free men Toli Reynold fitzIvo - 0.00 0.50 0.50 - Map
Norfolk 21,4 Wereham - 4 free men Toli Reynold fitzIvo - 0.10 0.00 0.00 - Map
Norfolk 21,4 Stoke Ferry - 5 free men Toli Reynold fitzIvo - 0.12 0.16 0.16 - Map
Norfolk 21,4 Stoke Ferry - 2 sokemen Toli Reynold fitzIvo Roger 'the man of Reynold fitzIvo' 0.31 0.42 0.42 - Map
Norfolk 21,4 Stoke Ferry - 2 sokemen Toli Reynold fitzIvo Hugh de Houdain 0.31 0.42 0.42 - Map
Norfolk 21,5 Upwell - 17 free men Toli Reynold fitzIvo - 0.53 0.67 0.67 - Map
Norfolk 47,4 Langhale Tohli 1 free man Toli the sheriff Isaac - 1.00 0.35 0.50 - Map
Suffolk 4,15 Middleton Toli Asmoth 'of Wrabbatun' Toli the sheriff Hugh, earl Roger Bigod 0.03 0.03 0.03 B Map
Suffolk 51,1 Creeting St Peter Tholi 1 free man Toli the sheriff Walter de Saint-Valery - 0.09 0.15 0.15 - Map
Suffolk 6,106 Fordley Toli Osfrith the man of Toli Toli the sheriff Robert Malet - 0.06 0.00 0.00 - Map
Suffolk 7,29 Opituna Toli Bondi 'of Opituna' Toli the sheriff Roger Bigod - 0.50 0.80 0.80 - Map
Suffolk 7,31 Middleton Toli Leofric the deacon Toli the sheriff Roger Bigod - 0.03 0.05 0.05 - Map
Suffolk 7,36 Darsham Toli 1 free man Toli the sheriff Roger Bigod Ansketil the priest 'of Darsham' 0.14 0.13 0.13 - Map
Suffolk 7,67 Coddenham Tolius Wighulf 'antecessor of Roger Bigod' Toli the sheriff Roger Bigod Warenger 'of Hedingham' 0.63 1.80 1.80 - Map
Totals

Subtenant in 1086

Shire Phil. ref. Vill DB Spelling Holder 1066 Lord 1066 Tenant-in-Chief 1086 1086 Subtenant Fiscal Value 1066 Value 1086 Value Conf. Show on Map
Lincolnshire 12,58 Drayton Toli Greifi 'of Horbling hundred' - Alan, count Toli 0.75 0.80 0.80 - Map
Lincolnshire 12,88 Kirton Toli Eadric 'of Kirton' - Alan, count Toli 1.25 2.00 1.00 - Map
Oxfordshire 35,13 Cowley Toli Toli ‘of Cowley’ - Miles Crispin Toli 1.58 1.00 1.00 - Map
Oxfordshire 35,29 Garsington Toli - - Miles Crispin Toli 1.00 1.00 1.00 - Map
Totals