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Hernetoc 2

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Summary

Hernetoc 2 had one virgate east Sussex TRE.

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
Shire Sussex	Phil. ref. 9,10	Vill Foxearle hundred	DB Spelling Hernetoc	Holder 1066 Hernetoc 'of Foxearle'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert, count of Eu	1086 Subtenant Olaf	Fiscal Value 0.13	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The location of Hernetoc 2’s tiny holding is as uncertain as the interpretation of his name. DB notes merely that it lay in Foxearle Hundred in Hastings Rape, the easternmost rape of Sussex, although it also records that Hernetoc ‘could go where he pleased’ and thereby indicates that he had power of alienation over his land and was not a dependant tenant. The most likely scenario is that Hernetoc was a free peasant settler on a beneficially-assessed virgate near the edge of the Pevensey Levels. It is conceivable that Hernetoc was connected or related to Olaf 13, who in 1086 held this land as his sole subtenancy.

If the DB form Hernetoc represents the name ‘Toki son of Arni’ (see ‘The name’, above) then it is possible that Hernetoc could be the same as Toki, who held a small but as yet unidentified holding at Chenenolle in an adjacent hundred TRE and constitutes the only certain instance of the name Toki as a TRE landholder in Sussex. Supporting evidence is lacking, however.