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Tonni 3

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Summary

Tonni 3 shared, with two other men, an estate in Yorkshire TRE with a total assessment of 12 carucates and with a value of £4. He was still alive in 1086, when he was regarded as a thegn and held a much smaller estate nearby but may have retained his TRE estate as well.

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 Yorkshire	Phil. ref. 25W2	Vill Appleton Roebuck	DB Spelling Tone	Holder 1066 Tonni 'of Appleton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Osbern d'Arques	1086 Subtenant 2 men	Fiscal Value 4.00	1066 Value 1.33	1086 Value 0.53	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

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
Shire Yorkshire	Phil. ref. 29W29	Vill Acaster Selby	DB Spelling Tona	Holder 1066 Thorkil 'of Acaster Selby'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Tonni 3, ‘of Appleton’	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.63	1066 Value 0.10	1086 Value 0.10	Confidence D	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Tonni 3, Farthin 3 and Alwine shared a large estate of 12 carucates TRE at Appleton Roebuck, between the rivers Wharfe and Ouse to the south-west of York. In 1086 this estate was in the hands of two men, unnamed in DB, as subtenants of Osbern d’Arques (Osbern 12).

Although the TRW subtenants of Appleton Roebuck are anonymous in DB, a nearby estate of 5 bovates at Acaster Selby was held in 1086 by a thegn called Tonni (but had been held by Thorkil TRE). Given the extreme rarity of the name Tonni and the immediate proximity of Appleton Roebuck and Acaster Selby (they are adjacent parishes, with the modern settlement foci less than 1½ miles apart), it is likely that the Tonni who held in Appleton Roebuck TRE and the Tonni who held Acaster Selby in 1086 were the same person. If so, then it is also possible that Tonni 3 was one of the two unnamed TRW subtenants at Appleton Roebuck and thus had retained part or all of his TRE estate after the Conquest, albeit as a subtenant.

Despite the rarity of the name Tonni, however, it is unlikely that Tonni 3 can be the same person as Tonni 2 because all of Tonni 2’s estates passed to, or were claimed by, Gilbert of Ghent after the Conquest and there are no strong grounds for believing that Tonni 2 was still alive in 1086. That Tonni 2’s closest TRE estate was 50 miles from those of Tonni 3 is a less significant distinction, however, because Tonni 2 was a substantial TRE landholder who could and did hold lands this far apart.