Toli 4

Toli ‘of Wereham’ (Norf.), fl. 1066
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Summary

Toli 4 was a landowner in west Norfolk whose four manors were assessed at about 10 carucates and paid £28. He was lord of 35 free men and sokemen in the immediate vicinity.

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
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
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 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
Totals

Profile

Toli 4 can be confidently identified on the basis of the common succession of one Norman tenant-in-chief to a closely set cluster of four good-sized manors in west Norfolk. Those features serve to distinguish him from Toli 2, sheriff of East Anglia, and from the Lincolnshire Tolis (Toli 11 and Toli 12).

The tenant-in-chief who succeeded Toli 4 was Reynold fitzIvo; frequent references in his Domesday return (he held only in Norfolk) name his post-Conquest predecessor as Wihenoc, a Breton dispossessed in the aftermath of the failed rebellion of 1075 by the Anglo-Breton earl of East Anglia, Ralph de Gael. Toli was probably Wihenoc’s and Reynold’s most important antecessor by value.

Toli 4’s estate was centred on Wereham and Barton Bendish, between the heaths of south-west Norfolk and the Wissey valley. It extended to Cleythorpe, on the heaths 6 miles east, and to Upwell, 15 miles west amid the vast fens. The four manors between them were assessed at over 9 carucates (the figure is missing for Cleythorpe) and was worth £18 but paid £23. In 1066 Toli had two demesne ploughs on each manor and twenty slaves in all; he had meadowland and kept sheep and pigs at all four places, and owned some woodland, two fisheries, and a half share of a watermill. His dependent peasants numbered over fifty. The centre of the estate in 1066 was almost certainly Wereham, the largest of the four manors. There were no other landowners there, and Toli had a stud farm with twenty-eight mares and twenty-five foals.

Toli was also the lord of thirty-five free men and sokemen (holding less than 1½ carucates all told) in the same vills and at Stoke Ferry, on the banks of the Wissey a mile from Wereham.