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Toli 8

Name

Summary

Toli 8 was a small landowner in Oxfordshire with at least one manor of about 1½ hides worth £1 TRE. The gaps in the record of landownership in Oxfordshire mean that he may well have had more. He survived in 1086 as a tenant of Miles Crispin on that and another manor, together amounting to some 2½ hides worth £2.

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 Oxfordshire	Phil. ref. 35,13	Vill Cowley	DB Spelling Toli	Holder 1066 Toli ‘of Cowley’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Miles Crispin	1086 Subtenant Toli	Fiscal Value 1.58	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

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
Shire Oxfordshire	Phil. ref. 35,13	Vill Cowley	DB Spelling Toli	Holder 1066 Toli ‘of Cowley’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Miles Crispin	1086 Subtenant Toli	Fiscal Value 1.58	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence -	Map
Shire Oxfordshire	Phil. ref. 35,29	Vill Garsington	DB Spelling Toli	Holder 1066 -	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Miles Crispin	1086 Subtenant Toli	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

In 1086 Toli held two small manors at Cowley and Garsington as a subtenant of the Norman lord Miles Crispin, places which were a couple of miles apart on the south-east side of Oxford. The manors descended together in the twelfth century, held of Miles Crispin’s honor of Wallingford in 1166 (with other manors) by a knight called Richard de Chausey (VCH Oxon. V, 80, 141). Richard can hardly have been a direct descendant of Toli, as he had a French topographical surname, evidently from the Iles Chausey (Manche) at the entrance to the bay of Mont Saint-Michel.

Toli had certainly held Cowley in 1066 and may well have held Garsington: as so often in Oxfordshire, the name of the TRE holder is missing from the DB entry. Toli’s manor at Cowley was the smallest of four in the vill; at Garsington he had the only land not owned by Abingdon abbey. He farmed on a small scale in 1086, with a demesne plough and a slave or two on each of his two manors.

Bibliography

VCH Oxon. V: The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Oxford, V, ed. Mary D. Lobel (London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1957)