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Toli 11
Toli, son of Alsige, fl. 1066
Male
CPL
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Summary
Toli son of Alsige is listed in DB as having rights of sake and soke in Lincolnshire, but was probably dead by 1066 and cannot be traced as the owner of land 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincolnshire | T5 | - | Toli | Toli son of Alsige | - | - | - | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - | Map |
| Totals | ||||||||||||
Profile
Toli son of Alsige appears in DB only in a list of those holding sake and soke and toll and team in Lincolnshire which follows the borough returns at the start of the Lincolnshire folios (Lincs. T5). One view of this list has been that it names ‘the major T.R.E. landholders in Lincs.’ (Phill. Lincs.: note T 5), another that they were lords of land rather than holders, and therefore that some of what they held appears in DB assigned to their tenants rather than under their own names (Roffe 1989: 166). Neither explanation fits Toli particularly well. The only Toli named in Lincolnshire who could be Toli son of Alsige is Toli 12, whose holding was small and passed to Oger the Breton. Roffe’s hypothesis requires that Toli 12 was the lord of some of all of the other men whose lands Oger received, but that does not seem at all likely, given that Oger’s only predecessors in Lincolnshire were Earl Morcar (Morcar ), Leofwine ‘of Bourne’ (Leofwine ), Toli and Hereweard (Hereweard ), Ulf fenisc (Ulf ), and Cwenleofu (Cwenleofu ).More likely, the Lincolnshire list of soke holders dates from some time before 1066 and Toli son of Alsige was dead before the reference point of TRE.
Bibliography
Phill. Lincs.: Domesday Book, ed. John Morris, 31: Lincolnshire, ed. Philip Morgan and Caroline Thorn, 2 vols (Chichester: Phillimore, 1986)
Roffe 1990: David Roffe ‘From thegnage to barony: sake and soke, title, and tenants-in-chief’, Anglo-Norman Studies, 12: Proceedings of the Battle Conference, 1989 (1990), 157–76