Tovi the Proud

Tovi the Proud fl. 1018-1043 (also Tofi or Tofig, Tofi pruda) was a rich and powerful 11th-century Danish thegn who held a number of estates in various parts of southern England. A translation of the legend of Waltham Abbey cites the Lord of Waltham as 'Tovi le Prude', "totius Angliae post regnem primus" (prude = prudent, wise, sagacious).[1] He was staller (a placeman or court office-holder) to King Cnut the Great.[2]

Notes
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  2. Williams et al., A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain, page 229.
  3. Roffe, David; Williams, Ann (2012). The English and their legacy, 900-1200 : essays in honour of Ann Williams. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 9781843837947. OCLC 948248312.
  4. "Revealing Reading's Hidden History" (PDF). happymuseumproject.org. 14 June 2019.
  5. Bolton, Timothy (2017). Cnut the Great. Ceredigeon: Yale University Press. pp. 136, 139, 176.
  6. Pooley, Charles (1877). "Chapter Two: The Legend of Monacute". An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Old Stone Crosses of Somerset. London: Longmans Green & Co.
  7. Williams, Ann. The World Before Domesday: The English Aristocracy 871-1066. Bloomsbury. pp. 28, 29.
  8. The Waltham Chronicle, ed. Watkiss and Chibnall, pages 15, 18
  9. Dodwell, Anglo-Saxon Art: A New Perspective, page 119.
  10. Barlow, The Godwins: The Rise and Fall of a Noble Dynasty, page 109.
  11. "Great Danish Encyclopedia". Great Danish Encyclopedia. 24 August 2017. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  12. "Sven 2. Eristridsen". Den Store Danske.
  13. "The Manor of Stilton". Stilton in Cambridgeshire. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  14. "Great Danish Encyclopedia". 24 August 2017. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  15. "Esgar 2". domesday.pase.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  16. Wareham, Lords and Communities in Early Medieval East Anglia, page 113.
  17. Lands held by persons called Esgar in 1066, PASE Domesday
  18. "The Vikings of Bjornstad : Old Norse Dictionary".
  19. "The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)".
  20. "Danske runeinnskrifter fra vikingtiden". www.arild-hauge.com. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  21. Ryan Lavelle; Simon Roffey, eds. (2016). Danes in Wessex. Oxford: Oxbow Books. pp. 147, 148, 150–152.
  22. "Epping Forest Guardian".
  23. "This Is Local London".
  24. "East London & West Essex Guardian".
  25. "Waltham Abbey revives 1,000-year-old legend".

References
  • Barlow, Frank (2002). The Godwins: The Rise and Fall of a Noble Dynasty. ISBN 978-0-582-42381-7.
  • Dodwell, Charles Reginald (1982). Anglo-Saxon Art: A New Perspective. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-0861-1.
  • Wareham, Andrew (2005). Lords and Communities in Early Medieval East Anglia. The Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-155-6.
  • Watkiss, Leslie; Marjorie Chibnall, eds. (1994). The Waltham Chronicle. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-822164-7.
  • Williams, Ann; Alfred P. Smyth; D. P. Kirby, eds. (1991). A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain. ISBN 978-1-85264-047-7.
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