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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- Williams et al., A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain, page 229.
- 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.
- "Revealing Reading's Hidden History" (PDF). happymuseumproject.org. 14 June 2019.
- Bolton, Timothy (2017). Cnut the Great. Ceredigeon: Yale University Press. pp. 136, 139, 176.
- 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.
- Williams, Ann. The World Before Domesday: The English Aristocracy 871-1066. Bloomsbury. pp. 28, 29.
- The Waltham Chronicle, ed. Watkiss and Chibnall, pages 15, 18
- Dodwell, Anglo-Saxon Art: A New Perspective, page 119.
- Barlow, The Godwins: The Rise and Fall of a Noble Dynasty, page 109.
- "Great Danish Encyclopedia". Great Danish Encyclopedia. 24 August 2017. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- "Sven 2. Eristridsen". Den Store Danske.
- "The Manor of Stilton". Stilton in Cambridgeshire. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- "Great Danish Encyclopedia". 24 August 2017. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- "Esgar 2". domesday.pase.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
- Wareham, Lords and Communities in Early Medieval East Anglia, page 113.
- Lands held by persons called Esgar in 1066, PASE Domesday
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- "Danske runeinnskrifter fra vikingtiden". www.arild-hauge.com. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- Ryan Lavelle; Simon Roffey, eds. (2016). Danes in Wessex. Oxford: Oxbow Books. pp. 147, 148, 150–152.
- "Epping Forest Guardian".
- "This Is Local London".
- "East London & West Essex Guardian".
- "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.
External links
- Tofi 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England; apparently different from e.g. Tovi 2 "hwita"; may or may not match other entries eg Tofig 2
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