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Tholf 4 was a small landowner in north Derbyshire whose two estates of little more than 1 carucate were worth £1 10s.
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
Holder 1066 DB Spelling
Holder 1066
Lord 1066
Tenant-in-Chief 1086
1086
subtenant
Fiscal value
1066
value
1086 value
Holder 1066 ID conf.
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Derbyshire
17,4
Totley
Tolf
Tholf 'of Coal Aston'
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1 king's thegn 'of Totley'
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0.50
0.50
0.05
A
Map
Derbyshire
17,5
Coal Aston
Tolf
Tholf 'of Coal Aston'
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Leofwine 'of Coal Aston'
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0.69
1.00
1.00
A
Map
Total
1.19
1.50
1.05
Coal Aston and Totley are 4 miles apart in the moorland foothills of north Derbyshire. They appear in successive entries among the lands of the king’s thegns, with the TRE holder’s name spelled identically (for once among all the Tholfs).
The king’s thegn Leofwine had succeeded Tholf at Coal Aston. It is not clear who held Totley in 1086, since it is one of six among the twenty-three manors of the king’s thegns which does not say. Any supposition that Tholf 4 remained in possession is undermined by the facts that he had been replaced by Leofwine at Coal Aston and that DB does sometimes say explicitly in this section that the TRE holder continued in possession (Derb. 17:10, 13, 15, 18).
There is nothing to link Tholf 4 with any of the other Tholfs. In particular the estates assigned to the nearest, Tholf 3, some 50 miles away in Staffordshire, were equally small and very unlikely to have belonged to the same person.
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