Tosny Family Estates
1 Tosny Family Estates. Tosny1 Family Estates in Normandy c.1172 The Tosny family’s accumulation of properties in Normandy began, of course, with the estate and ville of Tosny itself, which was given by Hugues de Calvacamp, Archbishop of Rouen (942-989), to his brother Raoul(i) de Tosny. However, the lands which Archbishop Hugues alienated from the cathedral and archdiocese of Rouen included more than just Tosny. It is also very difficult to differentiate these former church lands from those obtained by the family from other sources. By 1172, the family’s possessions included those that are shown in the following maps and table. As can be seen, a number of them are considered to have come from the archbishop.2 In the table below these are marked with a . ESTATE J. Moore, DPhil thesis. 1 Acquigny ✟ ♜ Ⓑ ☧ XXX XXX “+” ® 2 Amfreville-la-Campagne ✟ ○ XXX (XXX) 3 Anceins ☧ 4 Bailieul (Saint-Pierre) ● XXX “x” 5 Berniers-sur-Seine ● XXX XXX “x” 6 Blainville-Cleron ● 7 Bourlier XXX “x” 8 Buisson-Vernet ® 9 Burey ● XXX XXX “x” 10 Cailly-sur-Eure ○ XXX XXX “+” 11 Carneville ● 12 Chanteloup ● XXX XXX “x” 13 Clères ● 1 Tosny is a name which has ancient roots - its correct pronunciation is “Tôny.” This has produced various spellings of the name through history by scribes who have heard these old pronunciations and made up their own spelling on the basis of what they heard, e.g. Tonei, Tony, Toney. 2 Musset, L., ‘Aux origines d’une classe dirigeante: les Tosny, grands barons normands du Xe au XIIIe siècles’, Francia, 5 (1978), 45-80, 70-73.
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