• Tovi the Proud (also Tofi or Tofig, Tofi pruda), fl. 1018–1043, was a rich and powerful 11th-century Danish thegn who held a number of estates in various...
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  • Irish chieftain of the O'Neill dynasty of Ulster Simeon of Moscow (1316-1353), Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of Vladimir Tovi the Proud, a rich and powerful...
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    of Harthacnut's retinue; after the collapse and subsequent death of Harthacnut at the wedding feast of Tovi the Proud in 1042, Thorkell's wife and two...
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    Lambeth. The groom was Tovi the Proud, and the bride was Gytha, daughter of Osgod Clapa. Both men had been close to Cnut. According to the Anglo-Saxon...
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    suddenly in June 1042 "as he stood at his drink" at the wedding feast of Tovi the Proud, one of the Danish thegns of his father's court. At first glance...
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    Rood (redirect from The Rood)
    (Cnut the Great at Winchester Cathedral), necklaces (Lady Godiva to the Virgin accompanying the rood at Evesham Abbey), or swords (Tovi the Proud, Waltham...
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  • appears in narrative accounts on the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Gytha to his fellow-staller Tovi the Proud. It appears to be at these celebrations...
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    communities in the area. At the beginning of the 11th century, the church and manor of Waltham were held by an Anglo-Danish thegn called Tovi the Proud. A legend...
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    soon after dies during the wedding celebrations of Tovi the Proud at Lambeth and is succeeded by his half-brother Edward the Confessor as King. Encomium...
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    well-known, but the equally far-reaching grants made to Danish nobles by Cnut the Great less so. Ansgar's grandfather, Tovi the Proud, was a Danish thegn...
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