Bridge. It is possible, however, that he merely fortified an older crossing point. Works on the Thames channel at the present-day Eights Reach have also been attributed to Robert D'Oyly. Possessions Robert owned land in Oakley, Buckinghamshire. The village was valued at £6, and its land consisted of 5¾ hides. With Oakley's clay soil the total cultivated land would have been around . Robert, also, held a tenure (or burgage) in Buckingham held by a man of Azor, the son of Tote, who paid sixteen pence annually and to the king, five pence. The Manor of Iver became part of the possessions of Robert D'Oyly, who held Eureham (as Iver was called in the Domesday Book), for seventeen hides. The land was enough for thirty ploughs. It was estimated at £22, it had been exchanged for Padbury, with Robert Clarenbold of the Marsh. D'Oyly's daughter Maud married Miles Crispin, to whom the Manor of Iver descended. D'Oyly also owned a considerable amount of land in Oxfordshire and in Oxford itself recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086: Oxford Castle, and the collegiate church of St George's within the castle, that was later acquired by Osney Abbey The Castle Mill in Oxford. This belonged to Ælfgar of Mercia before the Conquest and was escheated to the Crown in 1163 following the death of Henry D'Oyly. The church of St Peter-in-the-East in Oxford, that now forms part of St Edmund Hall The church of St Mary Magdalen 42 dwellings both within and without the city wall of Oxford The settlements of Watlington, Goring, Bicester, Kidlington, Water Eaton and three manors in Hook Norton Land and dwellings in a further 22 Oxfordshire villages Family With his wife Ealdgyth he had a daughter and heiress Maud who first married Miles Crispin (d. 1107), Lord of Wallingford, and afterwards Brien FitzCount, lord of Burgavennu (the faithful ally of the Empress Matilda), but leaving no issue, was succeeded by Nigel D'Oyly, her uncle, who was constable to William Rufus and Baron of Hocknorton. Robert and Ealdgyth were buried in the abbey in Abingdon. References Further reading External links History of Norfolk Robert D'Oyly at opendomesday 11th-century births 1091 deaths Anglo-Normans Norman warriors High Sheriffs of Oxfordshire People from Oxford People from Wallingford, Oxfordshire Robert Year of birth unknown Norman conquest of England