Robert D'Oyly (also spelt Robert D'Oyley de Liseaux, Robert Doyley, Robert de Oiley, Robert d'Oilly and Robert D'Oyley and Roberti De Oilgi) was a Norman nobleman who accompanied William the Conqueror on the Norman Conquest, his invasion of England. He was the son of Walter D'Oyly and elder brother to Nigel D'Oyly. He married Ealdgyth, the daughter of Wigod, the Saxon lord of Wallingford. After Wigod's death, William appointed Robert the lord of Wallingford, and ordered him to fortify Wallingford Castle between 1067 and 1071. The Normans (adapted from the name Northmen or Norsemen) were a mixture of the indigenous people of France and the Viking invaders under the leadership of Hrolf Ganger, who adopted the French name Rollo and swore allegiance to the king of France (Charles the Simple). ... William I ( 1027 – September 9, 1087), was King of England from 1066 to 1087. ... Bayeux Tapestry depicting events leading to the Battle of Hastings The Norman Conquest of England was the conquest of the Kingdom of England by William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy), in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings and the subsequent Norman control of England. ... Wigod was the 11th century thane of the English town of Wallingford. ... The famous parade helmet found at Sutton Hoo, probably belonging to King Raedwald of East Anglia circa 625. ... Map sources for Wallingford at grid reference SU6089 Wallingford is a small town in Oxfordshire in southern England. ... Wallingford Castle 1913. ... Events Constantine X emperor of the Byzantine Empire dies. ... Events Byzantine Empire loses Battle of Manzikert to Turkish army under Alp Arslan. ...

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 550 acres (2 km²). 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. Oakley is a village and Civil Parish in Buckinghamshire, England with a population of 1,059 (2001 Census) and area of 2,206 acres (8. ... The hide was a variable unit of land area used in medieval England, defined according to its arable yield and taxable potential rather than its exact dimensions. ... a tenure under which property in England and Scotland was held under the king or a lord of a town was maintained for a yearly rent or for rendering a service such as watching and warding This article is a stub. ... Buckingham is a town situated in north Buckinghamshire approximately 10 miles from the border with Northamptonshire. ...

The Manor of Iver became part of the possessions of Robert D'Oyley, who held Eureham (as Iver was called in the Domesday Book), for seventeen hides. The land was sufficient for thirty ploughs. It was estimated at £22, it had been exchanged for Padbury, with Robert Clarenbold of the Marsh. The daughter of Robert D'Oyley married Milo Crispin, to whom the Manor of Iver descended. Iver is located in the south-east corner of the county of Buckinghamshire and it forms one of the largest parishes under the authority of South Bucks District Council. ... Doomesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William the Conqueror, that was similar to a census by a government of today. ... For the suburb of Perth, Western Australia see Padbury. ...

He later built Oxford Castle. "He was so powerful a man in his time, that no one durst oppose him", says one account. Ancient plan of Oxford Castle. ...

He uncle of Robert Doyley, son of his brother Nigel D'Oyly, who was founder of Osney Priory, Oxford. Osney, Osney Island, or Osney Town is a riverside community in the west of the city of Oxford, located off the Botley Road, just west of the citys main railway station. ... Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ...

He was an ancestor of Henry D'Oyly, one of the major feudal barons of the Magna Carta. Magna Carta Magna Carta (Latin for Great Charter, literally Great Paper), also called Magna Carta Libertatum, was an English charter originally issued in 1215. ...

Reference

• The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, by George Lipscomb, Esq. M.D. - 1847.