Robert D'Oyly - Possessions

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 550 acres (220 ha). 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.