Henry D'Oyly (4th Baron Hocknorton)

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Henry was born in 1107.

• Birth Notes

  b 1094, Of, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England   
  b. Abt 1107, of,Hook Norton,Oxfordshire,England ,  

Henry's father was Robert D'Oyly (3rd Baron Hocknorton) and his mother was Edith of Greystoke (Concubine of Henry I).  His paternal grandparents were Nigel  D'Oyly (2nd Baron Hocknorton) and Agnes. He had two brothers and two sisters, named Robert, Gilbert, Alice and Edith.  He was the third oldest of the five children.  He died at the age of 61 in 1168.  He was buried in Osney Abbey.

• Death Notes

  d. 1168
  d 1163
  

• General Notes

  1. Robert or Henry d'Oyly, 4th Baron of Hooknorton,  
  
  V M Norr: Some Early English Pedigrees P. 32 Named as Robert d'Oilly by one source and
  by another as Henry d'Oilly father of Henry who died 1232.
  Pedigrees of the Early D'Oylys shows Henry D'Oyly 4th Baron of Hooknorton ob 1168, father
  of Henry D'Oyly 5th Baron of Hooknorton ob 1232. Thomas de Newburg his nephew as heir
  to his lands.
  
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  The Lord Henry D'Oyly, 4th Baron of Hocknorton, and hereditary constable of Oxford castle, succeeded his father in the family estates and honours about 1150, and in 1155-6 was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, as also in 1157 and 1158-9,[100] He confirmed the grants of his father to Oseney Abbey (to the foundation and enlargement of which, in 1129 and 1149, he had been a consenting party), and with the consent of his half-brother, Robert Fitz-Edith,[101] gave to the canons of Oseney, fertile souls' health of King Henry I, Robert D'Oyly his father, Gilbert his brother, and all his ancestors, lands called Prestfield in Hocknorton, of the annual value of 10l.[102] This Henry D'Oyly repurchased, for 1200 marks, the manor of Weston on the Green, which his mother had distributed among various religious houses, and confirmed her donations to the monks of Thame[103] (previously at Otley); and, in consideration of an arrangement with the Oseney monks for the burial of his body in their convent, gave them his chief mansion-house in Weston, with a mill and meadow, and various other lands.[104] In another deed, styling himself the King's Constable, he confirms one of his father's grants to Eynsham Abbey, in return for which Godfrey the Abbot gave him one of his best palfreys. There are several other of his confirmation deeds to religious houses.[105] This Henry D'Oyly made Hocknorton his capital seat and barony, and in 1165 is recorded to have held 32 knights' fees and more. He married Maud de Bohun, dau. of Humphry de Bohun, ancestor of the Earls of Hereford and Essex, by Maud his wife, dau. of Edward de Saresbury, progenitor of the ancient Earls of Sarum; and on her marriage, her brother, Humphry de Bohun, gave D'Oyly in frank-marriage with her the manor of Bradenham, co. Bucks[106] while her husband, Henry D'Oyly, endowed her, ad ostium ecclesim, with the manor of Swereford, co. Oxford,[107] a lordship pertaining to the barony of Hocknorton. The arms of De Bohun were "Azure, a bend argent, cotised or, between six lions rampant of the last."[108]— Henry D'Oyly died about 1168,[109] and was interred in the middle of the presbytery of Oseney Abbey, with a flat marble stone over him, adorned with a cross fleury.109 He left his wife surviving with four young children (the eldest of whom was not out of his minority); and she married secondly, Walter Fitz-Robert, Lord of Woodham, co. Essex, and Daventry, co. Northampt., (who bore for arms "Or, a fesse between two chevronels gules," and was a baron of power and importance under Richard I.), whose second wife she was.[110] After her second marriage the said Maud had a tedious suit with one Cecily wife of Ralph Fitz-Wigan, for Swereford, her D'Oyly dower, which commenced in Mich. term 6 Ric. I. 1194, and lasted for six years after; but terminated in favour of D'Oyly's widow two years after her second husband's death, viz. in Easter term 1200.[111] Walter Fitz-Robert had died in 1198, and was buried in Little Dunmow church, co, Essex. Maud survived him also, and then resumed her maiden name of De Bohun, as appears by a fine, sur grant done et rendre, in 1st John, whereby she quit-claimed her right in two carucates of land in Hocknorton to Stephen de Walecote, pursuant to a suit (real or feigned) with the said Stephen, in 10th Ric. I.[112] By Fitz-Robert she had no issue; but by D'Oyly, her former husband,
  

Details of Henry's family with Maud de Bohun