Nigel  D'Oyly (2nd Baron Hocknorton)

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Nigel  was born in 1040 in Ouilly-le-Vicomte.  Nigel 's father was Walter D'Oyly (Seigneur de Oyly).  His paternal grandfather was Faulk d'Aulnay. He had two brothers named Robert and Gilbert.  He was the second oldest of the three children.  He died at the age of 72 in 1112 in Hook Norton.

• General Notes

  D'Oilly
  Pedigree of the Early D'Oylys P 369
  
  Constable to King William (Rufus)
  
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  The Lord Nigell D’Oyly, who became heir male and successor to his brothers in the dignities and territories granted him by William the Conqueror, and was progenitor of the Barons D'Oyly of Hocknorton, who differenced their arms to "Azure, two bendlets or."
  
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  The Lord Nigell D'Oyly succeeded his brother Robert, as second Baron of Hocknorton and Constable of Oxford Castle, in 1090, having accompanied him to England in 1066, and become a party to his foundation of St. George's collegiate church at Oxford in 1074. He owned all the estates granted to his brother at the Conquest; but like him made Oxford Castle his chief seat, and became a benefactor to the church, giving lands in Milcomb, co. Oxon, to the Abbey of Eynsham, near Oxford, for the health of himself, his wife, and children, Nigell D'Oyly flourished during the reign of William Rufus, and officiated as Constable of all England under that king. He appears to have been the first D'Oyly who added another bend to his coat-armour, and bore "Azure, two bendlets or;" he married "The Lady Agnes" (but of what family is unrecorded); and, dying in 1112, was succeeded by his eldest son Robert; having had issue by his said wife,

Details of Nigel 's family with Agnes