• General Notes

  Aldgitha de Wallingford,   b. Abt 1040, of Wallingford, Berkshire, England 
  
  dau & heiress of Wigot, a noble Saxon
  
  m. 1066
  
  ----------------------------------only child and heiress of Wigo de Walingford, a noble Saxon under Harold the Second, and ante-conquestal proprietor of the castle and honour of Walingford, co. Berks; which Wigo from the first had acknowledged the supremacy of Duke William, and splendidly entertained him until Archbishop Stigand and the adherents of Edgar had Submitted to the Norman yoke; and it is said that Robert D'Oyly's marriage with his daughter was an affair of policy, to propitiate the Saxons, while rewarding her husband, the Norman.[35] The arms assigned to de Walingford are, "Argent, on a fesse gules, a lion passant of the field" (but very improbably were known to the Saxon Wigo); and there are pedigrees which seem to derive Wigo de Walingford from that celebrated Saxon hero, Guy Earl of Warwick.[36] Wigo de Walingford died soon after his daughter's marriage, and her husband D'Oyly then succeeded to all his estates, viz. the castle and honour of Walingford (including Beckley, co. Oxon,[37] High Wycombe, co. Bucks,[38] and Colham manor in Hillingdon,[39] co. Middlesex), in her right.[40

Details of Algitha's family with Robert D'Oyly (1st Baron Hocknorton)