John D'Oyly (abt. 1320 - abt. 1363)

Ancestors

Descendants

Biography

Name

Sir John d'Oyley, Knt, ^[1]

D'Oyly or Doiley is an English-language surname. It originates from the Norman French name d'Ouilly, from the place-name Ouilly in Calvados, Lower Normandy, France. ^[2]

Birth

John was born about 1320.

Estates

• Ronton, Staffordshire
• Warnham, Sussex
• Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire
• Whatton, Leicestershire ^[1]

Marriage

He married Margaret, daughter of Thomas de Tregoz, Knt, 2nd Lord Tregoz.^[1]

1341 Manor of Stoke Doyle

• John Doyley, possibly son of Thomas Doyley, and grandson of John Doyley who married Alice, (probably Alice de Stoke), held the manor in 1341 (fn. 24) and in 1353 he made a settlement on his son Thomas by his second wife Margery. (fn. 25) ^[3]
• The Manor of Stoke had been held by the Stoke family, then passed to Alice, the wife of John Doyley, who obtained in 1313, (fn. 21) from Robert son of John de Stoke, a quitclaim of his right in the manor. In the same year they settled it, with remainders to their son Thomas and the right heirs of Alice. (fn. 22) ^[3] It would appear that Alice, wife of John, was sister to Robert and daughter of John de Stoke.
• Thomas did homage to the abbot in 1322. (fn. 23) ^[3]

Death

John D'Oyly died about 1363.

Issue

1. Thomas, inherited Stoke Doiley from his father.This Thomas seems to have died young, and the manor went to Henry Doyley, probably his great-uncle, son of John Doyley and his wife Alice. (fn. 26) On his death after 1367 the manor went to John, son of Robert Knightley (d. c. 1326) and Alice his wife (d. 1349), who was sister of Henry Doyley. John Knightley presented to the church in 1369 and 1390. (fn. 27) ^[3]
2. Joan, born about 1344, married Thomas de Lewknor, Knt, of Broadhurst in Horsted Keynes.^[1] A settlement of Stoke Doyle was made in 1370 (fn. 28) on Joan, said to be daughter and heir of Sir John Doyley, and Thomas, son of Roger Lewkenor of Sussex, her husband, (fn. 29) and in 1391 a further settlement of the manor was made on Joan and her second husband, John Cobham, with a life interest to John Knightley. (fn. 30) ^[3]

Stoke Doyle and Succeeding Generations

1.1.1.2.1 Roger Lewknor

Roger Lewkenor apparently granted it to trustees, (fn. 31) one of whom, Nicholas Nymmes, did homage in 1401, (fn. 32) and the trustees still held it in 1412. (fn. 33) ^[3]

1.1.1.2.2.1 Thomas Lewknor

By 1428 the manor had reverted to Thomas Lewkenor, Joan's grandson, (fn. 34) whose son Roger presented to the church in 1453 and died in 1478, leaving a son and heir Thomas, (fn. 35) who forfeited his lands, probably as a Yorkist. ^[3]

Property

Blymhill Manor

"Sir John D'Oyly, Knt., succeeded to his mother's estates at Raunton and elsewhere, and dying about 7 Edw, II., left issue by his first wife, Joane, daughter of Sir Robert de Knightley, of Knightley, Knight, an elder son of Sir John D'Oyly, Knight, who was of Stoke, near Oundle, co. Northampton, in right of his wife Alice, daughter and heiress of John de Stoke, to whom he was married before December, 1299. He died about 1319, not long after his father, but at 50 years of age. He was succeeded at Raunton and Stoke D'Oyly by his eldest son, Sir Thomas D'Oyly, Knight, who had married, before the year 1313, Margaret, a near connection (and probably sister of Humphry Hastang, of Nassington, co. Northampton, by whom he had an elder son John. Sir Thomas died about 1336, and was probably slain in the Scotch wars in which he which he was serving, His son Sir John D'Oyly, Knight, succeeded to Raunton, and had issue by his wife Margaret, daughter and in her issue the heiress of Sir Thomas Tregoze, Knight of Goring, in Sussex, a son Sir Thomas D'Oyly, Knight, who succeeded his father about 1363 but died without issue in or before 1370, and a daughter Joane, who became sole heiress to her brother. Joane D'Oyly was twice married, first about 1363 to Sir Thomas Lewknor, Knight, Lord of Gretworth, co. Northampton, Bradhurst in Sussex, and South Mymmes, co. Middlesex, who died in 1375, set. 27, and by whom she had an elder son Roger Lewknor. The heiress of D'Oyly married secondly, in 1376, John Deiing, alias de Cobeham, of co. Kent, by whom she had no surviving issue, and died about 1394. In 1391 she and her husband John de Cobeham demised the manor of Raunton to her kinsman John de Knightley for term of his life, to be held by the yearly render of a rose ; with remainder to her issue by John de Cobeham, with remainder to her own right heirs."^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, 2013, III, 570
2. ↑ Wikipedia. D'Oyly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Oyly. Accessed July 2,2015
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6} British History Online: Parishes: Stoke Doyle. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol3/pp132-135. Accessed July 2, 2015
4. ↑ Collections for a history of Staffordshire, pg 384 [1]

Footnotes in British History Article

21. De Banco R. 201, m. 1d (3).

22. Feet of F. Northants, Hil. 6 Edw. II; Cott. MS. Cleop. C i, f. 144.

23. Ibid. Vesp. E xxi, f. 79b.

24. Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 14 Edw. III; Feud. Aids, iv, 448.

25. Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 26 Edw. III.

26. See V.C.H. Northants. Families, 174, where John de Knightley is described as his nephew, and Alice, John's mother, wife of Robert Knightley, is described as daughter of John Doyley in 1313.

27. List of Presentations, cit. Bridges, op. cit. ii, 377.

28. Baker, Northants. 508; Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 44 Edw. III.

29. Visit. of Sussex (Harl. Soc.), 25.

30. Feet of F. Northants. case 178, file 88, no. 136.

31. De Banco R. 572, m. 210.

32. Add. MS. (B.M.), 25288, f. 9.

33. Feud. Aids, vi, 500. Thomas Torp, another of the trustees, held a rent of £16 a year, and Robert Knyvet a rent of £7 as dower of his wife, the widow of Roger Lewkenor.