[1] During the civil war known as the Anarchy, D'Oyly backed Henry I’s daughter, the Empress Matilda, in her struggle against her cousin, King Stephen.
In 1141, after escaping from Oxford, the Empress sought refuge in Wallingford.
[1] In around 1114, D'Oyly remarried to Brian Fitz Count.
[1] Matilda's seal is the earliest extant impression of a non-royal secular noblewoman’s seal, from a chater that was written between 1122 and 1147.
[2] The seal is currently held by the College of St George at Windsor Castle.