The manor remained with his heirs, including his grandson of the same name whom King Stephen made 1st Earl of Essex in about 1140.
There is no known record to indicate whether the other fee passed to Eleanor's younger sister Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry Bolingbroke.
[3] At the time of the Hundred Rolls in 1279, Thame Abbey held five virgates of land at Wendlebury.
The abbey seems to have disposed of this land before 1317, as an inventory of its estates at that time makes no mention of Wendlebury.
Rewley Abbey was founded in 1281 and by 1293 held at Wendlebury eight virgates of arable land plus 20 acres (8 ha) of meadow.
[3] Rewley retained this minor estate until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th centuries, when it passed to Thomas Pope of Wroxton Abbey.
At the same time the architect John Oldrid Scott restored the remainder of the building,[4] renewing the roof and installing new seating.
St Giles' is now part of the Benefice of Akeman, along with the parishes of Bletchingdon, Chesterton, Hampton Gay, Kirtlington, Middleton Stoney and Weston-on-the-Green.
[3] An open field system of farming continued in the parish until 1801, when its common lands were enclosed by Act of Parliament.
This gave Dupuis more space in which to exercise improved farming techniques, including a seven-year crop rotation.