Ealdgyth was the daughter of Wigod of Wallingford. Wigod (also spelt Wigot) was the 11th century Saxon Thegn or lord of the English town of Wallingford, and a kinsman of Edward Wallingford is a small Market town and Civil parish in the upper Thames Valley in Oxfordshire, England. She married Robert D'Oyly, a Norman nobleman, who became lord of Wallingford upon her father's death. For the nephew of this Robert D'Oyly see the article " Robert D'Oyly (Osney " The Normans were the people who gave their names to Normandy, a region in northern France. Wallingford is a small Market town and Civil parish in the upper Thames Valley in Oxfordshire, England.