Notes for: Roger de Wycliffe

The name of this Wycliffe comes from a Wycliffe pedigree in The History of Yorkshire; Wapentake of Gilling West, by Marshall General Plantagenet Harrison (1885). I don't know where Harrison got this information. I can only assume it is guesswork on his part from looking at old records. Harrison's pedigree seems to be the only one that goes back this far; so I will go with it for now.

About Roger de Wycliffe, the pedigree says "Lord of Wycliffe in Richmondshire temp. Kings Henry I, and Stephen." No wife is mentioned and only one son is given: Robert de Wycliffe.

King Henry 1 reigned from 1100 to 1135 and Stephen from 1135 to 1154. Just to get some approximate dates for this Roger de Wycliffe, we could guess that he died before 1154 and was possibly born around 1110. Those are only guesses, but it may help us put things in order.