Husband: Roger Wycliffe    
            Born: abt 1290             in prob Yorkshire Co., England  1
            Died: 1346 - 1362          2
          Buried:                      in Wycliffe Church, County Yorkshire (Durham now), England  
          Father: Robert de Wycliffe   (1265 - 1327) 
          Mother: Johanna de Ellerton 
Notes 
            Wife: Catherine __________     
         Married: 1319                  
            Died: aft Aug 1362          3
          Buried:                      in Wycliffe Church, County Yorkshire (Durham now), England  
          Father:
          Mother:
     + M Child 1: Roger Wycliffe      
            Born: abt 1320             in prob Yorkshire Co., England  
            Died: aft 1356              
Notes 
       M Child 2: John Wycliffe      
            Born: abt 1321             in Spresswell, near Wycliffe-on-Tees, North Riding, County Yorkshire, England  4,5,6
            Died: Dec 31 1384          in Lutterworth, Leicestershire Co., England  7
          Buried: abt Jan  1 1385      in Lutterworth Churchyard, Leicestershire Co., England  
          Buried: 1428                 in River Swift, Lutterworth, Leicestershire Co., England  
Notes 
       M Child 3: William Wycliffe      
            Born: abt 1324              8
            Died: Aug  2 1362 - Oct  7 1369 
            Wife: Frances Bellasis  
Notes 
       M Child 4: Robert Wycliffe      
            Born: abt 1335              9
            Died: 1423                  
Notes 

Sources:
(1) This date "about 1290" is only a guess. I have seen no source for this, but it gives me an idea of when, more or less, 
this Roger might have been born. 
(2) One unsourced article I read said Roger Wycliffe died in 1353. That is possible, but I wish I knew what that article's 
source was. And Geni.com seems to have studied this issue. They said he died before 1362 which is when his wife is 
declared the widow of Roger Wycliffe. 
(3) John Wyclif : Last of the schoolmen and first of the English reformers, by Lewis Sergeant (1902): Says Catherine was 
still alive in 1369 but no source given. The last reference for her seems to be 1362 when she presented Robert de 
Wycliffe to the rectory of the church in Wycliffe in August 1362. 
(4) No source for his birth date seems to exist. The date is arrived at by looking at when he entered and completed his 
studies at Oxford. That involves some guesswork, but most authors seem to agree on about 1320 - 1324. I'll go with 1322, 
but that is just an estimate. 
(5) John Wycliffe, patriot and reformer : "The morning star of the reformation" / a biography by John Laird Wilson (1884), 
pp. 18-19. Laird conjectures that Wycliffe must have been nearer to 70 when he died meaning he was born 1320-1321. 
Wycliffe's first biographer, Lewis, conjectured that Wycliffe was about 60 when he died in 1384, but that is only a 
guess. 
(6) John Leland (father of English local history) says Wycliffe was born at "Ypreswell/Spreswell, a poore village a good 
myle (mile) from Richmont (Richmond)." That could well be a now non-existant village about a mile east of 
Wycliffe-on-Tees. John Laird (1884) has a good and convincing discussion on this (pp. 13-15). A similar discussion is 
written by Robert Vaughn in Athenaeum (No. 1747, 1861, p. 529). 
(7) A priest (maybe a Richard Harm) serving with John Wycliffe says he had a stroke while listening to mass on Dec. 28, 1384 
and then died on Dec. 31, 1384. This info came from a manuscript which has since 
burned. 
(8) This date "about 1324" is only a guess. I have seen no source for this, but it gives me an idea of when, more or less, 
this William might have been born. 
(9) This date "about 1335" is only a guess. I have seen no source for this, but it gives me an idea of when, more or less, 
this Robert might have been born. 

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