Notes for: Robert 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 this Robert, the pedigree says "Robert fil Robert de Wycliffe, Lord of Wycliffe, paid the subsidy 30 Edward I [abt 1302]. Certified by the Sheriff of Yorkshire as one of the lords of the townships of Wycliffe, Ulvington, Thorpe, and Mortham, 9 Edward II [abt 1316]. Was seized of lands in Newsham-in-Broghtonlithe and Hunton in right of his wife. Paid the subsidy on his lands 1 Edward III [abt 1327]. Was appointed conjointly with Thomas de Laton, to raise and arm all the male population in the wapentake of Gilling West in Richmondshire between the ages of sixteen and sixty years, to fight against Robert Brus and other rebels, the King's enemies, and to assemble at York on Sunday in the Feast of St. Luke the Evangelist next ensuing - commission dated 3rd October, 1 Edward III [1327]." He married "Johanna, daughter and heir of of William fil Galfred de Ellerton-in-Swaledale by Johanna his wife, daughter and co-heir of Roger de Neusum-in-Broghtonlith by Margery his wife, daughter and co-heir of Roger de Hunton."
Note: Newsham is a township in the parish of Kirkby Ravensworth. It has been called, at various times, Neusom or Neusome in Broghtonlithe.
It's a little difficult to figure out exactly what Workman is saying in his book (see p. 39), but he seems to say about this Robert Wycliffe that he was lord of the manor in Wycliffe in 1316. We do not know when this Robert died but it must have been before 1332-33 when Roger de Wycliffe paid the subsidy for Wycliffe.