Notes for: William 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 William de Wycliffe, the pedigree says "paid the subsidy 30 Edward I [abt 1302]. Was summoned as a man-at-arms to the Great Council at Westminster, 20th May Edward, 17 Edward II [abt 1324]. Paid the subsidy 1 Edward III [abt 1327]."