John Wyot

Events 

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1410 (?).

Place of Death: unknown.

There is a brass monument dated 1410 in the church at Langley Marish, Berkshire. The evidence below shows that Richard seems to have taken control of his lands before then. Wyatt suggests that the monument is John’s and that he had retired to a religious life sometime before his death.

Relationships

Father: unknown.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Alice.

Alice is recorded as John’s wife in fines from 1359 in Middlesex and from 1375 in Berkshire.

Children: 

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Richard Wyot (died 1431) married Alice. Richard was a member of parliament for Buckinghamshire (and once for Middlesex) several times between 1407 and 1426.

Isabel Wyot married John Knyffe.

Evidence

from Feet of Fines (abstracted by Hardy and Page):

363. John Wyot, of Stanwell,[Middlesex] and John Baroun, of Puteworth, and Joan, his wife. Land in Stanwell. Anno 33. [1359]

367. John Wyot, and Alice, his wife, and William Danehurst, and Joan, his wife. Premises in Stanwell. Anno 33. [1359]

[Woodger (HoP) notes that property from the Stanwell John Wyot passed into Richard Wyot’s hands. In the inquisition post mortem of Brian Wyndesore taken at Stanwell in 1399 it is noted: (No place given.) Divers lands in the said county, held by Richard Wyot by the service of half a knight’s fee and 3s. 4d. every 24 weeks.]

from Feet of Fines (abstracted at Some Notes on Medieval Genealogy):

CP 25/1/20/99, number 6      Plea of Covenant

Westminster, Buckinghamshire. 6 October 1368.

John Wyot of Wyradesbury, querent, and William de Langford’ and Edith, his wife, deforciants.

1 messuage and 5 acres of land in Horton’.

William and Edith have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of John, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Edith to him and his heirs for ever.

John has given them 10 marks of silver.

CP 25/1/20/100, number 20.    Plea of Covenant 

Westminster, Buckinghamshire. 13 October 1371.

Richard Pope and Agnes, his wife, querents, and Thomas Wyot' and Joan, his wife, deforciants.

2 acres of land in Langele Mareys.

Thomas and Joan have acknowledged the land to be the right of Richard, and have remised and quitclaimed it from themselves and the heirs of Joan to Richard and Agnes and the heirs of Richard for ever.

Richard and Agnes have given them 20 shillings of silver.

CP 25/1/20/100, number 23.     Plea of Covenant

Westminster, Buckinghamshire. 13 October 1371

William Forde, clerk, John Wyot and William, the vicar of the church of Werardesby, querents, by John Rous, put in the place of William Forde, and Thomas Wyot and Joan, his wife, deforciants.

1 messuage, 50 acres of land, 8 acres of meadow and 2 acres of wood in Horton' and Langele Mareys.

Thomas and Joan have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of William the vicar, as those which the same William, William Forde and John have of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Joan to William, John and William and the heirs of William the vicar for ever.

William, John and William have given them 100 marks of silver.

CP 25/1/21/102, number 16.   Plea of Covenant

Westminster, Buckinghamshire. 24 June 1375.

Thomas Peyuere, John Roulond', Richard Freman, chaplain, and William Belyeter, querents, and John Wake and Alice, his wife, deforciants.

3 messuages and 8 acres of land in Bukyngham and Bourton'.

John Wake and Alice have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Thomas, and have granted for themselves and the heirs of Alice that 1 messuage - which John Wyot', millward, and Alice, his wife, and Joan, daughter of the same John and Alice, held for their lives - and that [1] messuage - which Thomas Cheyne and Katherine, his wife, and Joan, daughter of the same Thomas and Katherine, held for their lives - and that 1 messuage - which Philip Coteler and Joan, his wife, held for their lives - and that 4 acres of land - which Roger Stokker held for life - and that 2 acres of land - which Thomas Coueley held for life - and also that 2 acres of land - which William Palmer held for life - of the inheritance of Alice, the wife of John Wake, in the aforesaid vills on the day the agreement was made, and which after the decease of John Wyot' and Alice, his wife, and Joan, Thomas Cheyne and Katherine and Joan, Philip and Joan, Roger, Thomas Coueley and William Palmer ought to revert to John Wake and Alice, his wife, and the heirs of Alice - after the decease of [the same persons] shall remain to Thomas Peyuere, John Roulond', Richard and William Belyeter and the heirs of Thomas, to hold of the chief lords for ever.

Thomas, John Roulond', Richard and William Belyeter have given them 20 marks of silver.

In the Buckinghamshire Poll Tax Records of 1377-9, John Wyot and Thomas Wyot are listed as Probi Homines for Langley/Wraysbury. 

from the Calendar of Fine Rolls:

John Wyot was a collector of taxes in Buckinghamshire in 1383, 1385, and 1388. 

[1399, Nov. 18, Westminster]

Commitment to Philip le Vache, ‘chivaler,’--by mainprise of Richard Wyot of the county of Buckingham and William Beteley of the county of Kent,-- of the keeping of the manor of Langele Marreys, co. Buckingham…

from Gyll:

In 1404 John Wyot was collated to Horton Rectory…

from A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds:

Berkshire [1404]

C. 955. Grant by John Mene and Joan his wife to Richard Wyot, John Wyot, John Halle, of Colbrook, Thomas Copmanford, and John Scot, of Langele, to the use of Thomas atte "Watere, cousin and heir of Walter Cateway, of all their estate in the manors of Mychelscourt, Paynelscourt and Snoweswykes, a meadow called 'Denkeney,' and 10l. yearly rent issuing out of the manor of Paynelscourt, together with all other lands, &c., in Burwardescote, with the advowson of the church there. 1 May, 5 Henry IV. Fragment of seal.

Berkshire [1404]

C. 866. Letters of attorney from Richard Wyot, John Wyot, John Halle, of Colbrok, Thomas Copmanforde, and John Scot, of Langele, authorising John Scot to receive seisin of the manors of Mychelscourt, Paynelscourt, and Snoweswyk, and a meadow called 'Pynkeneye,' together with 10l. yearly rent issuing out of the manor of Paynelscourt, with lands, &c., in Borewardescote, and the advowson of the church there. 1 May, 5 Henry IV. Four seals.

Berkshire [1404]

C. 825. Release by William Wylicotes to Richard Wyot, John Halle, Thomas Copmanford, and John Scot, of all his right in the manor called 'Michelles Court,' in Borewardescote (Buscot), and in a parcel of land called 'Snoweswyk,' and meadow called 'Denkeneye,' together with lands, &c., in Buscot aforesaid. Witnesses:—Philip la Vache, knight, and others (named). 8 July, 5 Henry IV. Seal.

Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire [1405]

C. 994. Release by Thomas atte Watre, son of Margaret, daughter of Walter Catewy, to Richard Wyot, John Wyot, John Halle, of Colbrok, John Scot, and Thomas Copmanford, of all his right in land, &c., in Collesborne, Elkston, Harcherstoke, and Meresplot, and also of all his right in the manors of Paynescourt, Michelscourt in Borewardescote and in the advowson of the church there, in lands at Buscott and elsewhere in the county of Berks; in lands, &c., which they hold in Kelmescote, and in a meadow called 'Denkeneye,' &c., also in the manor of Elvynden with lands, &c., in Abbotestoke, Goryng, and elsewhere in the county of Oxford, and in Stretele, Rumford, and Tylhurst in Berks. Witnesses:— Philip la Vache, knight, and others (named). 12 February, 6 Henry IV. Seal.

A brass monument in the church at Langley Marish:

Brasses: In chancel—S. of communion table, (1) to William Wyot (undated) and John Wyot, 1410, Latin inscription and indents of two shields

References

Abstracts of Feets of Fines in Some Notes on Medieval Genealogy

A Calendar To the Feet of Fines For London and Middlesex: Volume 1, Richard I - Richard III. (ed. W J Hardy and W Page) (London, 1892).

A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 1, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1890).

Gyll, Gordon Willoughby James. History of the Parish of Wraysbury, Ankerwycke Priory, and Magna Charta Island; with the History of Horton, and the Town of Colnbrook, Bucks. (1862). 

'Langley Marish', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire, Volume 1, South (London, 1912

'Parishes: Langley Marsh', in A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 3, (William Page ed.) (Victoria County History, 1925).

Moreton, Charles. “Richard Wyot (d. 1431)” in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1422-1461 (Linda Clark ed.) (University of Cambridge Press, 2020). 

Robert and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy, "Notes on John Wyot and Alice"

Wyatt, Stanley Charles. Cheneys and Wyatts. (1959). 

[formatting]