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Sir John Wythe

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Smallburgh, Norfolk, England
Death: 1387 (12-21)
England
Immediate Family:

Son of Oliver Wythe and Wynesia Warham
Husband of Lady Sybil Wythe
Father of Lady Amy (Amice) Calthorpe and Emma Colvile

Occupation: Knight
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About Sir John Wythe

Wythe in Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk,… Volume III (1769), by Blomefield & Parkin

Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archæology and Natural History, Vol. X … Suffolk (1900)

Baronia Anglica Concentrata

The Visitation of Norfolk in the Year 1562, Vol. II (1895), by William Harvey; Brig. General Bulwer, ed.

A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, Vol. I.. London: Henry Colburn, 1847.

Parkin, Rev. Charles. 1810. An Essay toward a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, Vol XI. London: W. Bulmer and Co. pp. 15, 65-6, 87.

Parkin, Rev. Charles. 1807. An Essay toward a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, Vol VII. London: W. Bulmer and Co. p. 160.

Page, Augustine. A Supplement to the Suffolk Traveller or Topographical and Genealogical Collections Concerning that County. London: J. B. Nichols & Sons, 1844. pp. 779-80.

History add Antiquities of the County of Norfolk, Vol. IX. Norwich, M. Booth, 1781.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_and_Antiquities_of_the... p. 80.]
"Sir John Wythe, by his will, dated February 22, 1387, desires to be buried in the chancel of Beeston church; and left a daughter and heiress, Amy, or Anne, married to Sir John Calthorpe."

Copinger, Walter Arthur and Harold Bernard Copinger. (1909) The Manors of Suffolk: The Hundreds of Carlford and Colneis, Cosford and Hartismere. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Universtiy Press.
p. 209: "Sir Robert de Wachesham married Joan, daughter and heir of Simon Hetherset, justice 1314, and died in 1366, when the manor passed to his daughter and coheir, Winesia, or by some called Jane, married to Sir Oliver Wythe. From then it passed to Sir John Wythe, who dying in 1387, it went to his daughter and coheir Agnes, married to Sir William Calthorpe."
p. 236: "On Sir Oliver Calthope's death, the manor passed to his son and heir, Sir WIlliam Calthorpe, who married Eleanor, daughter of Sir John Mantly, and died in 1420. When the manor descended to his son and heir, Sir John Calthorpe, who married Amy, daughter and heir of SIr John Wythe, and on his death the manor passed to his son and heir, Sir WIlliam Calthorpe, who, dying in 1494, left by Elizabeth, his first wife, daughter of Reginald, Lord Grey of Ruthyn, a son, Sir John Calthorpe, who married Elizabeth,..."

Fox, Paul A. Great Cloister: A Lost Canterbury Tale. Summertown, Oxford, UK: Archaeopress Publishing, 2020. p. 221:
“Something happened before 1403 which changed [Sir John Colville's] life. Mysterious shining lights began to be seen during the night at the site of a ruined chapel standing by the sea close to his manor of Newton in Cambridgeshire, which quickly became a centre of pilgrimage. The experience seems to have had a profound effect on Sir John, who until that point was living in sin with a woman called Emma Gedney. In 1403, he obtained a papal bull from Pope Boniface IX so that he might marry Emma, there being some impediment of consanguinity. The mother of his children was actually from a different Emma, whom he married in 1406. She was Emma Wythe, the daughter of Sir John Wythe.

(Blomefield vol 9; 123-4; CPR 1405-8: 172, 388.)

The Ancestry of William Clopton of York County Virginia p. 49: "... step-sister, Anne Withe. She was the duaghter and co-heir of Sir John Wythe (Withe) of Smallbridge, Knt., and Sibilia, daughter of Sir Edmund St. Omer. Anne Withe, relict of SIr John Calthorpe, married secondly before 1224, Henry Inglose."

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Sir John Wythe's Timeline

1370
1370
Smallburgh, Norfolk, England
1387
1387
Age 17
England
1390
1390
Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England (United Kingdom)
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