Robert de Wycliffe, Lord of Wycliffe

Little is known about the pedigree of Robert. He may have been a younger son of Roger and Katherine or possibly a grandson. I have listed him here as a son for convenience. He was both a lawyer and a priest.

From Workman, "John Wyclif, A Study of the English Medieval Church," p. 47-48, we have "In 1412 Robert Wyclif settled the manor and advowson of Wycliffe on himself with remainder first to Sir John Pykeworth, knight, and the children of Ellen, his late wife, and then to John, son of John de Ellerton and his heirs male who were to assume the cognomen of Wyclif and bear the ancient arms. Probably John Ellerton thus became the John de Wyclif who was lord of the manor in 1423 and 1428 and from whom the future lords until Marmaduke Tunstall descended. (Hence future Wyclifs quartered the three harts' heads of the shield of Ellerton.) If so, Robert Wyclif was the last blood descendant of the Wyclifs of whom we have any knowledge, the further lords of Wyclif being of a new stock."