Sir John de Wysham

• THE LIFE OF SIR JOHN DE WYSHAM
• OF CLIFTON ON TEME WORCESTER
• BY REV. R G GRIFFITHS VICAR CLIFTON ON TEME 1929"
• The early de wysham's were living in WYESHAM, WALES, IN MONMOUTH,and parts of forest of dean Gloucestershire,and in 1280 Ralph de wysham,and his wife Emilia moved from Wyesham to Woodmanton Clifton on Teme.
• Sir Ralph de Wysham built his home in Woodmanton,however it is a recorded historical fact that Sir Jjohn de Wysham moved to the forest of dean ,and took up a job on Christmas day 1310 as constable of St Briavels Castle in the forest of dean Gloucestershire by doing so he returned to his ancestral home of Wyesham 6-miles from st Briavels. On 3-June-1317 Sir John de wysham was granted the KING'S FISH-POOL ,and 200 acres at Noxon forest of dean ( increased to 280 acres in 1321) Sir John de Wysham left his job at St Briavels Castle in 1318 so he lived in forest of dean Gloucestershire from 1310 to 1318. Also his son John de Wysham inherited the land at Noxon.

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• Other Holt Pedigree & Family Trees
• The earliest known person the lineage traces back to was a man named Hamo I, Viscount of Alet, France who was born between 963-10 23 AD. The following is a pedigree from him:
• Caradoc (or Caragod) de la Boussac (born in Boussac, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France in 1035 AD)
• Baderon Lord of Monmouth (born in Dol, Bretagne, France in 1060 AD)
• William FitzBaderon, Baron of Monmouth (born in Monmouthshire, Wales around 1087 AD)
• Fitzwilliam Baron of Monmouth Baderon (born in Monmouthshire, Wales in 1100 AD)
• Gilbert FitzBaderon, Lord of Monmouth (born between 1105-1163 AD)
• John FitzGilbert, Baron of Monmouth (born in Monmouthshire, around 1182 AD)
• Richard, Lord of Wyesham (born in Monmouth Castle, Wales around 1223 AD)
• Sir Ralph de Wysham (born in Wyesham Village, England in 1260 AD)'
• Sir John de Wysham (born in 1288 AD) 'John de Wysham, Baron of Clifton (born in Woodmanton in 1320 AD')'
• Sir Richard de Wysham (born in 1350 AD). His son, Richard Holt, also known as Wysham Holt was born in Holt, Worcestershire, England in 1370. He married Cristine Coldrey and had a son with her named Richard. This son Richard was born around 1420. He married Joan Collingbourne (Darrell) and had two issue: Christian (Berkeley) and Elizabeth (Pownde).
• Reference

https://coadb.com/surnames/holt-arms.html

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• Sir John de Wysham did for a few year;s at least live in the Forest of Dean he was constable for

ST BRIAVELS CASTLE IN FOREST OF DEAN ,and he was granted the king's fishpool ,and 280 acres of land in NOXON forest of dean,also his son john de wysham inherited the land at noxon.

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• Page 2 Survey for Sir John de Wysham
• Page 2 Survey taken by NASH IN LATE 1700’s and was obtained from Herefordshire/Worcestershire county records office. These document are authentic as it was among sir john de wysham woodmanton manor papers, files:
• https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000050609032870?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000052902266965
• Birth for Sir John de Wysham
• 5th May 1320
• Woodmanton, Clifton-upon-Teme, Worcestershire England:
• Christening For Sir John de Wysham
• 3 June 1320 Acton, Suffolk, England:
• Death for Sir John de Wysham
• 28 May 1389 • In Wolverton in Stoulton, Worcestershire, England
• Detail Land Grant Deed:
• Transcript John de Wysham, his son, granted to Dame Hawyisia his Mother, all his estate in Norfolk, Suffolk, Sussex, Surry, Kent, with this advowson, and those of and Sheldesey, Churchill in Worcestershire, in 1240, the manor and advowson were in tailed for want of issue of John de Wysham, on John, son of Sir Andrew de Burse and his heirs, remainder in fee to John de Wysham, who was Lord:
• Sir John de Wysham's mother is Hawise de Clifton she died in 1327:

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• The manor of CLAYTON WICKHAM [Wicham (xi cent.); Great Wykham (xvi cent.)] also belonged to Azor before the Conquest, and to the wife of William de Watevile in 1086, and was held of both of them by Alwin. (fn. 22) It was in 1565 held of the lords of the barony of Lewes by service of 1/10 of a knight's fee. (fn. 23)

'In the 14th century it was held by the family of Wysham. (fn. 24) In 1327 John de Wysham and Hawise his wife 'were possessed of land in Clayton; (fn. 25) in 1356 orders were given to distrain the heir of 'John Wysham for relief for half a fee in Wykham;' (fn. 26)' in 1398 Sir William Wysham' gave seisin of a manor of 'Wykham' to Robert Oxenbridge and others. (fn. 27) Nothing further, however, is known of it until John Culpeper died seised of it in 1565, leaving it to his son Thomas, (fn. 28) who was succeeded in 1571 by his son Edward. (fn. 29) The latter died in 1630 (fn. 30) and his son Sir William Culpeper mortgaged it in 1647 to Walter Burrell. (fn. 31) In 1649 it was acquired from the two last-named by John Vinall, (fn. 32) and William Vinall was holding it in 1664. (fn. 33) In that family it remained until 1717, (fn. 34) when William Vinall sold the manor to John Bridger. (fn. 35) Wickham remained in the Bridger family (fn. 36) until the early 19th century, when it was sold by Harry Bridger to William J. Campion, about 1825, (fn. 37) and thereafter was united to the manor of Clayton (q.v.).

• Reference

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol7/pp140-144

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• Reference
• Collections Towards the History and Antiquities of the County of Herefordshire:
• This is a Pedigree for the Wysham Family in this book:
• https://books.google.com.au/books?id=q2c-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA195&lpg=PA19...

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• The visitation of Herefordshire made by Robert Cooke,
• This Book has a Pedigree for the de Wysham family:
• https://archive.org/stream/visitationofhere00cookrich#page/80/mode/2up
• Sir John de Wysham Knight had a free warren in Tedstone Delamere in the reign of Edward the lll
• Sir John de Wysham Knight was presented to the Church at Tedstone Delamere A.D 1351-1366
• STEWARDS OF THE HOUSEHOLD
• John Wysham 12 May, 1328-17 Feb. 1329. Zb. 115153. Zb. 116154. C.C.R. 1327-30, p. 521
• OFFICERS OF NORTH WALES
• John Wysham Appointed 23 Oct. 1330- C.P.R. 1330-34, p. 12 Oct. 1331. 10

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• Contents of Document:
• ELINGHAM-PARVA, LITTLE ELI NG HAM,

Joins to Rockland and E/iitgham-Magna, and was tlie lordship of Aluric, a freeman in the time of tlie Confessor. It was held at 2 carucates, and had 4 villeins, 2 burdars, 4 servants, and 20 acres of meadow belonging to it, 2 carucates being held in demean, and ano- ther might be added, it was very woody at that time, the mast or shack being sufficient to maintain lOOliogs; tiiere were 12 beasts, 24 hogs, 37 sheep, 34 goats, and 5 socmen that had each a cottage, and half an acre of land, and were obliged to look after the stock. The whole was valued at 4/. and was risen to 4/. Ss. at the survey. The town was about 3 miles long, and 3 broad, and paid 10(/. Dane- gelt out of every 20s. ta.\ed on the hundred ; the King first let it to Robert Bland, after the forfeiture of Earl Ralph, to whom he had given it, and at the survey Godric farmed it, and the Earl Warren had f) freemen here, who held 80 acres of land.* The first lord that I meet with since it came from the Crown, was Sir William Wisham, Knt. who had it in 1110; he granted an annuity of 10/. a year out of it to Tlio. Lallic and Katheriiie his wife, of whom it seems as if he had formerly purchased it; in 1218, IVill. de Mor- timer oi' Jlttltbiirgh held a fee here and in Tofts, of tlic Earl Warren, which shews us tiiat that Earl had a grant of it from the Crown; in 1227, Giles delVacheskam settled on Alan de Crepinges, the customs and services due for half a knight's fee here, to be held of Giles, at half a fee and x\.d.per annum. • Wanelunt Hund. Terre Regis • quam Godricus servat. (Domesd. fol. • 31, 32.) Elinghani tenuit T. R. E. • luricLis liber homo, ii. tar. terre, sem- • per iiii, villan, et ii bord. tunc. iiii. • serv. XX. acr. prati, semper ii. car. in • dominio et ii. car. et dim. homininn, • silva c. pore, et i. car. posset esse in • dominio. semper xii. animal, et xxiiii. • pore, et xxxvii. ov. xxxiiii. capr. et v. • soc. de ii. acr. et dim. tu :c et post vaUiit • iiii. libr modo, iii. libr. blancas et iii.

• sol. Huic nianerlo jacebant vi. soc. ea die • qna Radulliis funsfecit, qui reddebant • xvi. sol Roberto Blundo, et modo sunt • in :^allam teste HuiidreJo. Totiim lia- • bet i. leug. et dim. m longo, et in lato • et x.</ de Gelto. • In the account of the King's manor • of Sahan), these socmen are said to hold • 25 acres in Breccles, and that the stew- • ard of Saham sold them to Eudo, Earl • Ralph's man, who laid tliem to Eling- ham, and let them to Earl • Ralph, who held them at his forfeiture ; and upon • the King's seizing them, he let them to • Robert Blund, who during tlie time he • farmed Earl Ralph's land of the King, • received 105. id. a year from them, but • pon Godric's taking that farm, the • King laid them to his own mnnor of • Saham, and so Godric received nothing • from them. Sec this in Domesday, • printed under Preccles.

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