Historical records matching Sir Richard Wiykes, Kt.
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About Sir Richard Wiykes, Kt.
- 'Devonshire wills: a collection of annotated testamentary abstracts, together with the family history and genealogy of many of the most ancient gentle houses of the west of England (1896)
- http://www.archive.org/details/devonshirewillsc00wortiala
- http://www.archive.org/stream/devonshirewillsc00wortiala#page/379/m...
- William Wykes and Katherine Burnell had four sons, viz., John, the eldest, who married into the Luttrell family-- the marriage settlement is dated in 1421-- and died childless; 'Richard Wykes of Cocktree and Northwyke, second son and heir to his brother' ; John, whom I suppose to have been the ancestor of Weekes of Honeychurch, and who will be referred to later on ; and Roger Wykes of Bindon, in the parish of Axmouth.
- This Roger Wykes, by grant of Nicholas Bach, dated 7th Henry IV., 1406, appears to have acquired Bindon, perhaps in marriage with the devisee's daughter; he resided there afterward, and abandoned his paternal for his maternal arms, and bore the coat of Burnell of Cocktree, arg., three barnacles, sab., differenced with a chevron, erm. By his marriage, as a widower, with Jane Bisset, he obtained a life interest in Radbours, County Dorset. He was buried in Trent St. Andrew's, near Sherborne. By his first wife he left a son, John, who married into the house
- http://www.archive.org/stream/devonshirewillsc00wortiala#page/380/m...
- of Camill of Shapwick, and had issue John, whose wife, Elizabeth Lyte, of Lytes-Cary, County Somerset, brought him two sons, John and Richard. The latter eventually succeeded as heir of entail to his nephew William Wykes, married a Somaster, and left four daughters, who married Giffard, Hays, Barry, and Erle, and amongst them and their descendants the property became divided. Mary Wykes, the youngest daughter, was the wife of Walter Erle, who purchased his brother-in-law Giffard's share, and made Bindon his residence. He was the grandfather of Sir Walter Erle, a distinguished Parliamentary general, whose grandson, General Erle, commanded the centre of the English army at the battle of Almanza, 1707. The latter's daughter, Frances, married Sir Edward Erle, Bart, of Maddington, Wiltshire, and their only child was the wife of Henry Drax, of Ellerton Abbey, Yorkshire, secretary to Frederick, Prince of Wales. Bindon was sold by her son Thomas Erle Drax, who married Mary, daughter of Lord St. John of Bletshoe. Two of the sisters of the last owner of Bindon were the Ladies Berkeley and Castlehaven, another was the wife of Sir William Hanham, Bart. The Charborough Park estate and other property, inherited from Wykes through Camill, descended to the late Mr. J. S. Sawbridge, M.P., who assumed the name of Drax by Royal licence, and his daughters and their issue still represent the family of Wykes of Bindon.
- ' To return to Northwyke. Richard Wyke, of Northwyke and Cocktree, brother of Roger of Bindon, was dead in 1476, by his wife, to whom he had been married at least thirty-eight years, and who was a daughter of John Avenel, of Blackpool, one of the direct representatives of the ancient Earls of Devon, of the house of Redvers, as I have shown elsewhere, he had three sons and a daughter, Margaret, who married one of the Whiddons of Chagford, and was the grandmother of the well-known Judge Whiddon, who died in 1575.
- ' It is to be feared that this Richard Wykes alienated much of the family property. It was about his time that the Battishills became settled at Westwyke, and it is certain, from an extant conveyance, that he sold a considerable portion of the manor .....
- http://www.archive.org/stream/devonshirewillsc00wortiala#page/381/m...
- ' Richard Wykes' son', William, is described as of Northwyke, in 1476; it is shown by an Inquisition, 15th Henry VIII., that his son of the same name duly succeeded to Northwyke ; the latter, by his wife Jane Prideaux of Thuborough, in the parish of Sutcombe (a baronetcy, recently extinct, was afterwards created in this family) had sons, John, Richard, William, and Thomas, and a daughter, Jane, the wife of John Baron.
- The eldest son, John, commences the pedigree of the family entered at the Heralds' Visitation of 1620, and is duly described as "John Wykes, of Northwyke, in com. Devon, Esq." His first wife, and the mother of his family, was Elizabeth, a co-heir of the Pokeswells of Criston, co. Somerset ; but he married, secondly, a kinswoman, Jane, daughter of Walter Wray, of Wray, in Thrushelton, and left her a widow, 10th August, 1545.
- His son and heir, John Wykes, of Northwyke, was "aged 20 years and more in 1545." He married Mary, daughter of Sir Roger Gifford, Knight, of Brightleigh, a direct ancestor of the present Lord Chancellor, died at the end of October, 1591, and was buried in South Tawton church on the following first of November. He was evidently the "Warrior Wykes" of the local tradition already mentioned. His fine specimen of an Elizabethan tomb may be seen in the north, or "Wyke's aisle," of the parish church, and supports his full-length effigy clad in the half armour and enormous ruff of the period.
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Sir Richard Wiykes, Kt.'s Timeline
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1397
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Northwyke, Devon, England
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| 1434 |
1434
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Honeychurch, Devonshire, Northwyke, England (United Kingdom)
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1436
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Northwyke, Devonshire, England (United Kingdom)
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1438
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Northwyke, Devonshire, England (United Kingdom)
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1462
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Bindon, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)
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1476
Age 79
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Cocktree, Devon, England
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