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A1so try under the BBC/history/ William the Conqueror if you have the web - rea11y good artic1e



If you want more info or cant find it Pm me - a1so try The Bayeux Tapestry showing the story of the Battle of Hastings - was the story behind the Bayeux Tapestry (The Norman Invasion)





The Battle of Hastings was fought on October 14th 1066. It is the most famous battle in English history.



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THE FIRST NAME OF WYATT

The name Wyatt appears in the History of Wales as far back as 912 when there were two clans by that name; one know as the Black Wyatts and the other as the Red Wyatts .The name first appears in English History in 1273 when the Red Wyatts under a fealty grant from the English Crown built what was known as "Wyatt Hall" in Devonshire. The first Wyatt record in Scotland was Malcolm Wyatt at Anegos, who rendered homage to the King in 1296. A James Wyatt was Burgess of Arbroath in 1464. ( Reference: "By the name of Wyatt, Wyatt Laws 1968) The dissolution of the monasteries caused the destruction or loss of all their main records in 1530. They had been the accepted record keepers so we get a gap until the Parish Churches started keeping their records in about 1520, under Elizabeth’s Government instructions.

In the 12th century Wyatts sprang up from Guys all over England and had no genealogical kinship. Thus there is no genealogical reason to assume that one Wyatt family is necessarily akin to another. Another cause of the loss of family records occurred when families moved long distances. In our case this can now be seen to have been due to the move of:

a. The Henry Wiats from Yorkshire to Kent

b. The Hugh Wiats from Devonshire to Staffordshire.

EARLY ORIGINS OF THE WYATTS

Surnames are of late origin, there being hardly any in England of the pre-Norman Conquest days. The usual practice was to use the "son of " method.

Most surnames in England date only from the thirteenth-fourteenth century, and were derived from place names. The name Guyot, derived from the old German "wido", meaning wood, came to England in Norman times, where it flourished greatly and was the point of departure of many surnames such as Wyatt, Wyon, Guyon, Guise and Guy.





there is more of this historica1 info that I have on this name if you are interested



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here is the other bit of the previos notes - then I wi11 check ou the other stuff you asked......................

This became anglicised into Wiot, Wyot and finally Wyatt and first appears in the Pipe Rolls at the end of the 12th century. The earliest record is to a Wiotus de Colnbrook, alive in 1315 who held land at Langley Marish, (just east of Windsor and Eton)

Adelle Bartlett-Harper, in her work on the origins of the Wyatt family says that "Ancient English manuscripts state that the first Wyatt to come to England is said to have been Admiral Wyatt, or Guyot as the name was spelt in Normandy. Guyot had charge of the Norman fleet when William the Conqueror landed in 1066. He married one of the Conquerors daughters and along with others was awarded large estates, which were located in Yorkshire, near the ancient town of Southange. In time the name Guyot was anglicised to Wiot, then Wiat and finally to Wyatt, by Sir Francis Wyatt, while Governor of Virginia; this being one of the five spellings he used during his term of office 1621-29, when signing official documents.

There is definite evidence that the Wyatts owned land at Southange, (South Haigh, or Upper Haigh) in the township of Kexburgh, near Darton, "a trifle north-east of the town of Barnsley in Yorkshire". Haigh still exists and is shortly (1967) to become important as a motorway junction on the new length of the M1. This junction, fortunately, will not effect the Hall which is off the main road to the sound of the present hamlet of Haigh.

Sir George Wiatt (21) 1554-1623 wrote a history of the Wiatt family and he only takes it back to 1300. According to him the line of decent is:

1. Adam Wyote, (Wiat) 1320-1385

2. William Wyot 1350-1388

3. Robert Wyot 1383-1440

4. Geoffrey Wiat 1410-1460

5. Richard Wiat 1435-1475

6. Sir Henry Wiatt 1460-1537

Another claim to descent from Norman times is made through the ancestry of Jane Haute (18) the wife of Sir Thomas Wyatt, (the younger), 1521-1554, (17). Jane Haute’s ancestor was Piers Fitzhaut who came with William the Conqueror to England. See the notes under (18) on this lady.

According to Dr Arthur Adams Ph.D. "Living Descendants of the Blood Royal" and Wurtes "Magna Carta", vol: 8 pp 2669, "The descendants of Haute Wyatt can trace their ancestry back via Elizabeth Brooke, wife of Sir Thomas Wyatt (11), to Clovis, the first King of the Franks, born AD496. Through this line you will have Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Henry I, John, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II and Edward III. This claim traces the line from Clovis down to Edward III and then on to:

John of Gaunt 1340 - 1399. Married as 3rd wife Catherine Swynford, 1396, widow of Sir Hugh Swynford

Joan Beaufort d1440. 2nd wife of Sir Ralph Nevile 1346 - 1425

Sir Edward De Nevile, d 1476 Lord Abervergenny. Married by special dispensation 1448, Catherine Howard daughter of Sir Robert Howard and Margaret de Mobray.

Margaret Neville d. 1506. Married. John Brooke, 7th Lord Cobham.

Thomas Brooke. 8th Lord Cobham m. Dorothy Heydon, daughter of Sir Henry Heydon and his wife Anne Boleyn.

Elizabeth Brooke, 3rd daughter of Lord Cobham. m. Sir Thomas Wyatt (11) of Allington Castle.

There are also claims for decent from the following Magna Charta Barons:

William de Mowbray; Gilbert de Clare; Robert de Vere; Saire de Quincey; John Fitz Robert

HISTORIANS OF THE NORMAN PERIOD

FLORENCE OF WORCESTER

A monk of the immediate post Hastings generation. Primarily a compiler of existing works, but some of his observations usefully supplement the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

HENRY HUNTINGDON

Born about two decades after the Norman Conquest, and became Arch Deacon of the diocese of Lincoln. Wrote a colourful but often questionable history of England, at the bidding of his bishop: "Historia Angloram"

WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY

A younger contemporary of H of Huntingdon, and better historian. His work reflects the new cintinental influence of the Normans and was quickly accepted by a wide following: "Gesta Regum"

WILLIAM OF POITIERS

Norman chaplain of Duke William, he is best known for his valuable but eulogistic life of the Conqueror. He was also Archdeacon of Liseaux.

WILLIAM OF JUMIEGES

Also a contemporary of William the Conqueror.

ORDERIC VITALIS

Born in England on the morrow of the conquest and sent at the age of eleven to a Norman monastery. Orderic met many war veterans of the conquest period and shrewdly of their lives and times: "Historia Ecclesiastica"

THE LEGEND OF ADMIRAL GUYOT AND THE NORMAN INVASION 1066

Most reliable authorities of the Invasion

The Bayeux Tapestry - believed to have been worked in England near Canterbury, by order of Eude (Odo) Bishop of Bayeux, within 20 years of the events it describes. Probably made to hang in Canterbury Cathedral, consecrated in 1077. Stitched in 8 colours of thread on coarse canvas 231½ ft long, 19½ inches wide, depicts the whole story in remarkable detail. Shows 623 persons, 202 horses and mules, 55 dogs, 505 other animals, 37 buildings, 41 ships and 49 trees; 1512 objects. Is now exhibited in the old Bishop’s Palace at Bayeux.

William of Poitiers - who wrote: "Gesta Gukllelme Ducis Normanoram et Regis Anglorum" (The Acts of William Duke of Normandy and King of the English). Written shortly after 1071 by William of Poitiers, originally a soldier, became a priest acting as the Duke’s Chaplain during the invasion. His work is authoritative from the (naturally prejudiced). Norman point of view.

Historia Ecclesiastica Angliae Normaniae. (The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy) By Ordericus Vitalis, who wrote about 1140.

English Historical Documents (General Edition DC Douglas 1953) Contains relevant sections from: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Florence of Worcester, William of Jumieges, William of Poitiers, The Bayeux Tapestry, Ordericus Vitalis and William of Malmesbury.

THE CONQUEROR’S COMPANIONS - (From Conquest 1066, Furneux)

7-10 thousand men accompanied William across the channel on Sept 27th 1066, other came from Normandy afterwards. Several Normans are known to have been living in England before the Conquest

List of the Companions

1. 1066, William had a list of the principal men at Dives on August 12th before the embarkation. This establishes for certainty the names of 32 men, the names of another 300 rest on circumstantial evidence.

2. The Battle Abbey Roll 1086. May have been based on the list recorded at Dives and which was read out after the battle to ascertain who was alive. Placed in the keeping of the monks of Battle Abbey it disappeared in the 14th Century and is now only known in copies, the best being those of Holinshed and Leland. Battle Abbey was founded on the spot on the battlefield where Harold was slain, by Monks from Marmoutier to fulfil William’s promise, but was not completed till the next reign. Abbey was dissolved during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, (Deeds of Abbey now in Huntingdon Library, San Marino, California.) Rebuilt in 16th Century as a private dwelling, now houses a private school for girls.

3. The Dives Roll 1866 - compiled by a committee of French scholars, includes 485 names which were inscribed on the west wall of the church at Dives where William and his army heard mass before embarking.

4. The Falaise List 1931 - bronze tablet showing 315 names was placed in the Chapel of the Chateau at Falaise. The work of Pro: MJ Crispin, (Princeton University) and Leonce Macary, (College of Falaise). Commands greatest authority for presumption of names than those founded on direct evidence. Both 3 and 4 are based on recognised sources and the best respected copies of the Battle Abbey Roll.

5. In 1943 Professor D Douglas made a list of 32 names definitely deducted from the Bayeux Tapestry.

No one alive today can establish direct descent, by legal process, from a Companion of the Conqueror. Registration of Births did not become compulsory until 1533; up to then records are those based on ownership of land or summoning to military service.

William the Conqueror. Was the 5th in lineal succession from Rollo. Richard II. (of Normandy) died in 1026 left two sons. Richard, the elder, who succeeded him. Robert, the younger, Count of Hermois, who rebelled against his brother and established himself at Falaise, at 18. Robert later succeeded Richard, who did not marry. Robert took a mistress Arlette, daughter of Fulbert, Burgess of Falaise, a tanner. Arlette’s son William was born in 1027. She married Viscount of Contville to whom she bore 2 sons, (Conquerors half-brothers), Odo Bishop of Bayeux and Count of Mortain, his principle lieutenants in the invasion and great beneficiaries of the Conquest.

In 1051 William married Matilda, daughter of Baldwin, Count of Flanders and his wife Adele, sister of Henry of France. He had several children: Robert, Duke of Normandy, William II (of England), (Rufus), Henry 1, and Adela who married Stephen of Blois, and other daughters untraced. He is said to have 6 daughters (if Gundreda who married William Warrene) is included. "Mostly left no issue except Adela"

THE INVASION IN 1066

The Normans, unlike the Anglo Saxons had no Navy. Ships were specifically built and assembled at Dives. The Normans loaded 400 ships with horses, besides other ships with men and stores and sailed from St Valery on the evening of Sept 27th, disembarking the next morning at Pevensey. On Sept 8th the Fleet was transferred from Falaise to St Valery, in the Somme Estuary.

William embarked on his own ship, the "Mora", and a herald rode along the shore calling the command that the ships were to keep together, each was to bear a light and follow the huge lantern slung at the mast of the "Mora" (Wace). The ships halted and rested just before daylight to allow stragglers to catch up. Only 2 ships were lost. They sighted Pevensey at about 7 am Sept 28th.

The Daughters of William the Conqueror. According to DC Douglas. (William the Conqueror - 1964) quoting from Ordericus Vitalis:

1. Agatha. First betrothed to Harold of Wessex then Alphonse of Spain. 2. Adeliza. Took religious vows. 3. Cecily. Born before 1066 became Abbess of Holy Trinity Caen. Died 1127. 4. Adela, married in 1050 to Stephan, Count of Blois. Died 1137. 5. Constance. Married 1086 to Alan IV Count of Brittany. Died 1090. 6. Matilda. (is not mentioned by any of the Chroniclers)

Extracts from Doomsday book 1086. (Yorkshire section) From the Victoria County History, Yorkshire section.

----------- Land of Ilbert de Lacy ……………… In Creusford (Keresforth) and Bernslai (Barnsley) there is likewise soc belonging to Tateshalla (Tanshelf) of 5 caracutes of land for geld and 3 ploughs can be there. Now 1 villein is there in length and as much in breadth." - There is no reference at all to Guyot.

Pp119. The Wyatts of Little Canfield and Dunmow. (17th & 18th C)

Descended from the Wyatts of Bradwell and Tillingham. Arms in the church at Camfield - Gules on a fesse Or, with three boars head couped Argent between three lions rampant sable. These resemble arms of Kent family, subject solely to a transposition of the charges. (See Sir Thomas. Wyatt - 1503 - 1542)(15)

Pp 131. The Wyatts of Braunton (Devon).

Visitation of 1620 gives 4 generations commencing with John Wyatt of Braunton born about 1480-90. Gives arms as " Per fesse Gules and Azure a pair of barnacles Argent" These arms resemble those of the Wyatts of Yorkshire and Kent, which were "Parted per fesse Azure and Gules, a barnacle Argent". The only difference being a reversal of the tinctures.

The arms of the Wyatts of Bucks had other tinctures, they being " Per fesse sable and Argent, a horse barnacle of the second"

Pp 135. Memorial to Dame Anne Cullam. Wife of Sir Jasper Cullam in Hawsted Church in Suffolk. Was within a few months of 100 when she died in January 1757. Memorial shows the arms of Cullam and Wyatt, the latter being " Gules on a fesse Or, three lions rampant Sable between three boars heads erased Argent". Similar to Sir Henry Wyatt 1507-8 except that his boars heads were couped and not erased.

Pp 138 William Wyatt’s Arms (1558 1632) Appear on a memorial in St Albans Church, Worcester as: "Or on a fesse Gules between three boars head couped Sable, as many mullets Argent" with the motto "Endure and Hope". Mullets instead of Lions or pheons are rare in Wyatt arms though Roger Twysden in his roll dated 1578 does give Wyatt of Kent exactly similar arms as those borne by Wyatt of Worcester.

Pp 140 Wyatts of Tewkesbury (Gloucestershire) Visitation 1623. "Or on a fesse Gules between three boars heads erased close Sable as many mullets of the field"

EARLY REFERENCES TO WYATTS

Wiotus de Colnbrook Mentioned as holding land in 1315 in Langley Marish, Horton and Colnbrook.

John Wyot 1340 - 1410

Contemporary and friend of Geoffrey Chaucer, father of English poetry.

In 1366 he married Phillipa Roet, sister of Catherine Swinford (born Roet). The latter married John of Gaunt, from whom Edward IV, Richard III and Henry VIII are descended.

In 1377 he was commissioned to collect Poll tax for Richard II. 1383-88 he was the tax Commissioner for Buckingham . He spent the last years of his life as secular cleric of Horton rectory, (Bucks)

1410 was buried at Langley Marish.

William Wyot 1360 - 1427

Presumed son of William or John Wyot. (by Julian NO Brother see page 7)

1406 Empowered to raise a Levy of £600 in Kent.

1420 Commissioned by Henry IV to raise a loan in Buckinghamshire towards the cost of the war in France.

1427 Buried in Langley Marish Church.

Thomas Wyot

1403 Parson at Horton, Bucks.

1421 Rector of Eaton, exchanged for Dimchurch. His family arms: "Per fesse Azure and Gules, a horse barnacle, closed, in pale Argent."



Pp 69 Wiotus de Colnbrook - 1315 Held land in district bounded by Langley Marish,> Dac-het Horton and Colnbrook, just east of Windsor and Eaton (much nearer Slough). 15th Century Brass in Langley Marish Church (nr Slough Bucks):

"Here lie William Wyot and John his Kinsman which aforesaid John died on the feast of assumption of the Blessed Mary (15 August) in the year of our Lord 1410 on whose soul may God have mercy. Amen".





John Wyatt. 1780-1811 - Joined the Dragoons as Coronet 1799, transferred to the 34th Foot and as a Captain fought in the Peninsula Wars at the battle of Vimero (1808) Talavera (1809), under Wellington. Killed in action at battle of Albuera 1811.

Pp138. William Wyatt (1558 - 1632) - Worcester fined £10 in 1625 for refusing a knighthood on the occasion of the accession of Charles I. He had no son but a daughter who married a namesake. Daughter was Frances (born 1590) married Richard by whom she had a son Francis Wyatt, born 1632. William Wyatt's arms appear on a memorial in St Albans Church, Worcester. (see note on Wyatt arms).



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Eliza] Isabella Wyatt, née Caldwell (1848-1933) of Idaiyangudi, Tirunelveli, was the eldest daughter of Bishop Robert and Eliza Caldwell. Brought up at her fatherÕs mission station, spoke Tamil as a native, educated in England at St MaryÕs Hall, Brighon 1856-62. Returned to Idaiyangudi 1863 where she and her sister Sarah started working with their mother in the campaign to encourage female education. In 1868 Isabella married Rev Joseph Wyatt who had arrived as assistant to her father. She bore seven children and in due course took over the superintending of schools from her mother. When in 1879 her husband was appointed to Tiruchirappalli [ÔTrichyÕ] 200 miles to the north, she continued her work there. When he resigned from the SPG in 1896, Isabella had been working in mission schools for 25 years. They settled in England near Cambridge.

Husband: James WALLACE, Sr.

Birth: 1792/3, KY

Marriage: 19 Mar 1815, Christian Co., KY

Wife: Isabella WYATT

Birth: 1796/7, TN

Father: Thomas William WYATT

Mother: Mary NEEDHAM

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. (Son A) WALLACE, b. 1810-20

. (Son B) WALLACE, b. 1810-20

. (Daughter A) WALLACE, b. 1810-20

. William WALLACE, b. 1817/8, Christian [now Trigg] Co., KY

. Emily? WALLACE, b. 1822/3, Trigg Co., KY

. Thomas WALLACE, b. 1824-27, Trigg Co., KY

. Needham WALLACE, b. 1827/8, TN

. John WALLACE, b. 1831/2, TN

. Edward WALLACE, b. 1832/3, TN

. James WALLACE, Jr., b. 1834-37, TN

. Francis WALLACE, b. 1837/8, IL

. Minerva? WALLACE, b. 1839/40, IL

. Harriet WALLACE, b. 1841/2, IL

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ps cou1d fi11 me in with some dates for Isabe11a and a p1ace if you know

I have found 1ots of Isabe11as - so can you get back and I can he1p you further

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