Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
Notes for Richard Wykes
NINEHEAD-FLORY, anciently NICHEHEDE,3128
Is a small parish in the extreme angle of this hundred towards the southwest, being sltuated betwixt Milverton and Wellington, from which last parish it is divided by the river Tone.
A mile eastward from the church is EAST-NINEHEAD, or NINEHEAD-MONKS, or MONKTON; and about half a mile north is the hamlet of UPCOT.
In this parish is also CHIPLEIGH-HOUSE, the ancient estate of the Warre family, now of Edward Clarke, esq.
The manor of Ninehead is included in the Conqueror's survey in the number of those lands which owed service to the Bishop of Winchester's court at Taunton, and has been always held under that great lordship. In the time of Henry I. and King Stephen, it was the possession of Ranalph de Fluri, who in allusion to his name bore on his seal a chevron between three crosses flory, which arms with a little variation of the crosses were afterwards used by the family of de Wyke, who it seems by some inter-marriage with the Floris became possessed of the manor of Ninehead. To the said Ranalph de Fluri succeeded Robert and Hugh de Fluri, both of whom were living in the time of Henry II. John de Wyke was lord of this manor in the time of King Edw. I. whom he attended in an expedition against the Scots, and was succeeded by another John de Wyke, and he by Philip de Wyke, who held this manor, and that of Withiel-Flory 13 Edw. II. He had two fons, Walter and John, of whom the latter inherited this manor, and was living in the time of Edw. III. having issue a son of the same name, who was resident at Ninehead 13 Ric. II. He married Catharine daughter of Sir William Bonville, knt. and relict of Sir John Cobham, knt. in whose right he had the manor of Yeovilton in this county for his life. He died 12 Henry IV. seized of that manor, and the manor of Ninehead-Flory, as also a moiety of the manor of Lillisdon, leaving Robert his son and heir then of the age of nineteen years. This Robert was father of John Wyke, who was of Ninehead in the time of Edw. IV. and died the 10th of that reign, seized of the manors of Ninehead-Flory, Withiel, Uphill. and Oldmixon, leaving Richard his brother and heir of the age of sixty years. Which Richard Wyke (or Wykes, as he is called in the inquisition) died 1 Ric. III. seized of the manors of Ninehead and Withiel-Flory, held by knight's service of the Bishop of Winchester; the fourth part of the manors of Uphill and Christon, held of Thomas lord Stanley, as of his manor of Blagdon; and four messuages, eighty acres of arable land, twenty acres of meadow, and forty acres of pasture in Oldmixon, held of John Arthur. John his son and heir was then of the age of forty years. The said John Wyke, son and heir of Richard, was a knight of the Bath at the marriage of Arthur son of Henry VII. with the Princess Catharine of Spain, and was succeeded in the possession of this manor by Richard Wyke, who held it with Withiel of the Bishop of Winchester, the latter end of the reign of Henry VII. He married Eleanor Hadley of Withycombe, by whom he had issue Richard Wyke of Ninehead, who married Margaret daughter of George Rolle, of Stevenstone in the county of Devon, esq, by whom he had a numerous offspring, and dying in 1590, was buried in the parish church of Ninehead.
Is a small parish in the extreme angle of this hundred towards the southwest, being sltuated betwixt Milverton and Wellington, from which last parish it is divided by the river Tone.
A mile eastward from the church is EAST-NINEHEAD, or NINEHEAD-MONKS, or MONKTON; and about half a mile north is the hamlet of UPCOT.
In this parish is also CHIPLEIGH-HOUSE, the ancient estate of the Warre family, now of Edward Clarke, esq.
The manor of Ninehead is included in the Conqueror's survey in the number of those lands which owed service to the Bishop of Winchester's court at Taunton, and has been always held under that great lordship. In the time of Henry I. and King Stephen, it was the possession of Ranalph de Fluri, who in allusion to his name bore on his seal a chevron between three crosses flory, which arms with a little variation of the crosses were afterwards used by the family of de Wyke, who it seems by some inter-marriage with the Floris became possessed of the manor of Ninehead. To the said Ranalph de Fluri succeeded Robert and Hugh de Fluri, both of whom were living in the time of Henry II. John de Wyke was lord of this manor in the time of King Edw. I. whom he attended in an expedition against the Scots, and was succeeded by another John de Wyke, and he by Philip de Wyke, who held this manor, and that of Withiel-Flory 13 Edw. II. He had two fons, Walter and John, of whom the latter inherited this manor, and was living in the time of Edw. III. having issue a son of the same name, who was resident at Ninehead 13 Ric. II. He married Catharine daughter of Sir William Bonville, knt. and relict of Sir John Cobham, knt. in whose right he had the manor of Yeovilton in this county for his life. He died 12 Henry IV. seized of that manor, and the manor of Ninehead-Flory, as also a moiety of the manor of Lillisdon, leaving Robert his son and heir then of the age of nineteen years. This Robert was father of John Wyke, who was of Ninehead in the time of Edw. IV. and died the 10th of that reign, seized of the manors of Ninehead-Flory, Withiel, Uphill. and Oldmixon, leaving Richard his brother and heir of the age of sixty years. Which Richard Wyke (or Wykes, as he is called in the inquisition) died 1 Ric. III. seized of the manors of Ninehead and Withiel-Flory, held by knight's service of the Bishop of Winchester; the fourth part of the manors of Uphill and Christon, held of Thomas lord Stanley, as of his manor of Blagdon; and four messuages, eighty acres of arable land, twenty acres of meadow, and forty acres of pasture in Oldmixon, held of John Arthur. John his son and heir was then of the age of forty years. The said John Wyke, son and heir of Richard, was a knight of the Bath at the marriage of Arthur son of Henry VII. with the Princess Catharine of Spain, and was succeeded in the possession of this manor by Richard Wyke, who held it with Withiel of the Bishop of Winchester, the latter end of the reign of Henry VII. He married Eleanor Hadley of Withycombe, by whom he had issue Richard Wyke of Ninehead, who married Margaret daughter of George Rolle, of Stevenstone in the county of Devon, esq, by whom he had a numerous offspring, and dying in 1590, was buried in the parish church of Ninehead.
Notes for Eleanor (Spouse 1)
Of Whitcombe.