1. Adam Wiot \ Wiat \ Wyotte, 1320 - 1385.

Of Yorkshire, the first mentioned Wyatt in the Roger Twysden Roll. This is borne out by references in the pipe rolls, the assize Rolls and other ancient records of the 14th & 15th centuries.

Roger Twysden, ancestor of the present Earl of Romney and present Sir William Twysden. The pedigree of Henry Wyatt shows 5 generations back to Adam Wyot, who lived in the middle of the 14th Century (See Page 12). The early Wyots were settled near Tickhill in the West Riding of Yorkshire and in Beighton, Southwest of Sheffield but just over the border in Derbyshire. His maternal forbears, the Bayliffes, of whom two generations married Yorkshire Wyots, hailed from Barnsley, north of Sheffield, where they were small squires entitled to bear arms, as were the Wyots.

The Twysden Roll contained the pedigrees and the arms of Twysden, Wyatt, Scott (a member of which family had married a sister Anne Wyatt) as well as the Pedigree and arms of the family of Elizabeth Woodville, the Queen of Edward IV, whose Aunt (also named Elizabeth Woodville) had married in about 1430, William Haute, an ancestor of the wife of Sir Thomas Wyatt, the younger.

The Hautes of Bishopsbourne and Wavering Manor in Kent, who were neighbours of the Wyatts of Allington, were an important local family. When the Haute male line became extinct in 1530, Jane Haute, one of her father’s co-heiresses, took the Wavering manor to the Wyatts.

1530 Visitation makes no mention of pedigree. At the "Visitation" in 1619 the pedigree presented was that of Roger Twysden, as presented in 1578, who had married Ann, a daughter of Sir Thomas Wyatt, the younger, and included in the "Twysden Roll".

2. William Wyot 1350 - 1388

Of Colnbrook, married Lady Agnes de Norwood. She was the 5th wife and widow of Sir Roger de Norwood, and her maiden name was Lady Agnes de Cobham, 3rd daughter of Lord Cobham of Kent. 1359 was charged with transferring Sir John de Moyens (a prisoner) from Nottingham Castle to Cambridge Castle. Served under the Black Prince. 1368 Had a house at Charing, Westminster. Buried at Langley Marish, Near Windsor. 1371 & 1377 was witness to two deeds relates to Jewerby?, Nr Bradlington, Yorkshire.

3. Robert Wyot. 1385 - 1440. Married Jane Skipton

4. Geoffrey Wyot. 1410 - 1460 Married Anna

5. Richard Wiat. 1360 - 1427 (1431?)

Married Margaret Bailiffe. Owned land at Westminster and at Buscot in Berkshire. 1403 Member of Commission for Defence of the Realm in the Reign of Henry IV. 1406 Appointed to be the Seneschal and Controller of Winchester. 1410-26 Represented Buckinghamshire in Parliament at the time of Agincourt. 1410-24 High Sheriff of London. 1431 Buried at Langley Marish Church.

A summary of fines included in the past Court Rolls was made in 1640. Unfortunately all are now lost except one covering the period 1440 - 1441 which remained the property of the Earl of Shrewsbury. There are three documents referring to Richard Wyot:

Feudal aids for the Earl of Shrewsbury, referred to as ‘tenure in socage’. Assessment 2/- in £ or 10% in 1441 book.

‘Beatrice, Wife of Richard Cutbushe, to Richard Wyot and Margaret his wife, third part of a bovet(?) of land in Hallam. Fine 2s.

The same Beatrice gave the aforesaid Richard Wiat and his Wife Margaret the third part of a Bovet of Land in Hallam. Fine 18d.

6. Richard Wiat, d 1522

1494 Took his degree at Christ’s College, Oxford and received living of Headingham from brother Francis. 1495 Also received Livings of Romney (Kent), Wisbech (Cambridgeshire) and Bishop’s Wearmouth in Durham. 1501 Senior Proctor at Cambridge, Master of his College. Later became Precentor of York Cathedral. Although a priest, he bore the arms "Per fesse Azure and Gules, a barnacle Argent." From whom the Wyatts of Hurst Barton are descended.

7. William (of Essex) Wiat.

Came South from Yorkshire towards end of reign of Edward IV, as did Henry. In early days know as "of Barking", leased Manor of Bradwell-on-Sea. Also held benefactions of Felsted School and Manor of Sutton (Essex), which remained in the family until 1660.In 1525 he was collector of taxes for the King’s war against France.

8. Henry Wiat

Second son of Sir Henry Wiat. Married and lived in the country. He had a son Edward who lived in Essex and married a Miss Browne of Essex County. He died in 1544 and was buried at Tillingham where there is a monument brass to his memory.

9. Margaret Wiatt Daughter of Sir Henry Wiat and Anne Skinner

10. Anne Wiatt

Sister of Sir Thomas (the elder) Wiat. 1536- Accompanied Ann Boleyn to the scaffold on May 9th, and received from her "her little prayer book, set in gold enamelled black which she long preserved as a precious relic". (Ireland History). At her execution Ann Boleyn went to the block dressed in black damask and was said never to have looked more beautiful. One of her attendants was Anne Wyatt, to who she was seen to whisper something as she knelt. A message she sent earlier on her execution day no one dared to mention to the King. Ann’s message to Henry VIII through Anne Wyatt was "Commend me to his Majesty, and tell him he has ever been constant in his career of advancing me. From a private gentlewoman he made me a marchioness, from a marchioness a queen. And now he has left me no higher degree of honour, he gives me my innocence the crown of martyrdom." (N B Morrison)