WYATT - WIAT - WYOT - GUYOT -

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. Adam Wiat died at Southange in the township of Kexburgh, near Darton, just northeast of the town of Barnsley in Yorkshire. The name Guyot is derived from the old German "wido", meaning wood. 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. Sir George Wiatt 1554-1623 wrote a history of the Wiatt family. 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 the wife of Sir Thomas Wyatt, (the younger), 1521-1554. Jane Haute’s ancestor was Piers Fitzhaut who came with William the Conqueror to England. Extracts from Doomsday book 1086. (Yorkshire section) William Wyatt’s Arms (1558 1632) Appear on a memorial in St. Albans Church, Worcester. 1623.