Nicholas Wykes (c. 1488 – 1558) was a Gloucestershire landowner and MP.[1]
He was the eldest son of Edmund Wykes of Dodington, Gloucestershire and Dursley, Gloucestershire and Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Norton of Bristol.[2] The family's estate was comparatively modest, but his father secured his marriage to Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Poyntz (died 1520) and Margaret, illegitimate daughter of Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers.[2] Through this link to Elizabeth of York, Wykes obtained a post as gentleman waiter to prince Henry, the short-lived son of Henry VIII.[3]
Wykes held a number of posts in the local administration of Bristol and Gloucestershire and twice served as High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.[1] He lived as Dodington, where Leland described him as having restored the medieval manor house with attractive buildings.[4] He was a knight of the shire for Gloucestershire in the parliament of April 1554.[1]
His will, written in 1556, names 4 sons and 3 married daughters.[5]
References edit
- ^ a b c "WYKES, Nicholas (by 1488-1558), of Dodington, Glos". Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ a b Barkly, H. (1885). "The Berkeleys of Dursley during the 13th and 14th Centuries". Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 9: 276.
- ^ "Letters & Papers of Henry VIII, Volume 1, February 1511". Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ Chandler, John (1998). John Leland's Itinerary. p. 182.
- ^ Brown, Frederick (1889). Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills. Vol. 3. p. 85.