William Gyse (1514 - 1574)

Born 1514 in Elmore, Gloucestershire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Rotsy) Gyse — married 1540 in England

Descendants

Died 7 Sep 1574 at about age 60 in Elmore, Gloucestershire, England

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Biography

William was the son of John Gyse and Tacy Grey. He was said to be 49 in 1563 when his brother Anselm died, pointing to a birth year of about 1514. He may have been born in Elmore, Gloucestershire, where his father had his main residence, but his father also had lands elsewhere.^[1][2][3][4]

Before 1540 William married Mary Rotsey, daughter of Richard Rotsey and Margaret Walshe.^[1][2][4][5] They had four children:

• John^[1][2][3][4]
• Elizabeth^[1][2][4][4]
• Bridget^[1][2]
• Cecily,^[1][2] spelt Secely in the Harleian Society edition of Gloucester Visitations^[4]

Mary was buried at Elmore, Gloucestershire on 24 November 1558.^[1][2]

William's older brother Anselm died, without surviving issue, in 1563 and William was found to be his heir. He inherited lands at Elmore and Brockworth, Gloucestershire.^[1][2][3]

William died on 7 September 1574 at Elmore, where he was buried.^[1][2][3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. II, p. 379, HAVILAND 14, Google Books
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. III, p. 268, HAVILAND 20
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} John Maclean. Elmore and the Family of Guise, in 'Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society', Vol. 3, 1879, pp. 61-62, PDF, accessed 28 April 2022
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5} John Maclean and W C Heane (eds.). The visitation of the county of Gloucester, taken in the year 1623, by Henry Chitty and John Phillipot as deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux king of arms with pedigrees from the Heralds' Visitations of 1569 and 1582-3, and sundry miscellaneous pedigrees, Harleian Society, 1885, pp. 72-73, Internet Archive
5. ↑ W P W Phillimore 9ed.). The Visitation of the County of Worcester made in the year 1569 with other Pedigrees relating to that County from Richard Mundy's Collection, Harleian Society, 1888, p. 112, Internet Archive

• Weis, Frederick Lewis. The Magna Carta Sureties, 1215, 5th edition, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999, p. 65, line 45/13

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was developed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 28 April 2022 and was reviewed the same day by Thiessen-117.

William Gyse/Guise is named in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestors, brothers William Torrey and Samuel Torrey, to Magna Carta Surety Baron Saher de Quincy (vol. II, pages 376-380 HAVILAND) that was badged by the Magna Carta Project in May 2022. He also appears in another trail, identified by the Project in 2015, from the Torreys to surety baron John FitzRobert. That trail needs further development against the Project's checklist. See these trails in the Magna Carta Trails section of William Torrey's profile.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".