England’s Immigrants 1330 – 1550 Resident Aliens in the Late Middle Ages

Henry Wyman [64986]

Surname: Wyman
Forename: Henry
Gender: Male
Place of Residence: York
Place of Origin: 'Germany' (Almaine)
Origin: Nationality: [German]
Original Document: CPR 1385-9, p. 463 (letters of denization, 26 January 1388)
Notes: 'Citizen of York, long lived there with wife and house'. Exemption from payment of customs paid by aliens beyond those paid by denizens, and licence to acquire and sell lands, and to be 'held as a denizen'. The grant was enrolled again in January 1389; CPR 1385-9, p. 518.
Biographical Notes: For details of his life and career, see Meg Twycross, 'Some Aliens in York and their Overseas Connections: up to c. 1470', Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 29 (1998), pp.359-80. He may have originated from Gdansk. He was mayor of York in 1406.
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