Thomas Wykes (chronicler)

Thomas Wykes (1222 — c. 1293), English chronicler, was a canon regular of Oseney Abbey, near Oxford.

He was the author of a chronicle extending from 1066 to 1289, which is printed among the monastic annals edited by Henry Richards Luard for the Rolls Series. He gives an account of the Second Barons' War from a royalist standpoint, and is a severe critic of Montfort's policy. His work regarding the reign of Edward I is especially useful. His chronicles are connected with the Oseney Annals, which are printed parallel with his work by Luard, but Wykes is an independent authority between 1258-78.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Wykes, Thomas". Encyclopædia Britannica. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
•  Tout, Thomas Frederick (1900). "Wykes, Thomas de". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• Kennedy, Edward Donald. "Wykes, Thomas (1222–1291x3)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30129. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• HR Luard's Annales monastici, vol. iv. (1869); and earlier edition in Thomas Gale's Scriptores quinque, pgs. 21-128