Wyhomarus ¹²

   Another name for Wyhomarus was Wymarus.

  General Notes:

Steward to 1st Earl of Richmond, Alan Rufus, born 1046

THE FAMILY OF CAVE.

We know, however, that a great part of the pedigree was recorded at Heralds' Visitations of Yorkshire and Leicestershire much before 1631. It is now to be seen in Burke's "Peerage" as the lineage Sir Miles Cave-Brown-Cave, Bart., but the statement given in some genealogies, that the elder brother of the founder, Wymarus de Cave, died without issue, does not seem justified by anything stated by Sir William Segar. On the contrary, Wymarus de Cave can scarely have been any other than the powerful steward of the still more powerful and wealthy, Alan, Earl of Brittany and Richmond. Wymar, or Wyamarus, held much land in the neighbourhood, and he is supposed to have been the founder of the Priory at Marryke, near Richmond, Yorkshire; at any rate he was a liberal donor to this and other religious houses. In the confirmation of one of these gifts, namely the township of Engelby, given to the Abbey of Jervaux, he is joined by his brother, Garnarus, or Jordon, who was a forefather of the Cave family.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation, Abt 1070. Steward 1st Earl of Richomnd