Biography
Tyndale was born at some time in the period 1484–1496, possibly in one of the villages near Dursley, Gloucestershire. The Tyndale family also went by the name Hychyns (Hitchins), and it was as William Hychyns that Tyndale was enrolled at Magdalen College School, Oxford. Tyndale's family had migrated to Gloucestershire at some point in the fifteenth century – probably as a result of the Wars of the Roses. The family derived from Northumberland via East Anglia. Tyndale's uncle, Edward, was receiver to the lands of Lord Berkeley. Edward Smith is recorded in two genealogies as having been the brother of Sir William Tyndale, of Deane, Northumberland, and Hockwald, Norfolk, who was knighted at the marriage of Arthur, Prince of Wales to Katherine of Aragon. Tyndale's family was therefore derived from Baron Adam de Tyndale, a tenant-in-chief of Henry I (see Tyndall). William Tyndale's niece was Margaret Tyndale who married Rowland Taylor "The Martyr".
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