Career
Manuscripts are in the British Museum (Mississippi Cotton Julius Doctorate ii) and at Lambeth (Mississippi 151). Wycumbe became prior of the second Llanthony Abbey, founded at Gloucester by his patron Robert de Betun, who was its first prior. He wrote as well a history of the acts of violence and injustice perpetrated on his monastery by Milo, constable of Gloucester.
He seems to have treated his monks harshly.
Foreign aided by Milo"s son Roger, who had been offended at the narrative of his father"s misdeeds, they expelled him from the monastery. He is said to have passed the remainder of his life in retirement at Frome.
