'Knollys1'
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links to: Lead / LetterFamilies covered: Knollys of Rotherfield Greys
'Knollys1'Index
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Families covered:
Knollys of Rotherfield Greys
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| Thomas Knollys, Mayor of London (a 1400) | |||||||||||||||
| TCP identifies the progenitor of this family as this Thomas who was Lord Mayor of London 1399-1400 and 1410-1411. BE1883 mentions a Sir Robert Knollys who died in 1407 but it is not clear how that Robert fitted into this family. | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | ?? Knollys | ||||||||||||||
| TCP (Banbury) reports that the Sir Francis who married Mary (Catherine) Cary was 5th in descent from the above Lord Mayor Thomas. The intermediary generations below are as reported by 'Tudor' which, on the assumption that Thomas was not a young man when the following Richard was born, appears to miss out one generation as above. 'Tudor' continues with ... | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Richard Knollys (b 1414) | ||||||||||||||
| i. | Robert Knollys (b 1435) | ||||||||||||||
| a. | Robert Knollys of Rotherfield Greys (b 1481, d after 11.1520) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Troutbeck (dau of Sir John Troutbeck of Dunham) name found on other web sites | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Sir Francis Knollys of Rotherfield Greys | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary or Catherine Cary (d 15.08.1568, dau of William Carey) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Sir Henry Knollys of Kingsbury | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret Cave (d 1606, dau of Sir Ambrose Cave) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Elizabeth Knollys (b c1579) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Henry Willoughby, Bart of Risley (b c1579, d 20.11.1649) | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Lettice Knollys (d 1655) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (before 19.06.1602) William Paget, 4th Lord of Beaudesert (b 1572, d 29.08.1629) | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | William Knollys of Rotherfield Greys, Viscount Wallingford, 1st Earl of Banbury (b c1547, d 25.05.1632) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Dorothy Braye (d 31.10.1605, dau of Sir Edmund Braye, 1st Lord) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (1605) Elizabeth Howard (bpt 11.08.1586, d 17.04.1658, dau of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk) | |||||||||||||||
| Elizabeth had 2 sons during her marriage to Earl William but they were not recognised by him as they were by Edward Vaux, 4th Lord of Harrowden, whom Elizabeth later married. The sons, who are shown under Edward Vaux with continuation on 'Knollys2', took the name Knollys and claimed the Earldom of Banbury, a claim repeated by their successors for several generations. The matter was not finally resolved until 1813 when the House of Lords rejected the claim. | |||||||||||||||
| (C) | Sir Thomas Knollys (youngest son) probably the Thomas who was father of ... | ||||||||||||||
| (i) | Elizabeth (or Lettice) Knollys | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Rowland Rugeley of Dunton (d 1629) | |||||||||||||||
| (D) | Elizabeth Knollys | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Thomas Leighton of Feckenham, Governor of Jersey | |||||||||||||||
| (E) | Lettice Knollys (b 1539/40, d 25.12.1634) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (b c1553, d 22.09.1576) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (21.09.1578) Sir Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (b 24.06.1532/3, d 04.09.1588) | |||||||||||||||
| m3. (before 08.1589) Sir Christopher Blount (d 18.03.1600/1) | |||||||||||||||
| (F) | Anne Knollys | ||||||||||||||
| m. (19.11.1571) Thomas West, 2nd Lord De La Warr (b c1556, d 24.03.1601-2) | |||||||||||||||
| (G) | Catherine Knollys (bur 20.12.1632) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (10.1578) Gerald FitzGerald, Lord Offaly (b 28.12.1559, dvp 06.1580) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Sir Phillip Boteler of Watton Woodhall (d 01.1591/2) | |||||||||||||||
| (H)+ | other issue - Edward, Sir Robert, Richard, Sir Francis, Cecily | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | Joan Knollys | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Charles Wingfield of Kimbolton Castle (b 1513, d 24.05.1540) | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | Elizabeth Knollys | ||||||||||||||
| m. Richard Fortescue | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Margaret Knollys (b 1432) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Henry Belknap | |||||||||||||||
| The following connection was kindly brought to our attention by a site visitor (RS, 09.08.05). | |||||||||||||||
| m. Jane apparently mother also of Mayor Thomas's heir | |||||||||||||||
| 2. | Margaret Knollys (b c1390) | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Chicheley (chamberlain of London) | |||||||||||||||
Main sources: 'Tudor',
TCP (Banbury), BE1883 (Knollys)
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