Thomas Knyvett, 4th Baron Berners
Thomas Knyvett (or Knyvet), de jure 4th Baron Berners (1539–c. 1616), was High Sheriff of Norfolk from 1579.
Thomas Knyvett was the first son of John Knyvett (1510–1561[1]) and Agnes, daughter of Sir John Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire. A native of Ashwellthorpe in Norfolk, Knyvett married Muriel Parry, daughter of Sir Thomas Parry, Comptroller of the Household to Queen Elizabeth I.
He inherited the Ashwellthorpe estates from his paternal grandmother, (née Bourchier), de jure 3rd Baroness Berners (daughter and heiress of John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners), on her death in 1561/2, along with rights to the title Baron Berners. He was knighted in 1578 and created Lord High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1579.[2]
He failed to formally claim the title Baron Berners until 1616, when the office of the Earl Marshall certified his "right and title to the Barony of Berners", but he died shortly thereafter, before the new king James I could confirm the title.[2][3]
He was buried at Ashwellthorpe on 9 February 1616/7.[4]
Children[]
His daughter Abigail Knyvett married Sir Edmund Moundeford of Mundford and Hockwold, Norfolk, the grandson of Francis Mountford,[5] as his second wife. From his first marriage her husband had Sir Edmund Moundeford (1596 – May 1643), who left much of his inheritance to his half-sister, Abigail's daughter and Thomas Knyvett's granddaughter Elizabeth.
References[]
- ^ "Sir Thomas Knyvett - I1248 - Individual Information - PhpGedView". Stanford.edu. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Christie's (1999), Sale 6133, Lot 2, English School, circa 1565, Portrait of Sir Thomas Knyvet (c.1539-1617)". Retrieved 7 July 2012.
- ^ Lee, Sidney (1886). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 6. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bradley, Emily Tennyson (1892). "Knyvet, Edmund". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Rye, Walter; Hervey, William; Cooke, Clarenceux; Raven, John. The visitacion [i.e., visitation] of Norfolk, made and taken by William Hervey, Clarencieux King of Arms, anno 1563, enlarged with another visitacion [sic] made by Clarenceux Cook : with many other descents, and also the vissitation [sic] made. Family History Library.
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