Henry Knyvet (died 1547)

Sir Henry Knyvet of Charlton in Wiltshire and East Horsley in Surrey was a member of the Enlish gentry.

Early life and family

Knyvet was the son of Thomas Knyvett and Muriel Howard, the widow of John Grey, the second Viscount Lisle. Muriel Howard was the daughter of Thomas Howard, and Elizabeth Tilney, and through the Howard connection, Knyvett was related to many of the English nobility.

Knyvet's father died aboard the HMS Regent , which burst into flames, during the Battle of St. Mathieu in 1512, while his mother died in childbirth four months later. He and his siblings were brought up by their grandmother, Eleanor Knyvett. ^[1]

Knyvet's siblings were Edmund, Katherine, Ferdinand, and Anne. ^{[2] [ better source needed ]}

Career

Knyvet was knighted some time after 15 November 1538. ^{[3] [ better source needed ]}

Knyvet had lands in Surrey and was for several years a gentleman of the privy chamber, ambassador to Charles V in 1540–1541, in 1545 marshal of Hertford's army in Scotland, and in 1546, the year of his death, captain of the horsemen at Guisnes. ^{[4] [5]}

In 1542, Knyvet was under a cloud when he was recalled from the Emperor’s court and lingered at Orléans on his return from Spain until he knew what to expect. ^[6]

Knyvet was one of the party who received Anne of Cleves within a mile of Calais. ^{[7] [ non-primary source needed ]}

Marriage and children

Knyvet married Anne Pickering, the daughter and heiress of Christopher Pickering. ^{[2] [8]} Knyvett and Anne had six children:

• Henry (1537–1598) of Charlton Park, Wiltshire, English member of parliament. ^[4]
• Elizabeth
• Alice
• Katherine (1543–1622), who married Henry Paget, 2nd Baron Paget, and then Sir Edward Cary of Berkhamsted and Aldenham, Hertfordshire. ^{[9] [10] [11]} She was known as the "Baroness Paget Cary". ^[12]
• Thomas, a member of parliament who played a part in foiling the Gunpowder Plot ^[2]
• Margaret, who married Henry Vavasour of Tadcaster, Copmanthorpe, Yorkshire ^[13]

Death

Knyvet died perhaps around 1546. ^[14]

References

1. Gunn, S. J. "Knyvet, Sir Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15799.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. Burke, John (1841). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England. Scott, Webster & Geary. pp. 294–295.
3. Shaw, William Arthur; Burtchaell, George Dames (1906). The Knights of England. A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland. Robarts - University of Toronto. London Sherratt and Hughes. p. 50.
4. "Knyvet, Henry (c.1537-98), of Charlton, Wilts". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
5. Potter, David (ed.). "Henry VIII and Francis I: The Final Conflict, 1540–1547 (History of Warfare – Volume 66)". epdf.pub. p. 553. Retrieved 2023-11-02.
6. Potter, David (ed.). "Henry VIII and Francis I: The Final Conflict, 1540–1547 (History of Warfare – Volume 66)". epdf.pub. p. 44. Retrieved 2023-11-02.
7. "Henry VIII: January 1540, 1-10 | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. pp. 1–19. Retrieved 2023-11-02.
8. Clay, J. W. (John William) (1913). The extinct and dormant peerages of the northern counties of England [microform]. London, J. Nisbet & co., ltd. pp. 111–112.
9. Amy Kenny, "Katherine Knyvett Paget Cary", Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney, A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen (Routledge, 2017), p. 499.
10. Harvey, William; Marshall, George William (1897). The visitation of Wiltshire 1565. Exeter : William Pollard. pp. 62–63.
11. Flower, William (1881). The Visitations of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564. Harleian Society. p. 251.
12. Janet Arnold, Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd (Maney, 1988), p. 339.
13. May, Steven W. (2004). "Vavasour, Anne (fl. 1580–1621)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/68083 . Retrieved 12 July 2014.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
14. Hartley, T. E. (2018). "Knyvet, Sir Henry" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37642.(subscription or UK public library membership required)