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Persoonlijke gegevens Francis KNOLLYS 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1513 in Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire.Bronnen 1, 2
• Titel: Governor of Portsmouth
• Titel: Constable of Wallingford Castle
• Titel: Burgess of Horsham, Camelford & Arundel
• Titel: Treasurer of the Chamber & Household
• Woonachtig: Oxford, Oxfordshire.Bron 4
• Hij is overleden op 19 juli 1596 in Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, hij was toen 83 jaar oud.Bronnen 1, 2, 5
• Hij is begraven in Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire.Bron 1
• Een kind van Robert KNOLLYS en Lettice PENYSTON

Gezin van Francis KNOLLYS

Hij is getrouwd met Katherine CAREY.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1539 te Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, hij was toen 26 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Anne KNOLLYS  1554-1608 
2. Richard KNOLLYS  1548-1596
3. Robert KNOLLYS  1547-1626
4. Edward KNOLLYS  1546-1580
5. Cecily KNOLLYS  1556-????
6. Francis KNOLLYS  1552-1643
7. Thomas KNOLLYS  1550-1596
8. Elizabeth KNOLLYS  1558-???? 
9. Lettice KNOLLYS  1543-1634 
10. Mary KNOLLYS  1541-1593
11. Henry KNOLLYS  1542-1583 
12. William KNOLLYS  1544-1632 
13. Katherine KNOLLYS  1560-1632 

Notities over Francis KNOLLYS

Sir Francis Knollys of Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, KG (c. 1511 / c. 1514 - 19 July 1596) was a courtier in the service of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Elizabeth I, and was a Member of Parliament for a number of constituencies.

Francis Knollys was born 1511, the elder son of Sir Robert Knollys (d. 1520/1) and Lettice Peniston (d. 1557/8), daughter of Sir Thomas Peniston of Hawridge, Buckinghamshire, henchman to Henry VIII.

He appears to have received some education at Oxford. He married Catherine Carey. Henry VIII extended to him the favour that he had shown to his father, and secured to him in fee the estate of Rotherfield Greys in 1538. Acts of Parliament in 1540-41 and in 1545-46 attested this grant, making his wife in the second act joint tenant with him. At the same time Francis became one of the gentlemen-pensioners at court, and in 1539 attended Anne of Cleves on her arrival in England. In 1542 he entered the House of Commons for the first time as member for Horsham.

At the beginning of Edward VI's reign he accompanied the English army to Scotland, and was knighted by the commander-in-chief, the Duke of Somerset, at the camp at Roxburgh on 28 September 1547.

Knollys' strong Protestant convictions recommended him to the young king and to his sister the Princess Elizabeth, and he spent much time at court, taking a prominent part not only in tournaments there, but also in religious discussion. On 25 November 1551 he was present at Sir William Cecil's house, at a conference between several Catholics and Protestants respecting the corporeal presence in the Sacrament. About the same date he was granted the manors of Caversham in Oxfordshire (now Berkshire) and Cholsey in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). At the end of 1552 he visited Ireland on public business.

Knollys' domestic affairs at times caused him anxiety. In spite of his friendly relations with the Earl of Leicester, he did not approve the royal favourite's intrigues with his daughter, Lettice, widow of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, and he finally insisted on their marriage at Wanstead on 21 September 1578. The wayward temper of his grandson, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (son of his daughter Lettice by her first husband), was a source of trouble to him in his later years, and the queen seemed inclined to make him responsible for the youth's vagaries. Knollys was created KG in 1593 and died on 19 July 1596. He was buried at Rotherfield Greys, and an elaborate monument, with effigies of seven sons, six daughters, and his son William's wife, still stands in the church there.

He married Catherine Carey, the daughter of Sir William Carey of Aldenham and Mary Boleyn in Hertfordshire on 26 April 1540. Sir Francis and Lady Knollys had a total of 15 children:

Mary Knollys (c. 1541[4] - 1593). She married Edward Stalker.
Sir Henry Knollys (c. 1542 - 1583). He was a Member of Parliament representing Shoreham, Sussex in 1562, Reading, Berkshire (1563-1572) and then Oxfordshire. Esquire of the Body to Elizabeth I. He was married to Margaret Cave (1549-1600), daughter of Sir Ambrose Cave and Margaret Willington. Their daughter Lettice Knollys (1583-1655) married before 19 June 1602 William Paget, 4th Baron Paget.
Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex and of Leicester (8 November 1543 - 25 December 1634). She married first Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, secondly Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester and thirdly Sir Christopher Blount.
Sir William Knollys, 1st Earl of Banbury, (c. 1544 - 25 May 1632). Member of Parliament for Tregony and Oxfordshire. He was married first to Dorothy Bray, who was 20 years his senior; and secondly to Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk and his second wife Catherine Knyvett.
Edward Knollys (1546-1580). He was a member of Parliament for Oxford (1571-1575).
Sir Robert Knollys (1547 1619 or 1626). Member of Parliament representing Reading, Berkshire (1572-1589), Brecknockshire (1589-1604), Abingdon, Oxfordshire (1604, 1624-1625) and finally Berkshire again (1626). He married Catherine Vaughan, daughter of Sir Rowland Vaughan, of Porthamel.
Richard Knollys (1548[8] - 21 August 1596). Member of Parliament representing first Wallingford (1584) and then Northampton (1588). Married Joan Heigham, daughter of John Heigham, of Gifford's Hall, Wickhambrook, Suffolk.
Elizabeth Knollys (15 June 1549 - c.1605). She married Sir Thomas Leighton of Feckenham, Worcester, son of John Leighton of Watlesburgh and Joyce Sutton, in 1578. Her husband served as Governor of Jersey and Guernsey.
Maud Knollys (c.1550 - 155?/6?), died young.
Sir Thomas Knollys (1558 - 1596). Better known for service in the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648). Governor of Ostend in 1586. Married Odelia de Morana, daughter of John de Morada, Marquess of Bergen.
Sir Francis Knollys "the Younger" (c. 1552 - 1648). Privateer and admiral and Member of Parliament representing several constituencies from 1575 to his death in 1648. He married Lettice Barrett, daughter of John Barrett, of Hanham. Father-in-law of John Hampden.
Anne Knollys (19 July 1555 - 30 August 1608), who married Thomas West, 2nd Baron De La Warr, by whom she had six sons and eight daughters, including Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, after whom the state of Delaware is named.
Catherine Knollys (21 October 1559 - 20 December 1620). Married first in October 1578 Gerald FitzGerald, Baron Offaly (son of Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare and Mabel Browne) and secondly Sir Phillip Butler, of Watton Woodhall. She was the mother of Lettice Digby, 1st Baroness Offaly.
Cecily Knollys (c. 1560 - ?). No known descendants.
Dudley Knollys (1562 - 156?/157?), died young.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Knollys_(the_elder)

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