About Thomas Knyvet
Lived 1501 – 1605 (aged 103–104). Thomas Knyvet was an English politician.
Sir Thomas Knyvet (died 1605), of Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk and Stradbroke, Suffolk, was an English politician.
He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Knyvet of Ashwellthorpe, de jure 4th Baron Berners, by his wife by Muriel (d.1616), daughter of Sir Thomas Parry, was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge (1584) and studied law at the Middle Temple (1591). He was knighted in 1603.
The Royalist JP Thomas Knyvett, 5th Baron Berners Nathaniell Knyvett of Denver in Norfolk, second son. His will was proven 17 December 1659, he was then residing at Intwood. He married Margaret Vernatti of Delft in Holland, and had Nathaniell Knyvett of Denver in Norfolk, gentleman, will proven 15 Februar 1672/3, s.p.; Elizabeth, eldest daughter, who married John Ayde; Adriana; and Margaret who marriet Robert London of Aldeby Elizabeth Knyvett, who married Sir Thomas Pettus
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Who was Thomas Knyvet?
English politician, died 1605
When was Thomas Knyvet born?
Thomas Knyvet was born in 1501.
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Thomas Knyvet died on 1 September 1605.
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Thomas Knyvet was a politician.
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Thomas Knyvet was English.
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