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Sir Francis Knollys, 1 st Viscount Knollys (1837-1924), was Private Secretary and keeper of secrets for King Edward VII as Prince of Wales and monarch. A Sandhurst man, Knollys became Secretary to the Treasurer of the Prince of Wales in 1862. His father General William Knollys had been appointed by Queen Victoria as Comptroller and Treasurer of ...
16 de may. de 2024 · Katherine was the daughter of William Carey and Mary Boleyn and was born about 1524. In about 1540 she married Francis, elder son of Robert Knollys. Francis was a politician, master of the horse to Prince Edward and fought at the battle of Pinkie in 1547, when he was knighted. He was later a Privy Councillor and for a time guardian of Mary ...
Biography. A younger son of the treasurer of Elizabeth’s Household, Knollys was also a nephew of the queen through his maternal grandmother, a sister of Anne Boleyn. In 1586-7, he commanded the lifeguard of his brother-in-law Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, from whom (as governor-general of the Low Countries) he received his knighthood. 33 ...
Knollys' contribution reappeared as 'Speeches used in the Parliament by Sir Francis Knoles' in William Stoughton's 'Assertion for True and Christian Church Policie' (London, 1642). Throughout 1589 and 1590, Sir Francis was seeking, in correspondence with Burghley, to convince the latter of the impolicy of adopting Whitgift's theory of the divine right of bishops.
Francis Knollys, who entered the service of Henry VIII before 1540, became a member of parliament in 1542 and was knighted in 1547 while serving with the English army in Scotland. A strong and somewhat aggressive supporter of the reformed doctrines, he retired to Germany soon after Mary became queen, returning to England to become a privy ...
Biografia. Francis, nacque nel 1514 e studiò all' Università di Oxford. Enrico VIII estese a lui il favore che aveva dimostrato per suo padre Robert Knollys, assegnandogli la rendita delle proprietà paterne di Rotherfield Greys nel 1538. Questo fatto è attestato da atti ufficiali del Parlamento del Regno Unito del 1540–1541 e del 1545–6.
Sir Francis Knollys was fifth in decent from him. Henry VIII extended to Francis Knollys the favour that he had shown to his father and, in 1538, secured for him his the estate of Rotherfield Greys. Acts of Parliament in 1541 and in 1546 attested to this grant, in the second act making his wife joint-tenant with him.
