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Francis Knollys was born 1511, the elder son of Sir Robert Knollys (d. 1520/1521) and Lettice Peniston (d. 1557/1558), daughter of Sir Thomas Peniston of Hawridge, Buckinghamshire, henchman to Henry VIII. [1] He appears to have received some education at Oxford. He married Catherine Carey, first cousin (as well as possible half-sister) of Queen ...
19 de abr. de 2024 · Sir Francis Knollys (born c. 1514—died July 19, 1596) was an English statesman, loyal supporter of Queen Elizabeth I of England, and guardian of Mary, Queen of Scots, during her early imprisonment in England. Knollys entered the service of Henry VIII before 1540, became a member of Parliament in 1542, and was knighted in 1547 while serving ...
Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys, GCB, GCVO, KCMG, ISO, PC (16 July 1837 – 15 August 1924) was a British courtier. He served as Private Secretary to the Sovereign from 1901 to 1913. Background and education [ edit ]
Knollys, Knolles or Knowles ( / noʊlz / ), the name of an English family descended from Sir Thomas Knollys (died 1435), Lord Mayor of London, possibly a kinsman of the celebrated general Sir Robert Knolles. The next distinguished member of the family was Sir Francis Knollys or Knowles (c. 1514–1596), English statesman, son of Sir Robert ...
Known as ‘the young Sir Francis’, Knollys was knighted by Leicester at Flushing and at the time of the Armada he was commissioner for musters and colonel of militia in Hertfordshire, where Leicester was lord lieutenant. In April 1589 Knollys pursued the Earl of Essex to Plymouth in a vain attempt to prevent him from joining the Portugal ...
At Banbury, Knollys’s relative Francis Walsingham, and then his servant Owen Brereton, were returned in 1563, but thenceforward he seems to have left the patronage there to the puritan, Anthony Cope.7. In Berkshire, Knollys, as constable of the castle, was a patron at Wallingford.
The elder Sir Francis Knollys proved extraordinarily long-lived, and consequently Knollys himself was denied local office until his father was in his dotage: the claim that he was a magistrate as early as 1627 is questionable.10 Both men were returned to Parliament for Reading in April 1640, and were subsequently elected to the Long Parliament later that year.
