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FRANCIS KNOLLYS

SIR FRANCIS KNOLLYS, K.B., K.G.

 

BIRTH:  c.1512, ?Rookes Manor, Hampshire
MARRIAGE:  26 Feb 1540; Hertfordshire
DEATH:  19 Jul 1596, ?Caversham, Berkshire
BURIAL: 18 Aug 1596, St Nicholas' Church, Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire

LINEAGE
 

PARENTS:
male

SIR ROBERT KNOLLYS

.

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d. 1521

female

LETTICE PENISTON

daughter of Sir Thomas Peniston of Bucks.

d.c.1558

SIBLINGS:
male

HENRY KNOLLYS

.
 

d.1583

female

MARY KNOLLYS

.
 

??

female

JANE KNOLLYS

Lady Wingfield
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??

(Appears to have had half-siblings from mother's second marriage to Sir Robert Lee d.1539)
SPOUSE:
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LADY CATHERINE CAREY

Dame Knollys

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c.1524-1569

CHILDREN:
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SIR HENRY KNOLLYS

of Kingsbury, Warwickshire

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1541-1582

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WILLIAM KNOLLYS

1st Earl of Banbury

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1545-1632

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ELIZABETH KNOLLYS

Lady Leighton

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1549-c.1605

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SIR FRANCIS KNOLLYS

"the younger"

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1553-1648

female

CATHERINE KNOLLYS

Baroness Offaly

[Fitzgerald/Boteler]
 

1559-1632

female

LADY MARY KNOLLYS

.

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1542-1593

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EDWARD KNOLLYS

.

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1546-1580

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SIR ROBERT KNOLLYS

.​

 

1550-1626

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ANNE KNOLLYS

Lady de la Warr

[West]

1555-1608

unknown

DUDLEY KNOLLYS

Believed to be boy, but now to have been girl

 

May 1562-Jun 1562

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LETTICE KNOLLYS

Countess of Essex
Countess of Leicester
[Devereux/Dudley/Blount]

1543-1634

female

MAUD KNOLLYS

.

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1548-? (died young)

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RICHARD KNOLLYS

.

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1552-1598

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SIR THOMAS KNOLLYS

.

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1558-1598

female

'GIRL' KNOLLYS

.

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1563-?

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