Sir Henry Knyvet (1510–1547) of Charlton in Wiltshire and East Horsley in Surrey, Master of the Jewel Office.
[6] He was the son of Sir Thomas Knyvett and Muriel Howard, the widow of John Grey, 2nd Viscount Lisle, by whom she was the mother of Elizabeth Grey, Viscountess Lisle, one-time betrothed of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and the wife of Henry Courtenay.
[7] Knyvet's elder siblings were: Edmund (1508–1551); Katherine who married firstly Sir William Fermor (d. 1558), Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1540[8] and son of Sir Henry Fermor of East Barsham in Norfolk and Margaret, through whom he was the half-brother of Elizabeth Wood, Lady Boleyn and uncle of John Astley,[9] and secondly Nicholas Mynne, Esquire;[10][11] Ferdinand;[12] and Anne,[7] lady-in-waiting to Katherine of Aragon, who married firstly Thomas Thursby[11] of Ashwicken[13] (d. 1543) and secondly Henry Spelman[14] (the son of Sir John Spelman and the father of Sir Henry Spelman and of Erasmus Spelman, whose son Henry went to Virginia).
Anne Pickering's paternal grandparents were James Pickering[16] (d. 1498), of Killington, Westmoreland, whose mother Margaret Lascelles brought the manor of Escrick,[17] and Anne Moresby (d. 1523), the daughter and heiress of Sir Christopher Moresby, of Scaleby, who remarried to Sir Humphrey Coningsby.
[19] Knyvett had six children: After Knyvet's death, his widow was robbed of £500 worth of silver, by Francis Keilway, who had married her daughter Anne Weston, and an accomplice.