William Knyvett (died 1515)

Roger Virgoe writes: In 1482 an inquest was held on the body of Elizabeth Knyvett, spinster, of Buckenham Castle, who had died in the Marshalsea Prison.

i.e. of natural causes, but it is difficult to understand how a powerful family like the Knyvetts could have allowed a daughter and sister to be imprisoned: it must surely have been a serious matter.

[8] As executors Knyvett appointed his son, Edward, together with Lord Fitzwalter, Sir Thomas Wyndham, the lawyer, Francis Moundford, and his servants, Richard Banyard and John Kensey.

At New Buckenham, in 1888, the following inscription was found on a brass, loose in the Church Chest:[4]To the memory of Alice, wife of William Knyvet, Esq., dau.

Charles was a squire of the body at Henry VII’s funeral and was a soldier at Calais from 1512 to 1514 but thereafter disappears from View.

for twelve years to pay for her apparel and her children, because her husband ‘by his negligence and misordrely lyving is brought in great daunger and poverte so that my seid daughter lyveth a pore lyff’.