Richard Knightley, of Gnosall

Sir Richard Knightley

• BIRTH 1364 Gnosall, Stafford Borough, Staffordshire, England
• DEATH 1415 (aged 50–51) Gnosall, Stafford Borough, Staffordshire, England
• BURIAL St. Lawrence Churchyard Gnosall, Stafford Borough, Staffordshire, England
• MEMORIAL ID 153072015
• Parents John Knightley unknown–1413 and Elizabeth de Burgh 1340–1416
• Spouse Joan Gifford Knightley 1368 – unknown
• Siblings Juliane Knightley Alice Knightley Edmund Knightley 1368–1416 John Knightley 1369–1416 Robert Knightley 1370 – unknown

Children

1. Margaret Knightley 1380–1441. Wife of Thomas Purefoy.
2. Richard Knightley 1390–1442. Husband of Elizabeth Purefoy.
3. John Knightley 1393–1423.
4. Maud Knightley 1400- . Wife of William Humfrey.

brief biography and family

Richard Knightley, son of John Knightley and Elizabeth de Burgh, born in 1364 in Gnosall, Stafford, England. Richard had a wife named Joan Giffard, daughter of John Giffard of Chillington.

Father of Richard Knightley MP (d 1442). Brother of John Knightley MP (d 1416), who was son of John Knightley MP & Elizabeth de Burgh, and who married Joan Thornbury.

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Knightley-5

"His second son John Knightley seems to have been the only man of the line hitherto of any real distinction. A lawyer of some eminence he is made justiciary of Chester after the death of Hotspur at Shrewsbury fight in 1403, and although by reason of his humble rank he is soon to cede this high office to the Lord Talbot, he goes on with the exercise of jurisdiction as deputy to that lord. He married a knight's daughter, Joan Thornbury, widow of William Peyto of Chesterton in Warwick, of whose lands he enjoyed the custody, and after the justiciary's death she marries for a third husband Sir Robert Corbet of Hadley. But his only son by this lady dies young, and for the line of Knightley we turn to his elder brother Richard of Gnosall, who prospers as we may imagine beside his brother's prosperity and leaves by his wife Joan Giffard a son Richard Knightley of Gnosall, who adds Fawsley to his Staffordshire manors of Burgh Hall and Cowley and dies in 1443, first founder of the long line of Knightley of Fawsley."[1]

comments

Surname has also been reported to be de Knightley.

Date and place of death have also been (erroneously?) reported to be 1416 in Staffordshire, England <unattested>.

The Visitation of Essex, page 66

The Visitation of Warwickshire, page 399

sources

• WikiTree contributors, "Richard (Knightley) de Knightley (1364-)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Knightley-5 : accessed 02 October 2024). cites
  • 1. The Ancestor; a quarterly review of county and family history, heraldry and antiquities, pg 5 < Archive.Org >
• https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/k...
• https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/k...
• https://digginroots.com/getperson.php?personID=I2343&tree=bilsbarro...
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Knightley-5
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153072015/richard_knightley
• http://www.stirnet.co.uk/genie/data/british/kk/knightley1.php#con4