Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Thomas Thorne (?).
Mother: Jane, daughter of William Spelling (?).
These relationships are given in the Brudenell pedigree in the 1564 Visitation of Northamptonshire (p. 6), but may refer to a different family or be otherwise unreliable.
Spouse: Thomas Knyffe.
This relationship is given in the 1564 Visitation of Northamptonshire (p. 6), but may refer to a different family or be otherwise unreliable.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Richard Knyffe is said to have married Lettice Smart.
Commentary
I am not sure about the Thornes. The Brudenell pedigree in the 1564 Visitation of Northamptonshire (p. 6) shows that Agnes Bulstrode, the husband of William Brudenell and mother of Edmund Brudenell, was the daughter of Robert Bulstrode, son and heir of Richard Bulstrode and Alice his wife, daughter and heir of Thomas Knyffe and Margaret his wife, daughter and one of the heirs of Thomas Thorne and of Jane his wife, daughter and heir of William Spelling, gentleman.
Bulstrode pedigrees show Alice, the wife of Richard Bulstrode, as the daughter of Richard Knyffe of Chalvey. They also state that Alice was an heir of Thomas Thorne.
It is unclear to me to what extent these accounts contradict each other, or may be at least partly true.
Sir John Thorne held land at Chesham in 1279. A number of fines show that a Geoffrey de la Thorne aquired land at Chesham, Buckinghamshire in 1316, 1318, and 1328. Geoffrey had a daughter Felice who seems to have married John le Cok in about 1344. Geoffrey then disappears from the fines, replaced by his probable son Thomas atte Thorne and his wife Alice, who bought land in Chesham in 1350 and sold some land to Henry de Briselee in 1360. Thomas last appears in 1370, and Thomas’s son John atte Thorne and Joan his wife now appear in the records. They sold land in 1383 in Chesham and in Stone and Kimble. In 1396, they sell a messuage in Amersham. In 1398, John and Joan conveyed the manor of Chesham to Edmund Brudenell. In 1405, the business between Edmund and John and Joan concerning the manor of le Thornes in Chesham, Hawridge, and Bovington seems to have been completed, for which Edmund gave them 100 marks of silver. In 1410 John and Joan sell a messuage in Amersham.
References
Abstracts of Feet of Fines on Some Notes on Medieval Genealogy.
A History of the County of Buckingham Volume 3 (Victoria County Histories) (London, 1925).
Lipscomb, George. The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham (1847).
The Visitations of Northamptonshire made in 1564 and 1618-9, with Northamptonshire Pedigrees from various Harleian MSS. (ed. Walter C. Metcalfe) (London, 1887).