Thomas Knyffe

Events 

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: John Knyffe.

Lipscomb (3:238 fn) notes that this relationship is given in a Harleian manuscript which “seems to bear marks of authenticity”.

Mother: Isabel Wyot.

Wyatt (p. 76) notes that Isabel was the heir to her brother, Richard Wyot, the M.P., in 1431. I haven’t checked the Register of Henry Chichele yet, to verify this. The Knyffe-Wyot relationship is noted in many later pedigrees and pieces of heraldic glass.

Spouse: Margery Thorne.

This relationship is given in the Brudenell pedigree in the 1564 Visitation of Northamptonshire (p. 6).

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.

Evidence

from the Berkshire VCH (3: sub Upton-cum-Chalvey).

 The Prior of Merton and Andrew de Chanceus held a third of a knight's fee in Chalvey in 1302, and in 1346 the same land was held in chief by the prior and Nicholas Knife in the proportion of two parts to one.

The prior finally acquired the mesne lordship of the latter's land, as appears from a 16th-century survey, where the free tenants of Upton Manor include Thomas Bulstrode holding land in Chalvey, formerly belonging to Thomas Knife, for rent of 39s. 6d. 

References

Clark, Linda. “Richard Bulstrode (d. 1502)” in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1422-1461 (Linda Clark ed.) (University of Cambridge Press, 2020). 

Lipscomb, George. The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham (1847).

A History of the County of Buckingham Volume 3 (Victoria County Histories) (London, 1925). 

The Visitations of Northamptonshire made in 1564 and 1618-9, with Northamptonshire Pedigrees from various Harleian MSS. (ed. Walter C. Metcalfe) (London, 1887).

Wyatt, Stanley Charles. Cheneys and Wyatts. (1959).