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1. "The Baronetage of England: Or The History of the English Baronets ...," by William Betham (1801), vol. 1, p. 430-31 (available online at <https://books.google.co.il/books?id=5ikwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA434&lpg=PA434&dq=richard+knatchbull+and+agnes+brent&source=bl&ots=cDQ6o8x10J&sig=CJ3xad5dxGmI18eS_qt4cgBKA6k&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=richard%20knatchbull%20and%20agnes%20brent&f=false> accessed 28 May 2017:
"Knatchbull, of Mersham Hatch, Kent. Created Baroncy August 4, 1641.
MERSHAM HATCH has been the principal seat of this family ever since the 2d year of Hen. VII. at which time it was purchased by Richard Knatchbll, of the executors of ___ Edwards. The house is in that deed, and in several of much older date, called sometimes Mersham Hatch, and sometimes Mersham le Hatche.
Mr. Philipot, in his "Villare Cantianum" has the following words concerning this family: (Dr. Harris's History of Kent.) "Knatchbll, extracted originally from Limne, where I find the name by deeds very ancient, and owners of a plentiful patrimony." John Knatchbull held much land there in the reign of Edw. III. From him descended
1. Thomas Knatchbull, who was the father of Thomas and William, who married ___, daughter of John Brockman.
2. Thomas, the elder son, married Eleanor ___, and from him descended another
3. Thomas, who was the father of
4. Richard Knatchbull, who lived in the time of Henry VII. and married Catharine, daughter of Sir Thomas Lewknor, Knt. by whom he had
5. Richard Knatchbull, who married Agnes, daughter of Robert Brent; by whom he had one son, William; and died in 1523.
6. William was the father of 1, John; 2, Thomas, who died in 1523; and one daughter, Sibyll.
7. John married Alice, daughter of ___ Fowle, of Tenterden: he died in 1540, and had issue, by the said Alice, 1, Richard; 2, John; 3, Reginald; and 4, William Knatchbull; and a daughter Mary, the wife of Thomas Finch. John, the second son, married ___, daughter of ___ Sheaf (sister to his brother Richard's wife) by whom he had issue two sons and one daughter; 1, John, who married Jane, sister of Sir Thomas Honeywood, of Evington; and secondly, Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Filmer, of East Sutton, both in Kent, Knts. and Richard, who married
Catharine, daughter of Thomas Boys of Hythe, in Kent, and secondly Anne, daughter of William Gibbons: Mary, was the wife of Thomas Scot, of Egreston, son of Sir Reginald Scot, of Scot's Hall, in Kent, Knt. Reginald, the third son, married Anne, daughter of William Crispe, Esq. lieutenant of Dover Castle, and brother of Sir Henry Crispe, of Quekes, in the Isle of Thanet, a person very eminent in the reign of Hen. VlII. by whom he had issue another Reginald (who was father of Mary Knatchbull, who was lady abbess of the convent of Benedictine Nuns,
at Ghent); and also one daughter, Anne, the wife of John Best, of Allington Castle. William, the fourth son, married Catharine, daughter of John Greene, by whom he had issue Richard, who married ___, daughter of George Goring; and also two daughters; Catharine, the wife of John Crispe, son and heir to the aforesaid William Crispe, Esq. lieutenant of Dover Castle; and Mary, of Timothy Johnson, of Fordwich..."
[Descendancy continues but it is not germane to my genealogy.]
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“THOMAS LEWKNOR, Knt., of Trotton, Barcombe, Bodiam, and Midhurst, Sussex, Tythrop (in Kingsey), Buckinghamshire, Lasham and Lockerley, Hampshire, Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire, Chislehampton, Oxfordshire, etc., Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, 1473-4, Knight of the Shire for Sussex, Constable of Bodiam Castle, Sussex, son and heir, born about 1438-48 (aged variously 30, 34, or 40 in 1478). He married (1st) before 1469 KATHERINE PELHAM, widow of John Bramshott (died 1468), of Bramshott and Gatcombe, Hampshire, Compton, Lordington (in Racton), and Terwick, Sussex, etc. [see BRAMSHOTT 11], and daughter of John Pelham, Knt., of Laughton, Bivelham, Burwash, Crowhurst, etc., Sussex, Chamberlain to Queen Katherine of France (wife of King Henry V of England), by his wife, Joan de Courcy. They had one son, Roger, Knt., and two daughters, Katherine (wife of Richard Knatchbull) and Sibyl. In 1474-5 he indentured himself to serve the king in the planned invasion of France. His wife, Katherine, died in 1481. He was knighted at the Coronation of King Richard III in 1483. He was a leader in the Duke of Buckingham's rising in Kent in Oct. 1483. He was attainted in Feb. 1484, and his lands forfeited. He was denounced as a rebel 24 May 1484. In 1484 he was pardoned and his lands restored. He married (2nd) before 3 Aug. 1486 JANE ___, widow of John Yonge, Knt. (died 1481), Alderman of London. SIR THOMAS LEWKNOR died 20 July 1484. In 1486 his widow, Jane, sold the manor of Honeylands (in Enfield), Middlesex to William Capel, Knt. In the period, 1493-1500, she sued her step-son, Roger Lewknor, Knt., and Richard Lewknor, of Sheffield, his uncle in Chancery regarding the detention of books called ‘liggers' and other books relating to the debts of the said Sir Thomas Lewknor. Jane was living in 1501.
Berry County Gens.: Sussex Fams. (1830): 130 (Lewknor ped.). Sussex Arch. Colls. 3 (1850): 89-102; 68 (1927): 279-281; 69 (1928): 53-70; 70 (1929): 1-7 (Pelham arms: Azure, three pelicans argent). Cooke & Mundy Vis. of Worcester 1569 (H.S.P. 27) (1888): 86-87 (Lewknor ped.: "Sr Thomas Leukenor. = (Katherine da. of Sir Jo. Pelham Kt.”) Lists of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 136. C.P.R. 1479-1485 (1901): 428, 435, 444, 575. English Rpts.: House of Lords 7 (1901): 895-924 (Camoys Peerage). VCH Hampshire 2 (1903): 492; 3 (1908): 165-170; 4 (1911): 81-82, 501; 5 (1912): 247. Benolte et al. Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 25-30 (Lewknor ped.: "Sr Thomas Lewknor knight was of Trotton in com. Sussex. = Katherin d. of Sr John Pelham knight."), 44-45 (Bramshott ped.: "John Bramshott the elder ob. 8 Ed. 4. = Katherin d. of Sr John Pelham ob. 20 E. 4. = Thomas Lewknor 2 husband."). List of Early Chancery Procs. 3 (PRO Lists and Indexes 20) (1906): 436. Whitehead Underchiff of the Isle of Wight, Past & Present (1911): 245. C.C.R. 1485-1494 (1914): 35. VCH Buckingham 4 (1927): 63-68. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 132-133. Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933): 148-158 (sub Lewknor). Wedgwood Hist. of Parl. 1 (1936): 542 (biog. of Thomas Lewknor). C.C.R. 1468-1476 (1953): 442. VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 28, 34-35, 92; 6(1) (1980): 215-219; 6(2) (1986): 15; 7 (1940): 81. CCR. 1485-1500 (1955): 35. VCH Oxford 7 (1962): 11-12. VCH Middlesex 5 (1976): 224-229, 282. National Archives, C 1/211/65; C 241/255/7; E 101/72/1/1026 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Child of Thomas Lewknor, Knt., by Katherine Pelham:
i. SIBYL LEWKNOR, married WILLIAM SCOTT, K.B., of Scott's Hall (in Smeeth), Kent [see SCOTT 12].”
SOURCES_MISC:
1. "The Baronetage of England: Or The History of the English Baronets ...," by William Betham (1801), vol. 1, p. 434 (available online at <https://books.google.co.il/books?id=5ikwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA434&lpg=PA434&dq=richard+knatchbull+and+agnes+brent&source=bl&ots=cDQ6o8x10J&sig=CJ3xad5dxGmI18eS_qt4cgBKA6k&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=richard%20knatchbull%20and%20agnes%20brent&f=false>)
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