John Knatchbull

Bef 1331 -

• Name	John Knatchbull
  Born	Bef 1331	of Lympne, Kent, England
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I5586	Petersen-de Lanskoy
  Last Modified	27 May 2021

  
  

  Children	1. Thomas Knatchbull,   b. Bef 1356, of Lympne, Kent, England
  Last Modified	28 May 2021
  Family ID	F2410	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  RESEARCH_NOTES: 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.]