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Thomas Lewknor

Male 1448 - 1484  (~ 46 years)


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  • Name Thomas Lewknor 
    Born From 1438 to 1448  of, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 20 Jul 1484  of Trotton, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5587  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Roger Lewknor,   b. From 1412 to 1422, of Broadhurst, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Aug 1478, Trotton, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 66 years) 
    Mother Eleanor Camoys,   b. Abt 1408, of Camoys, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1445, of, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 37 years) 
    Family ID F2413  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Katherine Pelham,   b. of Laughton, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1481, of Trotton, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Bef 1469  of, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Katherine Lewknor,   b. Abt 1450, of Trotton, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Sibyl Lewknor,   b. of Trotton, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. From 4 Aug 1528 to 14 Jan 1529, Brabourne, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Roger Lewknor,   b. of Trotton, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. From 15 Jan 1543 to 13 Apr 1543, Trotton, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2407  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Jane,   d. Aft 1501, of, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married From 1481 to 1484 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2412  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.]

      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].”

      3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “ROGER LEWKNOR, Knt., of Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes), Dedisham (in Slinfold), Iteford, and Selmeston, Sussex, South Mimms, Middlesex, Whatton, Leicestershire, Stoke Doyle and Greatworth, Northamptonshire, etc., Knight of the Shire for Sussex, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, 1439-40, 1467-8, Keeper of the temporalities of the Archbishopric of Canterbury, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Trotton, Bevendean (in Falmer), Broadwater, and Camoys Court (in Barcombe), Sussex, Tythrop (in Kingsey), Buckinghamshire, Lasham, Hampshire, etc., son and heir by his father's 1st marriage, born c.1412-22 (aged 30 [and more] in 1452, 50 [and more] in 1471). He married (1st) before 1426 ELEANOR CAMOYS, daughter of Richard Camoys, Knt., of Camoys (in Great Milton), Oxfordshire, by Joan, daughter of Richard Poynings, Knt., 3rd Lord Poynings [see CAMOYS 9 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1408 (aged 18 in 1426). They had seven sons, Thomas, Knt., Roger the elder (1st of name), William, Edward, Richard, John, and John, and four daughters, Margaret (or Margery), Mary, Amy, and Elizabeth. In 1426 she was co-heiress to her brother, Hugh Camoys, by which she inherited the manors of Tythrop (in Kingsey), Buckinghamshire, Lasham, Hampshire, Tansor, Northamptonshire, and Barcombe and Broadwater, Sussex, and a moiety of the manors of Camoys (in Great Stukeley), Huntingdonshire, Baldon St. Lawrence (in Toot Balden), Chiselhampton, and Wheatley in Cuddesdon), Oxfordshire, and Bevendean (in Falmer) and Trotton, Sussex. In 1428 he and his wife, Eleanor, and her sister, Margaret, were plaintiffs in a suit for the manors of Didling, Elsted, and Trotton, Sussex. In 1432 he and Ralph Radmyld disputed the right of presentation to the church of Broadwater, Sussex; the claim of Roger's presentee was confirmed. His wife, Eleanor, was living in 1433, and allegedly died in 1445. He and Ralph Radmyll, Esq., presented to the churches of of Trotton, Sussex, 1439, 1442, and Itchingfield, Sussex, 1440, and to the chantry of St. Mary in Broadwater, Sussex, 1439. He presented to the churches of Broadwater, Sussex, 1445; Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire, 1453 and 1461; and Greatworth, Northamptonshire, 1467, 1468, 1477. He married (2nd) before 1468-9 MARY WEST, daughter of Reynold West, Knt., 6th Lord la Warre, 3rd Lord West, by his 1st wife, Margaret, daughter of Robert Thorley, Esq., Treasurer of Calais [see WEST 10 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Reynold, Roger, Esq., and George. In 1468-9 he and his wife, Mary, conveyed lands in South Mimms, Middlesex to Richard Carpenter. In 1471 he was heir to his uncle, Richard Dallingridge, Esq., of Lymbourne, Hampshire, by which he inherited Bodiam Castle, Iford, Iden, Raddingdean, and Bolebrook (in Hartfield), Sussex, and Lockerlev, Hampshire. In the period, 1471-2, John Wode sued Roger Lewknor, Knt., executor of Richard Dalyngrigge, in Chancery regarding the reversion of the castle and manor of Bodiham, Sussex. In 1472 Richard Adam sued him for land in Torryng, Sussex. In 1473 he and his son, Thomas, Esq., and Richard Lewknor, Esq., of Brambletye, Sussex, owed a debt of £450 to Thomas Frowick, Esq. His wife, Mary, died 24 July 1473. In the period, 1475-80, or 1483-85, as “Roger Lewkenore, knight, son of Philippa, sister of Richard Dalyngrygge, late of Lymbourne, esquire,” he sued Thomas Pounde, executor of the said Richard Dalyngrygge, in Chancery regarding the manor of Lymbourne, Hampshire, pledged by the said Dalyngrygge with the said Pounde, and other property. He married (3rd) by settlement dated May 1477 KATHERINE (or CATHERINE) CHIDIOCK, widow successively of William Stafford, Esq. (died 18 June 1450), of Stinsford, Bomston, and Puriton, Dorset [see SOUTHWICK 10.iii; CHIDIOCK 14], and John Arundell (died 1473), of Lanherne, Cornwall [see CHIDIOCK 14; MORLEY 14], and daughter and co-heiress of John Chidiock, of Chideock, Buckham (in Beaminster), Caundle Haddon, etc., Dorset, by Katherine, daughter of Ralph Lumley, Knt., 1st Lord Lumley [see CHIDIOCK 13 for her ancestry]. SIR ROGER LEWKNOR died 4 Aug. 1478. He left a will dated 23 July 1478, proved 28 Nov. 1478 (P.C.C. 1 Logge), requesting burial in Trotton, Sussex. In the period, 1478-9, his widow, Katherine, sued Giles Daubeney and others, feoffees to uses, in Chancery regarding several manors, including Dedisham (in Slinfold), Bolebrook (in Hartfield), Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes), Iteford, and Selmeston, Sussex, South Mimms, Middlesex, etc. Katherine died 9 April 1479.
      Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. Of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 125. Berry County Gens.: Sussex Fams. (1830): 130 (Lewknor ped.). Dallaway Hist. of the Western Div. of Sussex 1(2) (1832): 217 (Camoys ped.). Banks Baronies in Fee 2 (1843): 146-147 (sub Tregoz). Sussex Arch. Colls. 3 (1850): 89-102; 9 (1857): 275-302; 41 (1898): 123-124, 136. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 2 (1863): 178-182 (Stafford ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 30 (1874): 59-61. Carthew Hundred of Launditch & Deanery of Brisky 1 (1878): 238-241 (Camoys ped.). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 1 (1880): 234-235, 298-299, 341. Cooke & Mundy Vis. of Worcester 1569 (H.S.P. 27) (1888): 86-87 (Lewknor ped.: "Sr Roger Lewknor Knt 10, 38 E. 4 [1] = Ellinor da. & heire to Ric. Camoys, 1 wiffe, sepult. 1445, [2] = Issabell da. of Roger Ichingham, 2 wiffe."). Hurst Hist. & Antiqs. of Horsham (1889): 148. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 136. C.P.R. 1467-1477 (1900): 633. C.P.R. 1476-1485 (1901): 575. English Rpts.: House of Lords 7 (1901): 895-924 (Camoys Peerage). Genealogist n.s. 17 (1901): 115; n.s. 31 (1915): 173-178 (re. Stafford fam.). Revised Rpts. of Cases in the English Courts of Common Law & Equity 49 (1901): 195-250 (Camoys Peerage). List of Early Chancery Procs. 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 16) (1903): 37, 440. Benolte et al. Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 25-30 (Lewknor ped.: "Sr Roger Lewknor knight 10 [sic] 38 E. 4, 1477, [1] = Ellianor ["Allice" erased] d. & heire of Ric. Camoys sepl 1445 1 wiff, [2] = Issabell d. of Roger Ickingham 2 wiffe.") (Camoys arms: Or, on a chief gules three bezants). Deedes Extracts from the Episcopal Regs. of Richard Paty, S.T.P., Lord Bishop of Chichester (Sussex Rec. Soc. 4) (1905): 112-113, 114-115, 124-125. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 332, 432. VCH Northampton 2 (1906): 595-596. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 126; 4 (1911): 81-82, 501 (Camoys arms: Argent a chief gules with three roundels argent therein). C.P.R. 1452-1461 (1910): 679. C.P. 2 (1912): 508, 510. VCH Bedfordshire 3 (1912): 189-202. Kingsford Stoner Letters & Papers 1290-1483 1 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 29) (1919): 128-129 (letter of Lady Katherine Arundell (nee Chidiock) dated ?1473 names her cousins, Thomas Stonor, Esq. [see DE LA POLE 10], and Richard Harcourt, Knt. [see WITHAM 9]). VCH Buckingham 4 (1927): 63-68. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 132-133. VCH Huntingdon 2 (1932): 232. Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933): 148-158 (sub Lewknor), 304-308 (sub Lords West). Wedgwood Hist. of Parl. 1 (1936): 541-542 (biog. of Roger Lewknor). VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 34-35 (Camoys arms: Or on a chief gules three roundels argent) (Lewknor arms: Azure three cheverons argent); 6(1) (1980): 69-70, 77; 7 (1940): 52-57, 81, 226, 257-258. CC.R. 1476-1485 (1954): 134-138. VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 110; 7 (1962): 11-12, 123. Paget (1957) 114: 1-7 (sub Camoys). VCH Wiltshire 8 (1965): 218-234. VCH Gloucester 10 (1972): 143-148. VCH Somerset 3 (1974): 111-120. VCH Middlesex 5 (1976): 282-285. Roskell Parl & Politics in Late Medieval England (1981): 383-396 (biog. of Sir John Wood). Roskell Pad & Politics in Late Medieval England (1981): 383-396 (biog. of Sir John Wood). National Archives, C 1/41/35; C 1/56/268; C 241/255/7; E 210/1557 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
      Children of Roger Lewknor, Knt., by Eleanor Camoys:
      i. THOMAS LEWKNOR, Knt. [see next].
      ii. MARGARET (or MARGERY) LEWKNOR, married (1st) JOHN WOOD, Knt., of East Molesey, Surrey [see KIRTON 13; SOMERSET 12.ix]; (2nd) THOMAS GARTH, Esq., of Boxted, Essex, and London [see KIRTON 13; SOMERSET 12.ix].
      iii. ELIZABETH LEWKNOR, married JOHN WROTH, Esq., of Durants (in Enfield), Middlesex [see WROTH 16].
      Child of Roger Lewknor, Knt., by Mary West:
      i. ROGER LEWKNOR, Esq., of Tangmere, Sussex, married ANNE ___ [see STOUGHTON 16].”