Alice Knyvett

• Alice Lynne1,2,3,4
• F, #27474, d. after 1 January 1490
• Father William Lynne, Esq.2,3,4
• Mother Alice Stokes3,4 b. c 1390
• Alice Lynne was born at of Norfolk, England

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Family

. She married John Knyvet, Esq., Justice of the Peace for Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, & Norfolk, son of Sir John Knyvett, Sheriff of Northamptonshire and Elizabeth Clifton, circa 1438; They had 1 son (Sir William) and 3 daughters (Elizabeth; Margery, wife of Thomas Jenney; & Christine, wife of Sir Henry Colet (by whom she had 22 children, only 1 lived to adulthood).2,3,4 Alice Lynne died after 1 January 1490.2,3,4

• Family John Knyvet, Esq., Justice of the Peace for Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, & Norfolk b. c 1415, d. 1 Jan 1490
• Children
  • Sir William Knyvett, Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk, Burgess of Melcombe, Bletchingley, & Grantham, Constable of Rising Castle+2,3,4 b. c 1440, d. 25 Nov 1515 or 2 Dec 1515
  • Thomas Knyvett b. c 1442
  • Edmund Knyvett b. c 1444
• Citations
• [S4767] Unknown author, Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 4th Ed., by F. L. Weis, p. 62; Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, by David Faris, p. 121.
• [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 367.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 317.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 174.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p915.htm#i...

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Castle Defender

https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/norfolk/castles/new-buckenh...

Norfolk > Castles > New Buckenham Castle

... By 1461 the castle was owned by Sir John Knyvet, a Lancastrian supporter in the Wars of the Roses. The Yorkist king Edward IV sent troops to subdue the castle but they were beaten back by loyal soldiers led by Sir John's wife Alice. According to reports at the time Alice Knyvet stood atop the castle keep and shouted to the enemy that she would die defending the castle. She had no need to, for the king's men retreated.

http://castlestudiestrust.org/blog/2018/03/08/4-women-who-made-thei...

Contained in the Patent Rolls of King Edward IV’s reign is a story detailing the defence of Bokenham Castle by Alice Knyvet. In 1461, Edward IV claimed Bokenham Castle by virtue of legal inquisition. The castle was, at the time, owned and occupied by John and Alice Knyvet, who did not easily relinquish their estate. The king sent nine commissioners and an escheator to take the castle, possibly knowing that John was away and the castle would be easily handed over.
However, as they approach the outer ward, Alice appeared in the gatehouse tower with the drawbridge raised who kept the castle ‘with slings, parveises, fagots, timber, and other armaments of war’ (CPR, 1461-7, p. 67). We are told that Alice along with William Toby of Old Bokenham, gentleman, and fifty other persons were ‘armed with swords, glaives, bows and arrows’.

Supporting data

• Alice Lynne Knyvet
• Birth: 1418 Buckenham, Norfolk, England
• Death: 1443 Buckenham, Norfolk, England
• Parents:
• William John and Alice Lynne
• Family links:
• Spouse:
• John IV Knyvet (1416 - 1491)
• Burial: Buckenham Priory, Buckenham, Broadland District, Norfolk, England
• Find A Grave Memorial# 146090121
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=146090121 ______________
• John KNYVETT (Sir Knight)
• Born: ABT 1405 / ABT 1425, Buckenham, Norfolk, England
• Died: 1489/90
• Father: John KNYVETT
• Mother: Elizabeth CLIFTON
• Married: Alice LYNNE (dau. of William Lynne) ABT 1438, Norfolk, England
• Children:
  • 1. William KNYVETT (Sir Knight)
  • 2. Elizabeth KNYVETT (d. 1482, unm.)
  • 3. Margaret KNYVETT
  • 4. Christian KNYVETT
• Married 2: Alice GREY
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/KNYVETT.htm#John KNYVETT (Sir Knight)1 _________________
• Sir William Knyvett (c. 1440 – 2 December 1515) was an English knight in the late Middle Ages. He was the son of John Knyvet and Alice Lynne,[1][2] and assumed the titles of Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk, Burgess of Melcombe, Bletchingley, & Grantham, Constable of Rising Castle.[3]
• Sir William married three times. The first was to Alice Grey, daughter of John Grey, Esq., of Kempston, eldest son of Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn by his second wife, Joan Astley; by whom he had issue.[1] His second marriage was to Lady Joan Stafford, daughter of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Lady Anne Neville, by whom he had issue.[1] His final marriage was to Lady Joan Courtenay, the daughter of Thomas de Courtenay, 5th Earl of Devon, a friend of York, and his wife, Lady Margaret Beaufort; they had no issue.[1][3]
• Sir William Knyvett died December 2, 1515 in Wymondham, Norfolk.
• His children by his first wife, Alice Grey, were Sir Edmund Knyvett of Buckenham, who married Eleanor Tyrrell; Anne Knyvett who married John Thwaites, Esq.; Bennet Knyvett; and Elizabeth Knyvett.[1] By his second wife, Lady Joan Stafford, Knyvett had three sons including Sir Edward Knyvett and Charles Knyvett; along with three daughters including Anne Knyvett who married Charles Clifford, Esq.[1]
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Knyvett ____________________