Eleanor Knightley

Eleanor Throckmorton Knightley
BIRTH: 1424 Coughton, Stratford-on-Avon District, Warwickshire, England
DEATH: 10 Oct 1502 (aged 77–78) Fawsley, Daventry District, Northamptonshire, England
BURIAL: St Mary's Churchyard Fawsley, Daventry District, Northamptonshire, England
FATHER: John Throckmorton 1380–1445
MOTHER: Eleanor De La Spine Throckmorton 1385–1467
SPOUSE: Richard Knightley 1427–1476 (m. 1440)
SIBLINGS
1. Agnes Throckmorton Winselowe
2. Thomas Throckmorton 1412–1472
3. Matilda Throckmorton Greene Middleton 1425–1496
4. Emma Knightley Andrew unknown–1490
5. Maude Knightley Humphrey 1453 – unknown
6. Richard De Knightley 1455–1534
7. Richard Knightly 1455–1534
8. Eleanor Knightley Cotton 1457–1520
9. James Knightley 1461 – unknown
10. Mary Knightley Crewse 1467–1566
11.Nicholas Knightley 1471 – unknown
12.John Knightley 1476 – unknown
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Year of Birth: 1424 Place of Birth: Coughton, Stratford-on-Avon District, Warwickshire, England
Death: 10 Oct 1502 (aged 77–78)

Eleanor Throckmorton married Richard Knightley on December 1, 1440. Sources variously ascribe birth years of 1412, 1417, and 1427 to Richard Knightley, with a similar lack of concurrence on the year of his death. Issue to the marriage of Richard Knightley and Eleanor Throckmorton included daughter Emma Knightley, born 1464 in Fawsley, Northamptonshire.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152596364/eleanor-knightley

Origins

Nicolas, Nicholas Harris. Testamenta Vetusta (Nichols & Son, London, 1826) Vol. 1, Page 248: “Will of Sir John Throckmorton, Knt.” < GoogleBooks >

John Throckmorton, Knight', 1445. My wife, Eleanor; my eldest daughter, wife of John Russell; my second daughter, wife of Thomas Winslowe; my third daughter, wife of John Rous; my fourth daughter, married to Robert Giffard; my fifth daughter, wife of Thomas Green; my sixth daughter, married to Richard Knightley. I appoint my sons, Thomas and John', and my wife Eleanor, my executors; and Sir Ralph Boteler, Lord of Sudley, and Treasurer of England, overseer of this my Will *.