Frances Kniveton

SIR ROBERT DUDLEY, who having in vain endeavoured to establish his legitimacy, retired in umbrage to Italy: whence, through the influence of his enemies, being summoned to return, and disobeying the mandate, his lands were seized under the statute of fugitives.

Sir Robert m. Alice Leigh, daughter of Sir Thomas Leigh, Bart., and his wife, Catherine, daughter of Sir John Spencer, of Wormleighton, in the county of Warwick, and aunt of Thomas, first Lord Leigh, of Stoneleigh, by whom he had issue:

1. Alice, died unmarried
2. Douglas, died unmarried
3. Catherine, m. to Sir Richard Leveson, K.B.
4. Frances, m. to Sir Gilbert Kniveton, of Bradley, in the county of Derby.

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• A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance. England (Google eBook) John Burke H. Colburn & R. Bentley, 1831 - 631 pages. Page 183

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Second daughter of Robert and Alice.