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Jane Knightley

Also Known As: "Jean Knightley"
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Birthplace: Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom
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Daughter of Sir Richard Knightley, K.B. and Lady Jane Knightly
Wife of George Lumley
Mother of John Lumley, 6th Baron Lumley; Jane Lumley and Barbara Lumley
Sister of Sir Edmund Knightley, Kt., MP; Nicholas Knightly; Sir Richard Knightley, Kt., MP; Sir Valentine Knightley; Susanna Spencer and 7 others

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About Jane Knightley

  • George LUMLEY (Sir)
  • Died: Jun 1537
  • Notes: not characterized by the same loyalty as marked many of his family. He became involved in the Pilgrimage of Grace, with Lord Darcy, Sir Thomas Percy, brother of the Earl of Northumberland, and others, and with them was apprehended, committed to the Tower of London, and in Jun of 1537, they were all arraigned at Westminster before the Marquis of Exeter, High Steward of England, and being found guilty of high treason, were beheaded at Tyburn. Executed on Tower Hill for treason.
  • Father: John LUMLEY (5° B. Lumley)
  • Mother: Joan SCROPE (B. Lumley)
  • Married: Jean KNIGHTLEY (dau. of Sir Richard Knightley of Upton)
  • Children:
    • 1. John LUMLEY (6° B. Lumley)
    • 2. Jane LUMLEY
    • 3. Barbara LUMLEY
  • From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/LUMLEY.htm#George LUMLEY (Sir)1
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  • John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley (c. 1533 – 1609) was an English aristocrat, who is remembered as one of the greatest collectors of art and books of his age.
  • John Lumley, born about 1533, was the grandson and heir of John, Lord Lumley. He was the only son of George Lumley (who had been executed in the lifetime of his father for his role in the Pilgrimage of Grace), by Jane, second daughter and coheir of Sir Richard Knightley of Upton, Northamptonshire.
  • In a petition to Edward VI Lumley stated that he was a child at the death of his grandfather in 1544, to whose honors he did not succeed because of his own father's attainder, and in 1547 he obtained an Act of Parliament restoring him in blood, and enacting "that he, the said John Lumley and the heirs male of his body, should have hold, enjoy and bear the name, dignity, state and pre-eminence of a Baron of the Realm" whereby he became Baron Lumley (a new Barony being created of that name, in tail male ) and he was summoned to Parliament accordingly from 5 October 1553 to 5 November 1605. .... etc.
  • Lumley married firstly, before 4 March 1552, Jane, the eldest of the two daughters and coheirs of Henry Fitzalan Earl of Arundel, by his first wife Catherine, daughter of Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset. Joan Lumley was one of the six principal ladies who sat in the third chariot of state at the coronation of Mary I in 1553. She was buried 9 March 1576/7, at Cheam, Surrey (as were three of her children, all of whom died in infancy), near her father’s estate, Nonsuch Palace.
  • Lumley married secondly, Elizabeth Darcy, daughter of Thomas Darcy, 2nd Baron Darcy of Chiche, by Frances, daughter of Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich. Elizabeth survived her husband by 10 years and was buried 4 February 1616/7 at Cheam. .... etc.
  • John Lumley died 11 April 1609, aged 76, without any surviving children. At his death the Barony of Lumley (created 1547) became extinct. He was buried at Cheam with his first wife; a tomb and monument there at St. Dunstan’s Church memorialize Lumley and his two wives. The composer John Bull wrote one of his greatest works to Lumley's memory, contained in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, (Pavan and Galliard Lord Lumley). In his will dated 28 January 1606 and probated in 1609, Lumley settled the bulk of his estate on his cousin and heir male.
  • From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lumley,_1st_Baron_Lumley
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Jane Knightley's Timeline

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Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom
1533
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