Margery Chichley (Knollys)

JOHN, the fecond Son of Alderman Chichele, was a Citizen, and Chamber- lain of London ; but of what Trade he was doth not appear. He lived in Harp Lane, in a large Houfe which hath fmce been converted into the Bakers Hall\ and had another Houfe and an Eftate near Wolwich '. He married Margery the Daughter of Sir Thomas Knolles Kt. k and by her (for, at leaft, we find not that he had any other Wife) he had Four and twenty.

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• Name: Margery Knolles
• Sex: F
• Birth: 1416 in Lullington, Kent, England
• Marriage 1 John Chichley b: 15 FEB 1409/10 in Lullington, Kent, England
  • Children
    • Beatrix Chichley b: 1433 in Lullington, Kent, England
    • Margery Chichley b: 1440 in Essex, England
• Marriage 2 John Peche b: 1400 in Lullington, Kent, England
  • Married: 1420
  • Children
    • William Peche b: 1421 in Lullington, Kent, England

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Margery Knolles, daughter of Thomas Knolles, twice Lord Mayor of London, and Joan his wife, married John Chichele, who was a citizen and Chamberlain of London. [1] [2] The Chichley family resided in London at a property in Hart Lane. They also had an estate near Woolwich. [3]

Margery and John were reputed to have had 24 children [4], 19 of whom are known to some degree:

1. Robert
2. Thomas
3. William
4. William
5. William
6. John
7. Martin
8. Reginald
9. Henry
10. Agnes
11. Katherine
12. Margaret
13. Christian
14. Editha
15. Beatrix
16. Florence
17. Philippa
18. Elizabeth

Margery was named in the 1435 will of her father Thomas. [5]

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Origins

Known children of Thomas Knolles (d 1435) and his wife Joan (d 1431) were Beatrice (Knollys) Bedham, Thomas Knollys, William Knollys, Margaret Knollys and Margery (Knollys) Chichley. Ref: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-540862

Family

From “Stemmata Chicheleana;” or, A genealogical account of some of the families derived from Thomas Chichele, of Higham-Ferrers in the county of Northampton; all of whose descendants are held to be entitled to fellowships in All Souls College, Oxford by virtue of their consanguinity to Archbishop Chichele, the founder by Buckler, Benjamin, 1718-1780 Publication date 1765. Page X. Archive.Org

... The next Epitaph in Weaver is on Thomas the Son of this Thomas Knolles ; wherein we are informed that he also was, in some Degree, a Partaker in the Fruitfulness of his Fami 'y ; for he had by his wife Isabel ten children. So that the Children of Joan Knolles, Thomas her son, and Margery her daughter, amounted in the whole, to fifty three,