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Mary Fermor

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Death: September 27, 1573
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Daughter of Sir Richard Fermor, MP and Anne Fermor
Wife of Sir Richard Knightley, MP
Mother of Sir Valentine Knightley, MP; Dorothy Unton; Mary Barnardiston; Jerome Knightley and Edward Knightley
Sister of Sir John Fermor, Kt., MP; Joan Kempe; Elizabeth Lovett; Thomas Fermor, MP; Jerome Fermor, MP and 2 others

Managed by: Oliver Marcus Stedall
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About Mary Fermor

  • Mary Fermor1
  • F, #235836, d. 27 September 1573
  • Last Edited=26 Jun 2007
  • Mary Fermor was the daughter of Richard Fermor.1 She married Sir Richard Knightley, son of Sir Valentine Knightley and Anne Ferrers.1 She died on 27 September 1573.1
  • Her married name became Knightley.1
  • Citations
  • 1.[S21] L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 167. Hereinafter cited as The New Extinct Peerage.
  • From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p23584.htm#i235836
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  • Sir Richard Knightley (1533–1615) of Fawsley Hall in Northamptonshire was an English Member of Parliament (MP) and leading patron of the Puritans during the reign of Elizabeth I. The Knightleys were one of the leading families of Northamptonshire.
  • Knightley was the eldest son of Valentine Knightley of Fawsley and his wife Anne (née Ferrers). He succeeded his father in 1566 and was knighted in 1565.
  • He was MP for Northampton in the Parliaments ... etc.
  • .... He died in 1615.
  • He married firstly Mary Fermor, the daughter of Richard Fermor of Easton Neston, by whom he had three sons and three daughters.
  • He married secondly Elizabeth Seymour, the daughter of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, by whom he had seven sons and seven daughters. His son and heir, Valentine, and a grandson, Richard, were also members of Parliament.
  • From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Knightley
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  • KNIGHTLEY, Sir Richard (1533-1615), of Fawsley, Northants.
  • b. 1533, 1st s. of Sir Valentine Knightley of Fawsley by Anne, da. of Sir Edward Ferrers† of Baddesley Clinton, Warws. m. (1) Mary (d.1573) da. of Richard Fermor† of Easton Neston, 3s. inc. Valentine 3da.; (2) Elizabeth (d.1602), da. of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, 7s. 2da. Kntd. 1565; suc. fa. 1566.2
  • From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/kn...
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  • KNIGHTLEY, Valentine (c.1555-1618), of Fawsley, Northants.
  • b. c.1555, 1st s. of Sir Richard Knightley by his 1st w. educ. Hart Hall, Oxf. 1568. m. Anne (d.1596), da. of Sir Edward Unton of Wadley, Berks., 1s. d. young, 3da. Kntd. 1603; suc. fa. 1615.
  • From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/kn...
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