Francis Knollys (the elder)

Sir Francis Knollys (* 1514 in Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, † July 19, 1596 ibid ) was an English minister under Elizabeth I ( Tudor ).

Life

He comes from a family that had already served the first Tudors, and began his career at the court of Henry VIII but high offices he held until the reign of Elizabeth I, whose cousin by marriage he was. The Queen commissioned him in 1568 the volatile Mary Stuart to take. Knollys was appointed to the Privy Council and managed the finances of the royal household. As Puritans he faced sometimes the royal policy critical, but he remained until his death a close friend of Elizabeth.

Family and descendants

In 1540 he married Catherine Carey, daughter of Mary Boleyn. This was sister of Queen Anne Boleyn.

  • Lettice Knollys (* 1543, † 1634)
  • Sir Henry Knollys (* 1545 † 1583 ) ∞ Margaret Cave (* 1549 † 1600), daughter of Sir Ambrose Cave and Margaret Willington
  • Elizabeth Knollys ∞ Sir Thomas Leighton, son of John Leighton of Watlesburgh and Joyce Sutton
  • William Knollys, 1st Earl of Banbury (* 1545 † 1632)
  • Edward Knollys (* 1546 - † 1580)
  • Sir Robert Knollys (* 1547 - † 1626 ) ∞ Catherine Vaughan, daughter of Sir Rowland Vaughan
  • Richard Knollys (* 1548 † 1596) ∞ Joan Heigham, daughter of John Heigham
  • Sir Francis Knollys the Younger ( * 1552 † 1643) ∞ Lettice Barrett, daughter of John Barrett, father of John Hampden
  • Sir Thomas Knollys ∞ Odelia de Morana, daughter of John de Morana
  • Anne Knollys (* 1553 † 1608) ∞ Thomas West, 2nd Baron De La Warr
  • Catherine Knollys (* 1560 † 1620) ∞ Gerald Fitzgerald, Baron Offaley
  • Cecily Knollys

Other known descendants:

  • Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet of Banbury (* 1704 † 1777), Admiral, ∞ 2 Mary Magdalene Therese de Bouget
  • Anna Charlotte Christina Knowles (* 1752 † 1839), Chamberlain's wife Empress Catherine the Great of Russia.
  • Sir Charles Henry Knowles, 2nd Baronet of Banbury (* 1754 † 1831), Admiral
  • Sir Francis Charles Knowles, 3rd Baronet of Banbury (* 1802 † 1892), Admiral
  • Sir Charles Frederick Knowles, 4th Baronet of Banbury (* 1832 † 1918), Vice - Admiral
  • Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (* 1874 † 1965), British statesman
  • Lady Diana Frances Spencer, Princess of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Princess of Wales ( b. 1961 † 1997), first wife of the Prince of Wales Prince Charles
Tudor dynasty Mary, Queen of Scots Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk Sir Charles Knowles, 2nd Baronet
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