Person:Elizabeth Knyvett (9)

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Elizabeth Knyvett
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Name Elizabeth Knyvett
Gender Female
Birth? England
Death[1] 1518 Gloucestershire, England
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  1. father, William Knyvett (died 1515), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
    includes sources, last accessed Mar 2025.

    ... Elizabeth, likely the Elizabeth Knyvett who is mentioned in her father's will in 1514 as being of a marriageable age.

    In his will her father left her 500 marks for her marriage, if it were approved by the Duke and Lord Fitzwalter, and if her husband were a gentleman of £100 p.a. of land.

    And also likely the Elizabeth Knyvett who died in 1518, when Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham gives 15l 'To M. Geddyng, toward the burying of my said cousin', after giving at Easter last 'Eliz. knevet' the 20l due to her at Lady Day. The two were related through her mother.

    Roger Virgoe also writes that it was this Elizabeth who was a household servant of her cousin, the Duke of Buckingham, and she did not marry, dying at Eastington in Gloucestershire in 1518 ...