Person:Richard Knyvett (3)

Of Southwick, Northamptonshire, was appointed custodian of the forest of Clyve in that county in the time of Edward II. His forefathers had for many generations been lords of Southwick, and at a still earlier date, it is recorded in Camden's "Britanicca," that the castle of Launceston in Cornwall was taken by the Conqueror from Othmar le Knevitt, then the Hereditary Constable, and given to Roger, Earl of Mortain, with the Earldom of Cornwall, from whom these lands passed to the possession of the Crown in the time of Edward I.