Francis KNOLLYS

                   Note:
per Faris (1999) p. 69: [quote] KATHERINE CAREY, was born about 1524 in
the midst of her mother's affair with King Henry VIII, evidently the
daughter of the latter, rather than of her mother's husband, William
Carey [see TUDOR 3 for the ancestry of King HENRY VIII]. She was married
about 1539 to FRANCIS KNOLLYS, Knt., K.G., of Caversham and Rotherfield
Greys, co. Oxford, Knight of the Shire for Oxfordshire, son and heir of
Robert Knollys, of Rotherfield Greys, by Lettice, daughter of Thomas
Peynston, Knt., of Hawridge, co. Buckingham. He was born by 1512, and,
having displayed bravery at fighting in Scotland at Pinkie, was knighted
in September 1528. They had seven sons and four daughters. In 1533, after
the accession of Queen Mary, he and his wife left for the Continent. In
1555 he was a student at Basle, and they resided thereafter at Frankfurt
until the accession of his cousin Queen Elizabeth. He was Vice
Chamberlain of the Household and Treasurer to the Household of Queen
Elizabeth. She was Chief Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth. She
died at Hampton Court, while in attendance on the Queen, on 15 Jan.
1568/9, and was buried at Queen Elizabeth's expense in the equivalent of
a royal burial at St. Edmund's Chapel, Westminster Abbey. Frauncys
Knollys, K.G., of Caversham, Oxford died testate (P.C.C., 67 Drake) on
19 July 1596.
Swyncombe and Ewelme (1858), pp. 360-373. CF. 4:160 (1916). CF.
6:627.629) (1926) (biography of Henry Carey, brother of Katherine). TAG
18:212-218 (1942). TAG 19:200 (Apr. 1943). Paget (1977), p. 128. Bindoff
(1982) 2:479-481 (he was to rank high at court and in government. He sat
in every one of Elizabeth's Parliaments until 1593 and at his death ...
he was the last surviving Member of the Parliament of 1529). Gen.Mag.
25:345-352 (March 1997) (evidence presented by Anthony Hoskins for
considering Katherine the base-born daughter of King Henry VIII)
(Katherine's brother Henry was called the Kynge's son in a contemporary
(1535) source, quoting a man who was executed two weeks later for
denying the king's supremacy; evidence that William Carey did not
father his putative children; the paternal interest shown by King Henry
to Katherine and Henry, as well as the extraordinary favour shown them by
Queen Elizabeth).
Child of Francis Knollys, by Katherine Carey:
i. ANNE KNOLLYS, married THOMAS WEST [see HUMPHREY 3].1 [end quote] 1