Richard Knyvett

• Preferred Name: Richard Knyvett
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: L5KZ-XKM
  
• Occupation: Keeper of the Forest Clive (now part of the Rockingham Forest).
  
• Birth: 1291 in Southwick, Northamptonshire, England at LATI: N2.5179 LONG: E0.5011
  
• Death: 1352 in Southwick, Northamptonshire, England at LATI: N2.5179 LONG: E0.5011
  
• Notes:

  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.50;
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === !Brown book 5, P C 518. D'Ewes' Harl. Ms ===
  !Brown book 5, P C 518. D'Ewes' Harl. Mss 380 & 646 Brit. Museum, London. The Visit of Suffolk. Complete Peerage (new Ed) V2 p13. Banks: I; 158 (Ances. of Wm Clopton: p62-3.
  
  === Ancestral File Number: 853G-JL ===
  Ancestral File Number: 853G-JL
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === dead ===
  dead
  
  === of Southwick, Northamptonshire, was app ===
  of Southwick, Northamptonshire, was appointed custos 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.
  
  === !Archive Family Group sheet as husb from ===
  !Archive Family Group sheet as husb from Burks Family Records 1897; Eng. 1 p 361; Ancestry of William Clopton of Va. A 1 - C 17, p 62; Dic of Nat. Biog. 31-339; Pedigree Chart from Family Org. from information from hired researcher

• m. 1318 in Southwick, Northamptonshire, England

1. John Knyvet, b. 1322 in Southwick, Oundle, Northamptonshire, England     d. 16 FEB 1381 in Southwick Hall, Northamptonshire, England