Lady Constance de Beverly

• Preferred Name: Lady Constance de Beverly^{[1] [2]}
  
• Alternate Name: Knollys
  
• Alternate Name: Constance LADY DE Beverly
  
• Gender: F
  
• Burial: in Whitefriars Carmelite Monastery, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.51 LONG: E0.12
  
• Death: 6 MAY 1356 in North Mimms, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.7248 LONG: E0.2087
  
• Birth: 6 JUN 1316 in Pontefract, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.6922 LONG: E1.3086 with note: The United Kingdom didn't exist before 1801.
  
• FSID: H3DY-Z1G
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  The Knollys were living in the City of London, the Year of Our Lord, Thirteen Hundred and Eighty-One and her husband, Sir Robert Knollys was a moderately wealthy person. While he was on an expedition out of the country. His wife, Lady Constance Knollys, became annoyed that light industry was being built very close to her property so she bought up the land to use as an extension to her home and to plant a rose garden. Between her two pieces of property was a main road. This presented somewhat of a problem, so she to built a small foot bridge over the road linking her two buildings. Unfortunately, she failed to get planning permission to build the bridge, so the London City council called a meeting to discuss the issue... because Constance Knollys, husband, Sir Robert Knollys, was a very powerful person, the council decided that the bridge can remain, but a fine should be imposed. There final decision was that a red rose was to be presented yearly to the Lord Mayor. Sir Robert died in 1407, and left this house on Seething Lane to the Church. The garden that remains in Seething Lane is modern, being a left over from the construction of the nearby Trinity House, built in the 1920. It is believed this helped bring back to life the Knollys Rose ceremony in 1924. There is a project to renovate the rose garden, because the Ceremony is now an integral part of the heritage of the site.
  
  From Find-a-Grave, Lady Constance De Beverley Knollys http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=100402880
  
  [Commentary: This colorful story demonstrates as much as anything how rank and privilege operated back then. Today, Lady Constance would be labeled as a NIMBY. It is humorous to reflect that, today, most of the time, city councils would tell the land owner to remove the offending structure and get a proper permit. I say "most of the time," however, knowing that, as F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote in The Great Gatsby, "the rich are different from you and me," so there are still instances where local government sucks up to people of power and influence. It is an open question whether today, Lady Constance would have still had her way. --Bob Scrivens ]
  
  Husband - Sir Robert Knollys
  Child - Sir Thomas Knollys
  
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  Catherine Knollys's Timeline
  1335
  1335
  Birth of Catherine
  London, Middlesex, England
  1360
  1360
  Age 25
  Birth of Sir Thomas Knollys, Lord Mayor of London
  London, Middlesex, England
  ????
  Birth of Robert Knollys
  ????
  Birth of Isabell Knollys
  ????
  Death of Catherine
  Hertfordshire, England
  
  === Narrative and ancestry that had been entered in Vital statistics ===
  During the Hundred Years War between England and France, he was judged « ...the most able and skillful man-at-arms in all the companies » He had risen from the ranks in the breton wars and fought with the Thirty, gaining knighthood along the way. The French recorded him as Sir Robert Canole (and Cannolles), who “grievously harmed France all the days of his life”. (There is a place called Cahagnolles 15 km south of Bayeux).
  
  According to “The White Company” and “The Dictionary of Chivalry” by Grand Uden, Sir Robert began his mercenary life within the English White Company led by Nigel Loring and Sir John Harwood. Sir Robert and Sir Hugh later left the ranks to raid the marches of Navarre.
  
  Barbara Tuchman wrote in her book “A Distant Mirror”:
  
  The object of Sir Robert Knolly’s savage raid through northern France in 1370 was to do as much injury as possible in order to damage the French war effort and hold back French forces from Acquitane.
  
  And: Edward Plantagenet “The Black Prince” (d. 1376) appointed him Captain of Knights and Squires of his personal household.
  
  In his later years, Sir Robert spent much of his wealth on charity work, including building a “goodly fair bridge” over the River Medway at Rochester and a hospital in Rome for English travellers and religious pilgrims.
  
  The family coat of arms includes a red shield on which a silver chevron is emblazoned with three Tudor roses.
  
  The crest of the shield is a silver elephant.
  
  The famly motto is “In utrumque paratus”.
  
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  Robert Knollys's Timeline
  1330
  1330
  Birth of Robert
  England
  1360
  1360
  Age 30
  Birth of Sir Thomas Knollys, Lord Mayor of London
  London, Middlesex, England
  1407
  August 15, 1407
  Age 77
  Death of Robert at Sconethorp Manor, Norfolk, England
  Sconethorp Manor, Norfolk, England
  ????
  August 15
  Burial of Robert
  City of London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  ????
  Birth of Robert Knollys
  ????
  Birth of Isabell

• m. 1355 in North Mymms, Hertfordshire, England

1. Thomas Knollys - Lord Mayor of London, b. 1350 in North Mymms, Hertfordshire, England     d. 15 SEP 1435 in London, Middlesex, England

1. Title: Constance Beverley Knollys, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLX-WXKR : 15 June 2022), Constance Beverley Knollys, ; Burial, London, City of London, Greater London, England, Whitefriars Carmelite Monastery; citing record ID 100402880, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLX-WXKR;
   
2. Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015
   Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=9289&h=6862044&indiv=try;