The Bourchier and Bowker Pages
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Edmund Knyvett, Baron Berners
Abt 1484 - 1539 (55 years)
Generation: 1
1. Edmund Knyvett, Baron Berners was born about 1484 in Buckenham, Norfolk, England; died on 1 May 1539; was buried in Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, England. Notes:
Brother Thomas Knyvett. Sergeant Porter to Henry VIII.
He acquired Ashwellthorpe through his marriage to Jane Bourchier, heiress of John Bourchier. Edmund's will, dated 24 Jun 1546, and probated the same year, mentioned his wife, Jane, and his children, but not by name. The will of Jane Knyvett, widow, daughter and sole heir of John Bourchier, Knight, late Lord Berners, deceased, was dated 8 Apr 1560, and probated Dec 1562. It included a record of an earlier legal document that mentioned her sons, William and Edmund Knyvett, as well as her son, John Knyvett, her heir apparent. Mentioned in the will were her sons, William and Edmund, her daughters and sons-in-law, Alice and Oliver Sheers, Rose Reymes, widow, and Christian and Thomas Foster, and her "cousin", Thomas Knyvett, her heir apparent (presumably her grandson, the oldest son of her son, John). Also mentioned were her "goddaughters", Jane Walpole, Mary Walpole, and Bridget Walpole, all unmarried, "the same Agnes" (unmarried and unidentified), Bridget (the daughter of Edmund Knyvett) who was unmarried, and Henry (the son of Thomas Knyvett) who was under 21. One of the executors was her son, William Knyvett. The "goddaughters" must be "granddaughters", since the will of William Walpole, son of Catherine and John Walpole, dated 5 Aug 1587, and proved 5 Dec 1587, in the PCC, mentioned his mother, Catherine, now married to Thomas Scarlett, and his sisters, Mary Houghton, Jane Ryvett, and Bridget Houghell (amongst others)Edmund married Jane Bourchier, Baroness Berners about 1508 in Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, England. Jane (daughter of Lord John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners and Lady Katherine Howard, Baroness Berners) was born about 1490; died on 17 Feb 1561; was buried on 18 Feb 1561 in Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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