William de Knightley

- Bef 1399

• Name	William de Knightley  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 31 Jan 1399  [3]
  Person ID	I2936	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018

  
  

  Family	Anne de Cherleton,   b. Bef 1380, of Apley near Wellington, Shropshire, England d. Bef 1399 (Age < 19 years)
  Children	+ 1. Thomas Charlton,   b. Abt 30 Mar 1394, Apley near Wellington, Shropshire, England d. 4 Jan 1460, Apley near Wellington, Shropshire, England (Age ~ 65 years)
  Family ID	F2203	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Kay Allen cautions, in a 1999 post to SGM, that "[t]he Knightley line behind William de Knightley is totally unknown. He is said to be of the line of Fawsley, Northamptonshire. Fawsley was not acquired until 1416 and William had been dead since before 1403. If he had lived as late as 1459, he would have held Apley by the courtesy of England, which is the widower's equivalent of dower when the wife was an heiress, which he did not. He could be either of the Knightley line or of the Gnosall line."

  
  

• Sources

  [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S977] The Blackmans of Knight's Creek: Ancestors and Descendants of George and Maria (Smith) Blackman by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1980. [S442] Kay Allen, 3 Apr 2002, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.