John (Knightley) de Knightley (1314 - 1391)

Ancestors

Descendants

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Biography

"His son Robert IV. of Knightley, who was summoned in 1301 to follow his king against the Scots with horse and arms, follows his father's steps and matches to good purpose with Alice Doyley, daughter of Sir John Doyley of Ranton and heir of her brother Henry Doyley of Cowley. She brought her husband the manor of Little Wyrley and overlived him two and twenty years, dying in the plague year of 1349. Their son Robert V. is a knight with broad lands in Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Shropshire and Berkshire, and dying about 1365 leaves a son and heir, Sir John Knightley, who is dead in 1393, the last male of the direct line of Knightleys of Knightley. A daughter and heir, Joan of Knightley, takes Knightley with her to her husband Roger Peshall, and their daughter, another Joan, takes the land from Peshall to Lee, marrying William Lee, a busy lawyer from Shropshire. They had no child, and the last lady of Knightley conveys away Knightley to her cousin Richard Peshall, to whom she had already passed away her shield of the arms of Knightley, excluding herself and all others of her name from any right in it."^[1]

Property

Manor of Shushions

"They appear to have had issue: 1. Sir Robert de Knightley, of Knightley, the fourth of that name in succession (whose granddaughter and heiress Joan, the daughter of John de Knightley, of Knightley, married Roger de Peshall, and left an only daughter and heiress Joan, who became the wife of William Lee, but died without issue); 2, John de Knightley, of whom presently; 3, Gilbert Knightley, Clerk, who was presented by one of the D'Oyleys to the Church of Stoke D'Oyley, co. Northampton, in 1349, which he held till 1369. (fn. 30)

John de Knightley, the second son, had the manor of Little Wyrley for life, by the gift of Alice his mother, in 9 Edward III. (to be held of her by the annual render of a rose), as appears by the confirmation thereof from Robert de Knightley to the said John his brother in 14 Edward III. (1340), to whom also John D'Oyley released it in the following year. (fn. 31) In 41 Edward III. (1368) his uncle Henry D'Oyley likewise gave him for term of life, by deed dated at Cowley (in which he styles him his nephew John de Knightley, senior), all his messuages in the feuds of Cowley and Gnosall. (fn. 30)"^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ The Ancestor; a quarterly review of county and family history, heraldry and antiquities, pg 3 [1]
2. ↑ 'The parish of Church Eaton: Shushions,' in Staffordshire Historical Collections, Vol. 4, ed. George Wrottesley (London: Staffordshire Record Society, 1883), 103-114, accessed March 17, 2016, [2]