Richard (Knightley) de Knightley (1364)

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Biography

"His second son John Knightley seems to have been the only man of the line hitherto of any real distinction. A lawyer of some eminence he is made justiciary of Chester after the death of Hotspur at Shrewsbury fight in 1403, and although by reason of his humble rank he is soon to cede this high office to the Lord Talbot, he goes on with the exercise of jurisdiction as deputy to that lord. He married a knight's daughter, Joan Thornbury, widow of William Peyto of Chesterton in Warwick, of whose lands he enjoyed the custody, and after the justiciary's death she marries for a third husband Sir Robert Corbet of Hadley. But his only son by this lady dies young, and for the line of Knightley we turn to his elder brother Richard of Gnosall, who prospers as we may imagine beside his brother's prosperity and leaves by his wife Joan Giffard a son Richard Knightley of Gnosall, who adds Fawsley to his Staffordshire manors of Burgh Hall and Cowley and dies in 1443, first founder of the long line of Knightley of Fawsley."^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ The Ancestor; a quarterly review of county and family history, heraldry and antiquities, pg 5 [1]