Born about in Drayton, Leicestershire, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thomas Purefoy
and Margareta (de Knightley) Purefoy
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Richard Knightley
— married
about 1415 in Drayton, Leicestershire, England
Descendants 
Mother of
Richard Knightley and John Knightley
Died about
at about age 74
[location unknown]
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Biography
Elizabeth Purefoy married Sir Richard Knightley, son of Richard Knightley and Joan Gifford.[1][2]
Property
Fawsley Manor
- "The year 1416 was a marked epoch in the history of the Knightley family, since it was at that date that they acquired the manor of Fawsley, which from that day to this has been their home. In the picturesque little church, which lies at a short distance east of the manor house, generation after generation have found their resting-place, and a careful study of the monuments it contains reveals much family history. But, as is the case in most families, one or two only in each century are sufficiently remarkable to deserve a record in the pages of the county history.
- The purchaser of Fawsley was Richard Knightley of Burgh Hall, in the county of Stafford, and the first of the family to represent the county of Northampton in Parliament. He died in 1443, leaving his wife Elizabeth Purefoy in possession of the property, so that their son, also Richard Knightley, only succeeded to the estate on her death in 1474. He married Eleanor daughter of John Throgmorton of Coughton, having been knighted in 1494, when Henry VII. 's second son, afterwards Henry VIIL, was made Duke of York. He was three times sheriff. They had nine children, of whom the eldest, Richard Knightley, married Joan Skenard or Skimerton, daughter and heir of Henry Skenard of Alderton. She brought in a great number of the quarterings which are still included in the Knightley shield. The fine altar tomb in Fawsley Church is erected to the memory of this lady and her husband. He died in 1534, but apparently the monument was erected in her lifetime, as no one has ever taken the trouble to fill in the date of her death. Her only daughter Susan married Sir William Spencer of Althorp"[3]
Sources
- ↑ The Visitation of the county of Warwick in the year 1619, pg 399 [1]
- ↑ L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 167. [2]
- ↑ The Ancestor; a quarterly review of county and family history, heraldry and antiquities, pg 6 [3]
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Robert and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy, "Notes for Thomas Purefoy and Katherine de Wellesbrough" and the webpage listed in the first post- they cite yet another book and formal document where it is mentioned Thomas studied law and then goes on about various gifts including : "...and had a memorable Grant from John de Wellesburgh of the inheritance in reversion of Fenny Drayton and Whellesburgh, two good Mannours in Leicestershire; where by the same John did also pass his Arms to be born by him the said Thomas, his heirs and assigns, as entirely as he himself or his Ancestours had born them; all which appears by the Deed sealed with his Seal of Arms [crest and seal are then described]..." but the rest goes on about the child being a daughter born during this time of Elizabeth and there was only one born during those years.
Katherine is a confirmed wife already and her parents were Elizabeth and John Wellesborough.
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Parties: Anketin de Howeby, Thomas Purefey and Thomas Wauere (or Thomas Wanere), chaplain, querents, and John Whellesburgh' and Elizabeth, his wife, deforciants. Property: The manors of Fennydrayton' and Whellesburgh'. Action: Plea of covenant. Agreement: John and Elizabeth have acknowledged the manors to be the right of Thomas Purefey, as those which the same Thomas, Anketin and Thomas Wauere have of their gift..."
Samson Lennard, Augustine Vincen, John Fetherston, ed.,The Visitation of the County of Leicester in the Year 1619 (London: 1870), 32,
Online version url: [1]
There is mention again of the above 1397 agreement between Katherine's parents and property inheritance for Thomas Purefoy & Katherine's heir(ess) as mentioned above. Then there is a copy of the "Purifoy" 1619 Leicestershire pedigree mentions "current" marriage of Thomas and wife Katherine, daughter of John de Wellesborough.