KNIGHTLEY, Richard (d.1442), of Fawsley, Northants. and Gnosall, Staffs.

Family and Education

s. and h. of Richard Knightley of Gnosall by Joan, da. of Sir John Giffard of Chillington, Staffs.; nephew of John†. m. by Jan. 1416, Elizabeth (d. 7 Apr. 1474), C140/50/39. da. of Thomas Purefoy of Fenny Drayton, Leics., at least 2s. Dist. 1430, 1439.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Northants. 1425, 1429, 1431, 1433, 1435, 1437.

Teller of the receipt of the Exchequer 2 Mar. 1413 – 28 Feb. 1425.

Commr. Kingston-upon-Hull, Dartmouth, Beds., Bucks., Leics., Northants., Oxon., Staffs. Nov. 1415 – Mar. 1442; to treat for loans, Northants., Rutland Mar. 1430, Northants. May, Aug. 1442.

Steward of Henry Beaufort, bp. of Winchester, at Southwark by 1416-aft. 1419. Hants. RO, bp. of Winchester’s pipe rolls 11M59/B1/163–4 (formerly 159419–20).

J.p. Northants. 12 Feb. 1422-July 1423 (q.), 3 July 1432-Feb. 1434, 17 Feb. 1434–d. (q.), Staffs. 12 Feb. 1422-July 1423 (q.), 7 July 1423-Mar. 1430.

Escheator, Northants. and Rutland 6 Nov. 1424 – 24 Jan. 1426, 3 Nov. 1434–7 Nov. 1435. It was almost certainly his father who served successive terms as escheator in Staffs. in 1414–16 and who attested the parlty. election in that county in 1416: E153/1605–6; CFR, xiv. 81, 136, 169; C219/11/8.

Bailiff, liberty of John Stafford, bp. of Bath and Wells, in Som. and Dorset, Mich. 1428-aft. Easter 1433; liberty of Queen Joan in Northants. by Mich. 1429-aft. Mich. 1430. E368/201, rot. 2d; 202, rot. 89; 205, rot. 8d.

Parlimentarian

KNIGHTLEY, Richard (d.1442), of Fawsley, Northants. and Gnosall, Staffs.

Main residences: Fawsley, Northants.; Gnosall, Staffs.

Author

S.J.P.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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