The Bourchier and Bowker Pages

Discovering the ancestry of the South African Bowkers, and the English Bourchiers

John Knyvett

Male - Bef 1561


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  John Knyvett (son of Edmund Knyvett, Baron Berners and Jane Bourchier, Baroness Berners); died before Feb 1561.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Edmund Knyvett, Baron Berners was born about 1484 in Buckenham, Norfolk, England; died on 1 May 1539; was buried in Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, England.

    Edmund married Jane Bourchier, Baroness Berners about 1508 in Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, England. Jane (daughter of Lord John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners and Lady Katherine Howard, Baroness Berners) was born about 1490; died on 17 Feb 1561; was buried on 18 Feb 1561 in Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Jane Bourchier, Baroness Berners was born about 1490 (daughter of Lord John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners and Lady Katherine Howard, Baroness Berners); died on 17 Feb 1561; was buried on 18 Feb 1561 in Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, England.
    Children:
    1. 1. John Knyvett died before Feb 1561.
    2. Anne Knyvett
    3. Elizabeth Knyvett
    4. Thomas Knyvett
    5. Edmund Knyvett
    6. Alice Knyvett
    7. Christian Knyvett
    8. Rose Knyvett
    9. William Knyvett
    10. Catherine Knyvett
    11. Anne Knyvett


Generation: 3

  1. 6.  Lord John Bourchier, 2nd Baron BernersLord John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners was born about 1467 in Tharfield, Hertfordshire, England (son of Sir Humphrey Bourchier, Knight, 1st and last Lord Bourchier of Cromwell and Elizabeth Tylney, Countess of Surrey); died on 16 Mar 1533 in Calais; was buried in St. Mary's Church, Chalais, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France.

    John married Lady Katherine Howard, Baroness Berners before 13 May 1490. Katherine (daughter of Lord John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk and Margaret Chedworth) was born about 1471 in Tendring, Essex, England; died on 12 Mar 1536 in Tendring Hall, Stoke-By-Nayland, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 7.  Lady Katherine Howard, Baroness Berners was born about 1471 in Tendring, Essex, England (daughter of Lord John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk and Margaret Chedworth); died on 12 Mar 1536 in Tendring Hall, Stoke-By-Nayland, Suffolk, England.
    Children:
    1. Thomas Bourchier was born about 1490; died before 1533.
    2. 3. Jane Bourchier, Baroness Berners was born about 1490; died on 17 Feb 1561; was buried on 18 Feb 1561 in Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, England.
    3. Margaret Bourchier was born between 1490 and 1526; died before 1533.
    4. Mary Bourchier was born about 1500; died before 1533.


Generation: 4

  1. 12.  Sir Humphrey Bourchier, Knight, 1st and last Lord Bourchier of CromwellSir Humphrey Bourchier, Knight, 1st and last Lord Bourchier of Cromwell was born between 1440 and 1444 in Halstead, Essex, England (son of John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners and Margorie Berners, Baroness Berners); died on 14 Apr 1471 in Battle of Barnet, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, London, England.

    Humphrey married Elizabeth Tylney, Countess of Surrey. Elizabeth (daughter of Sir Frederick Tylney, of Ashwellthorpe and Elizabeth Cheney) was born in 1446; died on 4 Apr 1497. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 13.  Elizabeth Tylney, Countess of Surrey was born in 1446 (daughter of Sir Frederick Tylney, of Ashwellthorpe and Elizabeth Cheney); died on 4 Apr 1497.
    Children:
    1. 6. Lord John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners was born about 1467 in Tharfield, Hertfordshire, England; died on 16 Mar 1533 in Calais; was buried in St. Mary's Church, Chalais, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France.
    2. Margaret Bourchier was born on 1 Jun 1468 in Beningborough, Yorkshire, England; died on 1 Jun 1551 in Cheddington, Buckinghamshire, England.
    3. Anne Bourchier, Baroness Dacre of the South was born about 1470; died on 29 Sep 1530.

  3. 14.  Lord John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk

    John married Margaret Chedworth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 15.  Margaret Chedworth
    Children:
    1. 7. Lady Katherine Howard, Baroness Berners was born about 1471 in Tendring, Essex, England; died on 12 Mar 1536 in Tendring Hall, Stoke-By-Nayland, Suffolk, England.