Henry Knyvet

Sir Henry Knyvet (1510–1547) of Charlton in Wiltshire and East Horsley in Surrey, Master of the Jewel Office. He was the son of Sir Thomas Knyvett and Muriel Howard, the widow of John Grey, 2nd Viscount Lisle, by whom she was the mother of Elizabeth Grey, Viscountess Lisle, one-time betrothed of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and the wife of Henry Courtenay. Muriel Howard was the daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, and Elizabeth Tilney, and through the Howard connection, Knyvett was related to many of the great figures of English history. He was the first coursin of Queen Anne Boleyn and of Queen Katherine Howard. His father died aboard the Regent, which burst into flames, during the Battle of St. Mathieu in 1512, while his mother died in childbirth four months later. He and his siblings were brought up by their grandmother, Eleanor Knyvett. Knyvet's elder siblings were: Edmund (1508–1551); Katherine who married firstly Sir William Fermor (d.1558), Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1540 and son of Sir Henry Fermor of East Barsham in Norfolk, and secondly Nicholas Mynne, Esquire; Ferdinand; and Anne, lady-in-waiting to Katherine of Aragon, who married firstly Thomas Thursby of Ashwicken (d. 1543) and secondly Henry Spelman (the son of Sir John Spelman and the father of Sir Henry Spelman).