Thomas Knyvet 1st Baron Knyvet 1545-1622

Thomas Knyvet 1st Baron Knyvet resided at Thomas Knyvet's Townhouse, 10 Downing Street, Westminster [Map].

On 1st May 1530 Francis Weston [aged 19] and [his mother] Anne Pickering [aged 16] were married.

In or before 1537 [his father] Henry Knyvet of Charlton Wiltshire [aged 26] and [his mother] Anne Pickering [aged 22] were married. They were fourth cousin once removed.

In 1545 Thomas Knyvet 1st Baron Knyvet was born to Henry Knyvet of Charlton Wiltshire [aged 35] and Anne Pickering [aged 31].

On 30th March 1547 [his father] Henry Knyvet of Charlton Wiltshire [aged 37] died at East Horsley, Surrey [Map].

On 20th May 1567 [his brother-in-law] Henry Paget 2nd Baron Paget Beaudasert [aged 28] and [his sister] Catherine Knyvet Baroness Geneville Beaudasert [aged 24] were married. She by marriage Baroness Paget Beaudasert.

After 28th December 1568 [his brother-in-law] Edward Carey [aged 28] and [his sister] Catherine Knyvet Baroness Geneville Beaudasert [aged 25] were married. They were half fifth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.

Around 1580 Anne Vavasour [aged 20] became the mistress of Edward de Vere 17th Earl of Oxford [aged 29]. The affair led to open skirmishes and duels in the streets of London, between Oxford and Anne's uncle, Thomas Knyvet 1st Baron Knyvet [aged 35], and his men, which on one occasion led to the wounding of both men, and the death of one of Oxford's men.

On 28th April 1582 [his mother] Anne Pickering [aged 68] died.

Before 1592 Thomas Knyvet 1st Baron Knyvet [aged 46] was appointed Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland [aged 58].

In 1592 Thomas Knyvet 1st Baron Knyvet [aged 47] was appointed Master of Arms.

Before 21st July 1597 Richard Warren [aged 59] and [his future wife] Elizabeth Hayward Baroness Knyvet [aged 54] were married.

On 21st July 1597 Thomas Knyvet 1st Baron Knyvet [aged 52] and Elizabeth Hayward Baroness Knyvet [aged 54] were married.

In 1604 Thomas Knyvet 1st Baron Knyvet [aged 59] was knighted.

In October 1605 Thomas Knyvet 1st Baron Knyvet [aged 60] searched and arrested Guy Fawkes whilst leaving the cellar shortly after midnight at Westminster Palace [Map].

In 1607 Thomas Knyvet 1st Baron Knyvet [aged 62] was created 1st Baron Knyvet of Escrick. [his wife] Elizabeth Hayward Baroness Knyvet [aged 64] by marriage Baroness Knyvet of Escrick.

On 16th September 1607 Princess Mary Stewart [aged 2] died of pneumonia at the Stanwell Park Stanwell, Surrey home of Thomas Knyvet 1st Baron Knyvet [aged 62] in whose care she had been placed. As soon as Mary died, the Earl of Worcester [aged 57], the Earl of Leicester [aged 43] and the Earl of Totnes [aged 52] went to Hampton Court Palace [Map], to inform the Queen [aged 32] of her daughter's death. Seeing the three men before her, Queen Anne realized what had happened and spared the men the task of telling her.

On 27th July 1622 Thomas Knyvet 1st Baron Knyvet [aged 77] died. He was buried at Church of St Mary the Virgin, Stanwell. Baron Knyvet of Escrick extinct.

In September 1622 [his former wife] Elizabeth Hayward Baroness Knyvet [aged 79] died. She was buried at Church of St Mary the Virgin, Stanwell.

John Vaughan of Sutton-on-Derwent in Yorkshire and [his mother] Anne Pickering were married.