Sir Robert KNOLLYS [6623] ¹⁵⁴⁴

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  Noted events in his life were:

1. He worked as an and late in that year was appointed to wait on ‘the king's dearest son the prince’ (Arthur), he received £5 ‘by way of reward’ for each of the three years 1488 to 1490 in 1488. ¹⁵⁶⁵

2. He worked as a when Henry VII met Archduke Philipin 1500, Knollys accompanied the English king as one of the ushers of the chamber. In 1500. ¹⁵⁶⁵

3. He worked as a He continued in the same office under Henry VIII, and received an annuity of £20, on 15 November 1509, and a grant of Upclatford, called Rookes Manor, in Hampshire — part of the confiscated property of Sir Richard Empson — on 10 February 1510/11. On 15 November 1509. ¹⁵⁶⁵

4. He signed a will his will, dated 13 November 1520 on 13 November 1520. ¹⁵⁶⁵

5. Will Proved: on 19 June 1521,. ¹⁵⁶⁵

6. He owned land On 9 July 1514 the usher and his wife were jointly granted the manor of Rotherfield Greys, near Henley-on-Thames, on 9 July 1514. ¹⁵⁶⁵

Robert married Lady Lettice PENISTON [6624] [MRIN: 5424], daughter of Thomas PENISTON [6648] and Alice BULSTRODE [6649], about 1514.¹⁵⁶⁵ (Lady Lettice PENISTON [6624] was born in 1481 in England,¹⁵⁴⁴ died in 1558 in England ¹⁵⁴⁴ and was buried in Rothwell, Northamptonshire, England ¹⁵⁴⁴.)