William Knightley of Norwich - Parents? Take a crack at it!

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153547564/william-knightley

MyHieratage

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/157078585/person/2...

Ok I spelled the site MyHeritage wrong - sorry, my cat was trying to help.

So the ancestry tree offers yet another set of parents:

Family

Parents
Richard Knightley, Sheriff of Northampshire IV
1455–1534
Lady Johanna/Jane/Joan Skenard Knightly
1461–1539

Citing several records

Ancestry Family Trees
England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980
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Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812
UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
UK, Extracted Probate Records, 1269-1975

So let’s see if they validate the configuration.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168672667/thomas-knightley (Without citation) has

Sir Thomas Knightley of Bent, Staffordshire, England

Family Members
Parents
John Knightley
1417–1442
Children
Matthew Knightley
1485–1561
William Knightley
1486–1548

William Knightley
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Name: William Knightley
Event Type: Burial
Death Date: abt 1548
Burial Date: 13 Feb 1548
Burial Place: St Peter Parmentergate, Norwich, Norfolk, England

(Doesn’t help for Parents)

Again, not helping for parents

UK, Extracted Probate Records, 1269-1975
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Name: Knightley, Kinghtleye, William Wymer
Dates: 1548
Place: Norwich, Norfolk, England
Book: Marriages (Marriage)
Collection: Norfolk: Norwich - 1. Index to Wills, Consistory Court of Norwich, 1370-1550 2. Wills among the Norwich Enrolled Deeds, 1286-1508
Volume: Wills Proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich and now Preserved in the District Probate Registry at Norwich
Chapter: 1370 to 1550
Text: 1548 Knightley, Kinghtleye, William, Norwich, gent. 204 to 206 Wymer

https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=1610&h=1875404...

I tried! It crazy how many different "facts" are out on one person. I've run into this problem a lot. Good luck!

Fun, right?

So far I’m sticking with this source:

http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-19_f_102.pdf

SUMMARY: The document below is the Prerogative Court of Canterbury copy of the last will and testament, dated 1 May 1518 and proved 22 January 1519, of John Danyell, esquire, of Felsted, Essex, servant of John de Vere (1442-1513), 13th Earl of Oxford.

The testator’s nephews, ‘Doctor Knightley and William Knightley, his brother’, appear to have been the sons of Sir Thomas Knightley of Bent, Staffordshire. See: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168672667/thomas-knightley

The testator’s nephew, William Knightley (d. 27 January 1548?), married firstly Margaret Pawe, and secondly Agnes Hare. His daughter, Winifred Knightley, was the mother of Sir Edward Coke. See Boyer, Allen, D., Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), p. 2 at: https://books.google.ca/books?id=lkEv6eccC44C&pg=PA2

The “testator” must have been a (brother) of Margaret Knightley

I think you're right to stick with the will!

So apparently the Daniels were an “interesting” family.

Quite a bit about them here:

https://prattens.co.uk/THOMAS/THOMAS.HTML