Thomas Knyvett, 4th Baron Berners

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Sir Thomas Knyvett (1539-1616?) was the High Sheriff of the English county of Norfolk in 1579.

Thomas was the first son of John Knyvett (d. 1524) and Agnes the daughter of Sir John Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire. Knyvett was a native of Ashwellthorpe in Norfolk, and married Muriel Parry, the daughter of Sir Thomas Parry. He was knighted in 1578 and inherited the Ashwellthorpe estates from Jane Bourchier, who was his grandmother. He was buried at Ashwellthorp on February 9th, 1617/1618. It is stated that he unsuccessfully claimed the title of Lord Berners.

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• E. T. B., Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press 1892