Background
Thomas Knyvett was the first son of John Knyvett (died 1524) and Agnes, daughter of Sir John Harcore of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire.
Thomas Knyvett was the first son of John Knyvett (died 1524) and Agnes, daughter of Sir John Harcore of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire.
A native of Ashwellthorpe in Norfolk and Chance, Knyvett married Muriel Parry, daughter of Sir Thomas Parry, Comptroller of the Household to Queen Elizabeth I.
He was knighted in 1578 and created Lord High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1579. He failed to formally claim the title Baron Berners until 1616, when the office of the Earl Marshall certified his "right and title to the Barony of Berners", but he died shortly thereafter, before the new king James I could confirm the title. He was buried at Ashwellthorpe on 9 February 1616/7.
