Elizabeth Knollys

North Mymms History Project A short history of the Knolles and Frowick families link

Robert Knolles married Elizabeth Troutbeck of Dunham, Cheshire, widow of Sir Hugh Venables and daughter of Sir William Troutbeck, Chamberlain of Chester. Elizabeth's brother, Sir John Troutbeck, was killed at the battle of Blore Heath in 1459 (the first battle of the War of the Roses), fighting on the Lancastrian side. Robert and Elizabeth had four children, two boys who died young, as represented on the brass memorial in the chancel of St Mary's Church at North Mymms, and two daughters, Anne, who married Henry Frowick, and Elizabeth who married James Stracheley.

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The Knolles Family Monumental Brasses 15C St Mary's Church North Mymms. A guide to St Mary's Church has the following note about the monumental brass west of the Priest's Door in the Chancel dedicated to the Knolles family. “Robert Knolles, Esq., and his wife Elizabeth 1458.” The effigy in armour is lost and the two daughters (or sons?) are headless. The lady is in the period dress and at her feet has a lap dog with a collar and bells. It will be noticed that the date of death of Robert, on the inscription, is left blank, inferring that he survived his wife. The memorial was completed in 1818 when R. Clutterbuck wrote the history of the county.

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Elizabeth was alive until at least 1580 as she was named in property transactions to do with the Knolles holdings in London. [1]

Whether she was actually a Troutbeck or not can not be satisfactorily resolved with the available sources.

References

1. D J Keene and Vanessa Harding. "All Hallows Honey Lane 11/8," in Historical Gazetteer of London Before the Great Fire Cheapside; Parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St Martin Pomary, St Mary Le Bow, St Mary Colechurch and St Pancras Soper Lane, (London: Centre for Metropolitan History, 1987), 48-78. British History Online, accessed June 28, 2020, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-gazetteer-pre-fir.... “… Knolles entered into a further bond of £500 to Fisher and Cornburgh to perform these covenants, and that Elizabeth his wife would seal and acknowledge his quitclaims; if all this was done, both bonds, of £500 and the original £100, were to be void. This seems to have been done, and the quitclaims enrolled.”