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Sir Thomas Knyvett (also Knevitt or Knivet or Knevet ), of Buckenham, Norfolk (c. 1485 – 10 August 1512) was a young English nobleman who was a close associate of King Henry VIII shortly after that monarch came to the throne.
Thomas Knyvet, 1st Baron Knyvet (/ n ɪ v ɪ t /; or Knevytt, Knyvett, Knevett, Knevitt; 1545 – 27 July 1622) was an English courtier and Member of Parliament who played a part in foiling the Gunpowder Plot.
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Learn about the plot to kill King James I and his Parliament in 1605, involving Sir Thomas Knyvett and other Catholic noblemen. Explore original documents, sources and activities from The National Archives.
Sir Thomas Knyvett was a peer and a former MP who discovered Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot in 1605. He was a keeper of Whitehall and Westminster Palaces and a friend of Edmund Doubleday, who helped him arrest Fawkes.
Thomas Knyvett, 5th Baron Berners. Arms of Knyvett: Argent, a bend sable a bordure engrailed of the last. Thomas Knyvett (1596–1658) was an English JP and Royalist during the English Civil War.
KNYVETT (KNEVETT), Sir Thomas (c.1545-1622), of St. James's Park, King Street West, Westminster, and Stanwell, Mdx. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010. Available from Cambridge University Press.
