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Thomas Knyvet

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 13, 2024
Entity authorityQ7791588 ↗
Source-derived summary

Thomas Knyvet or Knyvett is the name of:

Thomas Knyvett (died 1512), English nobleman

Thomas Knyvett (died 1569), MP for Brackley (UK Parliament constituency), Bramber and Plymouth

Thomas Knyvett, 4th Baron Berners (1539–1616), English nobleman

Thomas Knyvet, 1st Baron Knyvet (1558–1622), English nobleman, MP for Westmorland and Westminster

Thomas Knyvett College, in Ashford, Surrey, England

Thomas Knyvet (died 1605), MP for Aldeburgh and Thetford

Thomas Knyvett (parliamentary official) (died 1637), English parliamentary officer

Thomas Knyvett, 5th Baron Berners (1598–1658), JP and Royalist

Thomas Knyvett, 7th Baron Berners (c.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1512, 1569, 1539, 1616—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Thomas, Knyvet and Wikimedia.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 13, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7791588. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1512, 1569, 1539 and 1616.

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This entry incorporates text from “Thomas Knyvet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.