Anne Ferrers married Sir Valentine Knightly. [1]
1542 After the dissolution of the monasteries, "the capital messuage of Offchurch was granted to Sir Edmund Knightley and Lady Ursula his wife, in tail male, with contingent remainder to his brother Sir Valentine, or to the right heirs of his mother. [fn. 20: L. and P. Hen. VIII, xvii, 285(6). In 1537 George Alysbury had written to Cromwell asking him 'to have me in remembrance to the king about the manor of Offchurch' (ibid. xii(2), 437).] At this date the premises included a chapel and burial-ground, a stone dovecote, the lofty hall of 'le Yate Howse Volte Porte', the buildings lying between the hall and the 'Frenche Walle', and several water from 'le vycars takkyng' beside 'le Conyngre' as far as Radford mere. Sir Edmund died within a year of this grant [fn. 21: Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), lxviii, 27; lxx, 23] but his widow seems to have had a life tenure, [fn. 22: Feet of F. Warw. East. 3 Eliz.] and in 1561-2 a fresh grant, in accordance with the terms of the one of 1542, was made to Sir Valentine Knightley. [fn. 23: Pat. 4 Eliz. pt. 4.] He bequeathed Offchurch to his fourth son Edward, [fn. 24: V.C.H. Northants. Families, 200, where the pedigree of the Offchurch branch of the Knightleys is dealt with in detail] who was dealing with the manor in 1585 [fn. 25: Feet of F. Warw. East. 27 Eliz.; Recov. R. East. 27 Eliz., ro. 1.] and 1604. [fn. 26: Feet of F. Warw. Mich. 2 Jas. I.] [2]
1564 In his will written 26 December, Sir Valentyne Knightley of Fawsley, Northampton, named Richard Knightley his eldest son and heir and one of his executors. He made provisions for his younger sons Edmund, Thomas (third), and Edward (youngest), all under age 22, and for his unmarried daughter Anne. He also mentioned his deceased father Richard. [3]
1565/66 Valentine Knightley died on March 8.
1566 The will of Valentine Knightley was proved on October 23. [4]
[1] Henry Norris, Baddesley Cinton, its manor, church and hall; with some account of the family of Ferrers from the Norman conquest to the present day (London and Leamington, Art and book company, 1897), 119, [HathiTrust].
[2] William Page and Louis Francis Salzman, A History of the County of Warwick: Knightlow hundred, Vol. 6 (Oxford University Press, 1951), 196, [BritishHistoryOnline], [Google_Snippet].
[3] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Crymes and Morrison, Prob 11/48/598, [UKNationalArchives].
[4] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Crymes and Morrison, Prob 11/48/598, [UKNationalArchives].