Ancestry of
Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

John Knyvet

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• • 12th Great-grandfather of Angela Y. Davis — 15th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 20174 
  • Father:
  • Edmund Knyvet 
  • Mother:
  • Jane Bourchier   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1517 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 6 Oct 1551 to 31 Dec 1555 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Agnes Harcourt
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 14 Feb 1537 
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  Thomas Knyvet

  Edmund Knyvet

  Henry Knyvet

  Elizabeth Knyvet

  Abigail Knyvet (Ahnentafel No:10087 )

• Sources for John Knyvet

  • ¹ Burke, John and John Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England. Ireland, and Scotland, 2nd ed., London: Scott, Webster, and Geary (1841), 294.
  • ² Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 2, pp. 190-191.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 182, 847.
  • ⁴ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 8.
  • ⁵ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 26.

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