Ancestry of
Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

Edmund Knyvet

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• • 14th Great-grandfather of Angela Y. Davis — 17th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 80696 
  • Father:
  • William Knyvet 
  • Mother:
  • Alice Grey   
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1504 
  • Death Location:
  • at sea 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Eleanor Tyrrel
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  Thomas Knyvet

  Edmund Knyvet (Ahnentafel No:40348 )

  Christopher Knyvet

  Anthony Knyvet

  James Knyvet

  William Knyvet

  Margaret Knyvet

  Dorothy Knyvet

  Anne Knyvet

  • Notes: 

  • Sir Edmund Knyvet died in a sea fight.

• Sources for Edmund 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 Lee, Sidney, ed., Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 11, Kennett-Lluelyn, New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Smith, Elder, and Co. (1909), 339.
  • ³ 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. 189-190.
  • 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), 177.

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