I am honoured to be descended from Sir Rainald de Baliol, c 1040-Aft. 1086 Lord of Knightley, and Sheriff of Shropshire under Earl Roger of Montgomery.

Mark Noble, an English clergyman, biographer and antiquary. (1787) wrote of the de Knightley family There is no private family in the kingdom has given more knights; none which has been more numerous in its branches; some of them have almost rivalled the eldest in consequence, and that fettled in France surpassed them, having many centuries ago been declared noble; the alliances they have contracted have been equal to themselves, and the many high offices held by them in the state, have been exceeded only by the very large possessions they have constantly had.

The Knightley family are of Norman descent namely Baron, Rainald de Balliol or Baillul, who accompanied William Duke of Normandy across the channel in 1066, one side of the family derived their name from the manor of Knightley, in Staffordshire, they first made Fawsley, Northamptonshire, their country seat in 1416, the estate by 1750 was over thirteen thousand acres containing five villages known as the Knightley parishes or Benefice which were the villages of Badby, Charwelton, Fawsley, Newnham and Preston Capes, at one time my family was the owner of 88 other manors in England.

I am honoured to be descended from Sir Rainald de Baliol, c 1040-Aft. 1086 Lord of Knightley, and Sheriff of Shropshire under Earl Roger of Montgomery.

Mark Noble, an English clergyman, biographer and antiquary. (1787) wrote of the de Knightley family There is no private family in the kingdom has given more knights; none which has been more numerous in its branches; some of them have almost rivalled the eldest in consequence, and that fettled in France surpassed them, having many centuries ago been declared noble; the alliances they have contracted have been equal to themselves, and the many high offices held by them in the state, have been exceeded only by the very large possessions they have constantly had.

The Knightley family are of Norman descent namely Baron, Rainald de Balliol or Baillul, who accompanied William Duke of Normandy across the channel in 1066, one side of the family derived their name from the manor of Knightley, in Staffordshire, they first made Fawsley, Northamptonshire, their country seat in 1416, the estate by 1750 was over thirteen thousand acres containing five villages known as the Knightley parishes or Benefice which were the villages of Badby, Charwelton, Fawsley, Newnham and Preston Capes, at one time my family was the owner of 88 other manors in England.