![]() ![]() His father, Sir William, now nearing his seventieth year, still held the honorary post of chamberlain in the ducal household.Īll will be sorted out in good time, agreed Buckingham’s chaplain, Robert Gilbert, a tall, thin, hawk-nosed fellow with a deeply pocked face and intense black eyes. Knyvett’s mother had been a daughter of the first duke. Squarely built and florid-faced, with thinning hair and small, pale eyes, Knyvett had been in Buckingham’s service from childhood and was one of the few men he trusted, perhaps because they were also linked by blood. This latest news from the court pleases me, said Edward Stafford, third Duke of Buckingham, but my brother’s continued confinement in the Tower of London is worrisome."Ī mistake, surely, my lord, Charles Knyvett murmured. ![]() 1 Manor of the Rose, London, June 18, 1509 ![]()
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