Dudley Knollys: Elizabethan Gender Identification

Recent investigation into the prominent Elizabethan family of Sir Francis Knollys and his wife Katherine Carey Knollys has shed new light on the identities of their children. New information regarding the identification of the Knollys children is offered, specifically of Dudley Knollys, born May 9,...

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Published in:Notes and queries 2018-03, Vol.65 (1), p.110-116
Main Authors: Bundesen, Kristin, Lawson, Jane
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Families & family life
Gender
Identity
Knollys, Francis
Knollys, Katherine Carey
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Summary:Recent investigation into the prominent Elizabethan family of Sir Francis Knollys and his wife Katherine Carey Knollys has shed new light on the identities of their children. New information regarding the identification of the Knollys children is offered, specifically of Dudley Knollys, born May 9, 1562, who lived less than two months and is represented as an infant effigy lying next to Katherine Carey Knollys on the Knollys funeral monument in St. Nicholas Church, Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire. The proposal is that Dudley Knollys was female, not male, and in conjunction with new analysis confirms that Francis Knollys and Katherine Carey Knollys had an equal number of daughters and sons, as designated on both their Rotherfield Greys monument and Katherine's Westminster Abbey plaque, although the monuments differ on whether the number was seven or eight.
ISSN:0029-3970
1471-6941
DOI:10.1093/notesj/gjx186