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From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <>
Subject: Re: Fw: Knollys
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 22:32:40 +0100
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In message <052101c0ef0d$0f859580$>
(T Stanford M S P F Mommaerts-Meulemans-Browne) wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rosie Bevan" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, 06 June, 2001 10:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Knollys
>
>
> | Hi Tim
> |
> | You are absolutely right. I took a look at Shaw and Sir Robert Knolles
> | d.1407 definitely wasn't a KG. Seems to have been awarded it
> posthumously!!
>
> I don't believe that the Garter is awarded posthumously. Membership is
> limited to a specific number of living members. I could be wrong, though.
> Does anyone else know for certain sure?
>

I suspect Rosie was meaning that some "historian" had wrongly given him
KG after his death when he was not entitled to it. Another example is
Ruvigny who wrongly awarded Henry Pole a KG in his Clarence volume of
the Plantagenet Roll series.

But you are quite right, no-one got the garter after his death. Though
I am not sure about those who were nominated for KG and then died before
they were invested.

--
Tim Powys-Lybbe
For a patchwork of bygones: http://powys.org


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