KNOWLES BIOGRAPHIES
Richard KNOLLES (1545
- 1610)
English Historian
England
Knowles Progenitor #56
(Northamptonshire)
based on article from
Wikipedia,
and Knowles research by Robert B. Noles
GENEALOGY
Daniel Knoles (c 1645 - ??) (of Delaware)
s/o Edward Knolles (c 1615 - ??)
s/o Edward Knolles (c 1585 - ??)
s/o Richard Knolles (c 1545 - 1610)
[England Progenitor #56 (Northamptonshire]
Richard Knolles (c. 1545 - July 1610) was an English historian.
A native of Northamptonshire, he was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, of
which he became a fellow. Some time after 1571, he left Oxford to become
master of a school at Sandwich, Kent, where he died in 1610. In 1603,
Knolles published his Generall Historie of the Turkes, of which several editions
subsequently appeared, among them Sir Paul Rycaut's edition (1700); Rycaut
brought the history down to 1699.
Knolles' original work was dedicated to King James I and VI, and Knolles availed
himself largely of Jean-Jacques Boissard's Vitae et Icones Sultanorum Turcicorum
(Frankfurt, 1596). Although now entirely superseded, it has considerable
merits of style and arrangement. Knolles also published a translation of
Jean Bodin's De Republica in 1606, but the Grammatica Latina, Graeca et Hebraica,
attributed to him by Anthony Wood and others, is the work of the Rev. Hanserd
Knollys (c. 1599-1691), a Baptist minister.
