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The Knyvett Baronetcy, of Buckenham in the County of Norfolk, was a title in the
Baronetage of England Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. Baronetage of England (1611–1705) King James I ...
. It was created on 22 May 1611 for Philip Knyvett. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1699.George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage'' 1900
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Buckenham Castle Old Buckenham Castle and Buckenham Castle are two castles adjacent respectively to the villages of Old Buckenham and New Buckenham, Norfolk, England. Old Buckenham Castle All that remains today of what was a Norman castle are the remnants of t ...
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Buckenham Buckenham is a small village in the English county of Norfolk situated on the northern bank of the River Yare around south-east of Norwich. History Buckenham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for Bucca's homestea ...
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Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...
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Knyvett baronets, of Buckenham (1611)

*Sir Philip Knyvett, 1st Baronet (died 1655) *Sir Robert Knyvett, 2nd Baronet (died 1699)


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{{s-end Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England