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Not to be confused with Anthony Knyvett (Black Rod) (c. 1486–1549). For the pirate and slave trader see Anthony Knivet (fl. 1560–1649).

Anthony Knyvett (d. 1 March 1554) was an English rebel during the reign of Mary I of England.

He was born in London, the son of Charles Knyvett.

His father had been in the retinue of his kinsman, the Duke of Buckingham and John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, the Deputy of Calais.

He was the son of Charles Knyvett (son of Sir William Knyvett) by his wife Anne Lacy (d .1562), the daughter and heiress of Walter Lacy of London by his wife Lucy. His uncle, Sir Edward Knyvet in his will proved 10 December 1528 instructed his executors "to bring up young Antony Knyvet, my nephew son of my brother Charles Knyvet deceased".

It is thought that he may have been involved in the fraud created by Elizabeth Crofts:

The xxx vj day of julij waſ a goodly sermon on of the prebendareſ of powll{s} & ther waſ a nuw skaffold mayd ther for y mayd y spake in y wall & wystelyd in althergatstret & she sayd openly y yt waſ on john̄ drakeſ S antony knevett suand & she whept petefully & she knelyd & askyd god mercy & y quen & bad all pepull be ware of ffalsse thechyng for she sayd that she shuld haue many goodly thyng{s} gyffyn her

In 1554, he joined Wyatt's Rebellion together with his brother William:

On the other parte, Sir Henrie Iſley, An|thonie Kneuet, and his brother Willyam Kne|uet being at Tunbridge, proclaymed the She|rife, the Lorde of Burgueuennie, and George Clarke Gentlemanne, traytours to God, the Crowne, and the Common wealth, for reyſing the Queenes Subiectes, to defende the moſte wicked and diueliſhe enterpriſe of certayne of the wicked and perueſe Counſaylors. And this they pronounced in their owne names, and in the names of Sir Thomas Wyat, Sir George Harper, and of all the faithfull Gentle|men of Kent, and truſtie Commons of the ſame.

They were routed at the Battle of Hartley. The diarist Henry Machyn wrote that he and his brother were taken to the Tower on Ash Wednesday:

Thys was done on As-Wedynsday the furst yere of quen Mare of England; and the sam nyght to the Towre ser Thomas Wyatt, master Cobham, and master Vane, and ij Knewetes and odur captaynes.

By 22 February 1554 the brothers had been tried and condemned to death. On ‘Wenisdaie the XXVIIIth of Februarye’ William and Anthony Knyvet who had been among the leaders of Sir Thomas Wyatt’s rising ‘went down by water in a bardge towarde Kent to be put to death’.

According to John Proctor, Anthony Knevet, William his brother, and one of the Mantels were executed at Sevenoaks.

A modern source gives the exact date as 1 March 1554.

There has been a lot of confusion between him and his kinsman by the same name, but in his statement in Wyatt's rebellion in 1554 this Anthony Knyvett signs himself Anthony Knyvet, esq. Hence, he was never knighted, and all references of the period to a Sir Anthony Knyvet(t) or Anthony Knyvet, knight, must necessarily be the other one. Furthermore, Shaw, William Arthur; Burtchaell, George Dames (1906). The Knights of England. A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland lists only the knighting of one Anthony Knyvet, who was Porter of Calais. This must necessarily be the Black Rod. And then the Black Rod was also the Porter of Calais.

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