plus Cnolle, Knoell, Knoll,
Knolles, Knollys, Knowels, Knowells, Knowle
Nowel, Nowels, and Nowell
and many others
According to oral history from some family historians,
the earliest known progenitor with the KNOWLES family name was Sir Thomas
Knowles, who attended King Richard I in his Crusades to the Holy Land toward the
end of the twelfth century A.D., but the documentation for this is not complete.
Among the earliest definitive records of the surname in England are those of
Roger de la Knolle of Devonshire in 1273; John Cnolle of Dorsetshire, and
Robert de la Cnolle of County Sussex. About the same time there was John
Knolle, who resided near the border of Wales and at a slightly later date,
Walter atte Cnolle and Roger de Knolle of Somersetshire in 1327. Then there was
Sir Robert Knolles of County Norfolk in the latter half of the fourteenth
century, from whom were descended the Earls of Banbury and other illustrious
lines. Baldwin Knolles of Dorsetshire, before 1376 was the father of
Roger, who had a son named Richard Knolles. Cecilia de Knoll, Johannes or
John Knoll and Thomas de Knoll of Yorkshire in 1379. And Robert de Knollys
of Yorkshire in the year 1397. The aforementioned bearers of the surname
of interest here have been, for the most part, of the landed gentry and educated
class of England.
[from: "The Name and Family of Knowles", by Roots
Research Bureau, LTD (1984)]
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