William Knight (bishop)
William Knight (1475/6 – 1547) was the Secretary of State to Henry VIII of England, and Bishop of Bath and Wells.
Knight was sent to Rome in 1527 to try to get Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled. He rebuilt Horton Court in Gloucestershire using ideas from Italian architecture.
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Famous quotes containing the word knight:
“By a knight of ghosts and shadows
I summon’d am to a tourney
Ten leagues beyond the wide world’s end:
Methinks it is no journey.”
—Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 57–60)