Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, after whom the state of Delaware is named. Catherine Knollys (21 October 1559 – 20 December 1620). Married first Gerald FitzGerald, Baron Offaly (son of Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare and Mabel Browne) and secondly Sir Phillip Butler, of Watton Woodhall. She was the mother of Lettice Digby, 1st Baroness Offaly. Cecily Knollys (c. 1560 - ?).No known descendants. Margaret Knollys. No known descendants. Dudley Knollys (9 May 1562 – June 1562) In literature The possibility that Catherine, and perhaps her brother Henry, were illegitimate children of Henry VIII, appears in many works of fiction, including Wendy J. Dunn's The Light in the Labyrinth and Philippa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl. Carey is also a character in Gregory's The Boleyn Inheritance, where she is sent to the royal court during the time of Queens Anne of Cleves and Catherine Howard, and in The Virgin's Lover, where, as the mother of the seventeen-year-old Lettice Knollys, she is among Elizabeth I's closest companions. In Henry VIII's Wives by Alison Prince, the book's narrator has a friend, Catherine "Kitty" Carey, whose father died of sweating sickness and whose mother is Mary Boleyn. In this book, Catherine was thought to be the king's daughter. Catherine is the featured subject in the novel Cor Rotto: A Novel of Catherine Carey by Adrienne Dillard and the young adult novel The Light in the Labyrinth by Wendy J. Dunn. Notes References External links English courtiers People of the Elizabethan era 1520s births 1569 deaths Burials at Westminster Abbey Ladies of the Bedchamber People from Rotherfield Greys People from Reading, Berkshire Mary Boleyn Catherine Knollys family Illegitimate children of Henry VIII of England 16th-century English women Court of Elizabeth I Household of Anne of Cleves Household of Catherine Howard Wives of knights