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Anne Knollys
Born	1553
	probably Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire or Reading, Berkshire, England
Died	30 August 1608
	Lasham, Hampshire, England
Buried	St Edmund's Chapel, Westminster Abbey
Royal House	Tudor
Father	Sir Francis Knollys, Treasurer of the Royal Household
Mother	Catherine Carey

Anne Knollys (known, after her marriage, as Anne West, Lady De La Warr) (1553–30 August 1608) was a lady at the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Anne Knollys was the third daughter of Sir Francis Knollys, Treasurer of the Royal Household (1514–1596) to Queen Elizabeth I, and his wife Lady Catherine Carey.

Her maternal grandparents were Sir William Carey and Lady Mary Boleyn. Mary was a sister of Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England. Anne Knollys' mother was thus a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth, daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII.

On 19 November 1571 at Wherwell in Hampshire where they subsequently lived, she was married to Thomas West, 2nd Baron De La Warr, with whom she had thirteen children:

• Walsingham West, died young.
• Elizabeth West (b. 1573), married 1. Sir Hebert Pelham of Michelham; and 2. Richard Saltonstall.
• Robert West (b. 1574), married Elizabeth Coks. Predeceased his father.
• Margarey West (b. 1576), married Samuel Johnson.
• Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1577-1618), married Lady Cecily Shirley.
• Lettice West (b. 1579), married Sir Henry Ludlow.
• Anne West (b. 1581), married John Pellet (Esq.).
• Penelope West (b. 1582), married Herbert Pelham (Esq.).
• Catherine West (b. 1583), married Nickolas Strelby.
• Francis West, Governor of Virginia (b. 1586-1634), married 1. Lady Margaret Reeves; 2. Lady Jane Davye; and 3. Lady Temperance Flowerdew
• Helena West (b. 1587), married William Savage.
• John West, Governor of Virginia (1590-1659), married Lady Anne Percy.
• Nathaniel West, (Lt. Col.) (1592-1623), married Frances Greville.

• "The William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd Ser., Vol. 18, No. 1 (Jan., 1938), pp. 137–138"
• "Southside VA Families by John Bennett Boddie Vol 1, Genealogical Pub. 1955, pages 398–402"
• "De La Warr, Thomas West, 12th Baron." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007."
• "The Noble Lineage of the Delaware‑West Family of Virginia", by Ann Woodard Fox"
• "Colonial Virginia, by Richard L. Morton; University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1960, pp 123‑125"

• Anne Knollys
• Tudor Place: The West Family
• Knollys Geneology
• Knollys Heraldry