POYNINGS FAMILY
Father: Reginald De PIERREPONT
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
Born: ABT 1100
Died: BEF 1148
Father: William De POYNINGS
Mother: ¿?
Married: Beatrix ?
Children:
2. William De POYNINGS
3. John De POYNINGS (b. ABT 1128 - d. AFT 1147)
Father: Adam De POYNINGS
Mother: Beatrix ?
Married: William De CHENEY (Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk)
Children:
1. Margaret (Margery) De CHENEY
Born: ABT 1126, Poynings, Sussex, England
Died: BEF 29 Sep 1202
Father: Adam De POYNINGS
Mother: Beatrix ?
Married: ¿?
Children:
Born: ABT 1160, Poynings, Sussex, England
Died: BEF 1243
Father: Adam De POYNINGS
Mother: ¿?
Married: Margaret ? BEF Jul 1206
Children:
Born: ABT 1202, Poynings, Sussex, England
Died: BEF 24 Sep 1272
Father: Michael De POYNINGS
Mother: Margaret ?
Married: Ela De AGUILLON BEF 1240
Children:
Died: BEF 1295, Wrentham, Suffolk, England
Father: Thomas De POYNINGS
Mother: Ela De AGUILLON
Married: Hawise ?
Children:
1. Michael De POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
2. Thomas De POYNINGS (b. ABT 1275 - d. AFT 1308)
Michael De POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Born: ABT 1270, Poynings, Sussex, England
Died: 24 Jun 1314, Battle of Bannockburn, Scotland
Father: Luke De POYNINGS (Sir)
Mother: Hawise ?
Married: Margery De AGUILLON BEF 8 Jun 1298
Children:
1. Thomas De POYNINGS (1º B. Poynings)
Born: ABT 1296, Goring, Sussex, England
Notes: some sources says she was the sister, and not the dau. of Sir Michael Poynings.
Father: Michael De POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Mother: Margery De AGUILLON
Married: Thomas De TREGOZ (3º B. Tregoz) (b. ABT 1292) (son of Henry De Tregoz, 2º B. Tregoz, and Margaret De Goring) ABT 1316
Children:
1. Margaret De TREGOZ (b. ABT 1318) (m. John D'Oily)
Born: ABT 1296, Poynings, Sussex, England
Died: 30 Mar 1347, Calais, Pas-de-Calais, Picardie, France
Notes: of Beams Manor Near, Reading, Berkshire, England. He led a retinue in the Crécy-Calais expedition of 1346-47, in which he was killed.
Father: Michael De POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Mother: Margery De AGUILLON
Born: ABT 1298
Died: AFT 30 Mar 1347
Father: Michael De POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Mother: Margery De AGUILLON
Married 1: Edmund BACON (Sir)
Children:
1. Margery BACON
Married 2: John De DALTON (Sir Knight)
Thomas De POYNINGS (1º B. Poynings)
Born: ABT 1300
Died: 10 Oct 1339, Honnecourt Castle, St. Quintin, Cambridgeshire, England
Notes: He was a follower of the Warenne Earls of Surrey, leading a sub-retinue. It seems that the sheer frequency with which he, his brother, and his son went off to fight had the effect of attracting a group of knights who accompanied them on campaign after campaign.
Father: Michael De POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Mother: Margery De AGUILLON
Marriage: Agnes De ROKESLEY (b. BEF 1299) (dau. of Richard De Rokesley and Joan De Criol) ABT 1317
Children:
1. Michael POYNINGS (2º B. Poynings)
3. Thomas De POYNINGS
4. John De POYNINGS
5. Nicholas De POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
6. Richard De POYNINGS
Nicholas De POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Born: ABT 1334
Father: Thomas De POYNINGS (1º B. Poynings)
Mother: Agnes De ROKESLEY
Married: Jane TALBOT ABT 1358, Wyke, Cornwall, England
Children:
1. Richard De POYNINGS
Born: ABT 1322
Died: Jun 1376
Buried: Warnford, Hampshire, England
Notes: second son. He used the Poynynges arms Barry Or and Vert a bend Gules charged with an annulet for difference. His will, dated 5 Jun 1376, was proved at Farnham 4 Jul 1376. He left legacies to his wife Isabel, his son Thomas and his grandson Luke.
Father: Thomas De POYNINGS (1º B. Poynings)
Mother: Agnes De ROKESLEY
Married: Isabel St. JOHN 10 Nov 1348
Children:
1. Thomas De POYNINGS (1º B. St. John of Basing)
Died: 30 May 1394
Father: Luke De POYNINGS
Mother: Isabel St. JOHN
Married: Henry FERRERS (4° B. Ferrers of Groby) Apr 1371, Groby, Leicestershire, England
Thomas De POYNINGS (1º B. St. John of Basing)
Born: 1350, Basing, Hampshire, England
Died: 7 Mar 1429, Basing, Hampshire, England
Father: Luke De POYNINGS
Mother: Isabel St. JOHN
Married 1: Joan Le STRANGE 1372, Basing, Hampshire, England
Children:
2. Hugh De POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
3. Isabel De POYNINGS (b. 1385 - d. AFT 1428)
Married 2: Philippa De MORTIMER (C. Pembroke / C. Arundel) (d. 24 Sep 1401) (dau. of Edmund Mortimer, 3º E. March, and Phillippa Plantagenet) (w.1 of John Hastings, 3° E. Pembroke - w.2 of Richard Fitzalan, 6º E. Arundel) Nov 1399, Basing, Hampshire, England
Married 3: Margaret LORING (dau. of Nigel Loring and Margaret Beaupel) (w. of Thomas Peyvre) ABT 1400
Married 4: Maud De MAULEY (d. 3 Jun 1453) (m.2 Hugh Halsham) Apr 1415, Basing, Hampshire, England
Born: BEF Jun 1376
Died: BEF 14 Feb 1394
Notes: He was living 21 Nov 1381 when his father Sir Thomas de Ponynigs was appointed his guardian. He died before 1394, when his father and brother Hugh gave recognizances to Richard de St. Maure, knight. It is unlikely that Luke's father and younger brother would be associated if Luke were then living.
Father: Thomas De POYNINGS (1º B. St. John of Basing)
Mother: Joan Le STRANGE
Born: ABT 1380
Died: BEF 1428
Notes: He had a license to impark land in Halnaker on 7 Mar 1404. He was living 27 Nov 1427, when he entered in a settlement for the marriage of his daughter Constance to John Paulet, a marriage which was to take place before Septuagesima (31 Jan 1427/28). He died in his father's lifetime, before 10 Feb 1428, when his wife is described as "Eleanor, late the wife of Hugh Ponynges knight".
Father: Thomas De POYNINGS (1º B. St. John of Basing)
Mother: Joan Le STRANGE
Married 1: Eleanor De FERRERS ABT 1400, Newton Ferrers, Devonshire, England
Children:
Married 2: Eleanor De WELLES BEF 1408
Children:
Born: ABT 1400
Died: BEF 1429
Notes: her son was one of the co-heirs of Thomas, lord St. John, her grand father.
Father: Hugh De POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Mother: Eleanor De FERRERS
Married: Thomas BONVILLE of Halnaker (Sir) (b. BET 1393 / 1397 - d. 7 Feb 1465) (son of John Bonville and Elizabeth Fitzroger) (m.2 Leva Gorges) BEF 1 Aug 1407
Children:
1. John BONVILLE of Halnaker (Sir) (b. 1413) (m.1 of Joan Wydbury - m.2 Catherine Wingfield)
Born: 1408, Monney, Somersetshire, England
Died: 27 Nov 1442
Buried: 6 Jan 1442/43, Lowick, Northamptonshire, England
Notes: one of three co-heirs of her grandfather Thomas Ponynges, Lord St. John. At her first marriage about 1427 the manors of Basing, etc., were settled on her. There is a monument to her at Nunney.
Father: Hugh De POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Mother: Eleanor De WELLES
Married 1: John PAULET BET 27 Nov 1427 / 31 Jan 1428
Children:
1. John PAULET
2. William PAULET (b. 1429 - d. 1443)
Married 2: Henry GREENE of Drayton (Esq.) (b. ABT 1404 - d. Feb 1466/7) (m.2 Margaret De Ros) May 1439
Children:
3. Anne GREENE
Born: 1409
Notes: third daughter and a co-heir of her grandfather.
Father: Hugh De POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Mother: Eleanor De WELLES
Married 1: John ORRELL
Children:
1. Dau. ORRELL
2. Dau. ORRELL
Married 2: Thomas KINGSTON
Children:
3. Son KINGSTON
4. Dau. KINGSTON
Michael De POYNINGS (2º B. Poynings)
Born: ABT 1317, Poynings, Sussex, England
Died: 7 Mar 1369
Notes: also known as Miles de Poynings. Like his father, he was a retainer of the Warenne Earls of Surrey, and later of their heirs, the FitzAlan Earls of Arundel. In consideration of the merits of his father, who died in the attack on Honnecourt, Sir Michael was allowed to inherit his estates while still a minor. He accompanied his uncle, another Sir Michael de Poynings on the Crécy-Calais expedition of 1346-47. He was the first of his family to be summoned to Parliament. He made his will in Sep 1368, leaving 200 marks for the rebuilding of the church at Poynings. At the time of his death he held the manors of Poynings, Pangden, Perching, Hangleton, West Dean, Twineham, Waldron, Crawley, and Slaugham (Sussex); Terlingham, Newington, Bertram, Westwood, Eastwell, and Horsmonden (Kent); Wrentham (Suffolk); Wilton (Norfolk); and La Lee and La Gore, by Lavington (Wiltshire). He was guardian of William Bardolf his future son-in-law.
Father: Thomas De POYNINGS (1º B. Poynings)
Mother: Agnes De ROKESLEY
Marriage: Joan De ROKESLEY (B. Poynings) (dau. of Richard De Rokesley) ABT 1350
Children:
3. Thomas De POYNINGS (3º B. Poynings)
4. Richard De POYNINGS (4º B. Poynings)
Born: 1348, Slaugham, Sussex, England
Died: BEF 20 Mar 1378/9
Father: Michael De POYNINGS (2º B. Poynings)
Mother: Joan De ROKESLEY (B. Poynings)
Married: John De GREY ABT 1369, Rotherfield, Oxfordshire, England
Born: 1351
Died: AFT Jun 1383
Father: Michael De POYNINGS (2º B. Poynings)
Mother: Joan De ROKESLEY (B. Poynings)
Married: William De ATON
Born: ABT 1360, Slaugham, Sussex, England
Died: 12 Jun 1403
Buried: Trinity Priory, Aldgate, London, Middlesex, England
Father: Michael De POYNINGS (2º B. Poynings)
Mother: Joan De ROKESLEY (B. Poynings)
Married 1: William BARDOLF (4º B. Bardolf) (b. 21 Oct 1349 - d. 29 Jan 1385/6) ABT 1368, Birling, Sussex, England
Children:
1. Cecily BARDOLF (b. ABT 1375 - d. 29 Sep 1432) (m. Brian Stapleton of Ingham)
2. Thomas BARDOLF (5º B. Bardolf) (m. Avice Cromwell)
Married 2: Thomas MORTIMER (Sir)
Thomas De POYNINGS (3º B. Poynings)
Born: ABT 1353
Died: BEF 1375
Notes: held the manor of Dedisham and was a follower of the FitzAlan Earls of Arundel. An inquisition held at Selby found that the lands which Blanche de Mowbray held by gift of her brother reverted on her death to his heir, her great-nephew John Mowbray.
Father: Michael De POYNINGS (2º B. Poynings)
Mother: Joan De ROKESLEY (B. Poynings)
Married: Blanche De MOWBRAY (B. Poynings) (d. 26 Jul 1409) (dau. of John Mowbray, B. Thirsk and Joan Plantagenet) (w. of John Seagrave - m.3 John De Worthe - m.4 John Wiltshire) BEF 1375
Richard De POYNINGS (4º B. Poynings)
Born: ABT 1355
Died: 25 May 1387, Villalpando, Zamora, Spain
Notes: held the manor of West Dean, Sussex. He was knighted by Richard II at his coronation on 16 July 1377. He accompanied John of Gaunt on an expedition to Spain and died there.
Father: Michael De POYNINGS (2º B. Poynings)
Mother: Joan De ROKESLEY (B. Poynings)
Married: Isabel De GREY
Children:
1. Robert POYNINGS (5º B. Poynings)
Born: ABT 1396
Notes: She was apparently a benefactor of the parish church of St. George's at Trotton in Sussex, where she is shown in a wall painting of a donor scene together with her husband and father-in-law. The same wall also shows a tree supporting the Poynings' crest of a dragon, beside the Poynings' badge of a crowned key. The use of a tree in this way is unique in English art.
Father: Richard De POYNINGS (4º B. Poynings)
Mother: Isabel De GREY
Married: Richard CAMOYS (b. ABT 1396 - d. BEF 1421) (son of Thomas Camoys and Elizabeth Louches)
Children:
1. Eleanor CAMOYS (b. 1408 - d. 14 Oct 1478)(m. Roger Lewknor)
2. Jane CAMOYS
3. Hugh CAMOYS (3º B. Camoys)
4. Margaret CAMOYS
Robert POYNINGS (5º B. Poynings)
Born: 3 Dec 1382, Okeford, Fitzpaine, Dorset, England
Died: 2 Oct 1446, Orleans, France
Father: Richard De POYNINGS (4º B. Poynings)
Mother: Isabel De GREY
Married 1: Elizabeth (Eleanor) GREY ABT 1400
Children:
2. Robert POYNINGS (6º B. Poynings)
3. Edward POYNINGS (Master of Arundell College)
Married 2: Margaret SQUERY (B. Poynings) (d. 3 Nov 1448) (dau. of Thomas Squery) (w. of Sir William Crowmer, Lord Mayor of London) ABT Jun 1434
4. Richard POYNINGS
Born: ABT 1400, Yorkshire, England
Died: 10 Jun 1429, Orleans, France
Notes: killed near Orleans.
Father: Robert POYNINGS (5º B. Poynings)
Mother: Elizabeth (Eleanor) GREY
Married: Eleanor BERKELEY (C. Arundel) ABT Apr 1421, Beverstone, Gloucestershire, England
Children:
1. Eleanor POYNINGS (B. Poynings)
Eleanor POYNINGS (B. Poynings)
Born: ABT 1422
Died: 21 Sep 1480 / Feb 1483/1484, Raby Castle, Staindrop, Durham, England
Father: Richard POYNINGS (Sir)
Mother: Eleanor BERKELEY (C. Arundel)
Married: Henry PERCY (3° E. Northumberland) ABT 25 Jun 1435
Children:
1. Eleanor PERCY (b. ABT 1455)
2. Henry PERCY (4º E. Northumberland)
3. Anne PERCY
5. Ralph PERCY (b. ABT 1440)
6. Elizabeth PERCY (B. Scrope of Bolton)
7. Mary PERCY
Robert POYNINGS (6º B. Poynings)
Born: 3 Dec 1382, Okeford, FitzPaine, Dorset, England
Died: 2 Oct 1446, Orleans, France
Notes: Twin of Edward. Lord Poynings. Carver and sword bearer to Jack Cade.
Father: Robert POYNINGS (5º B. Poynings)
Mother: Elizabeth (Eleanor) GREY
Married: Elizabeth PASTON
Children:
1. Edward POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Born: 1459 / 1465, Poynings, Sussex, England
Died: Oct 1521, Westenhangar, Kent, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Robert POYNINGS (6º B. Poynings)
Mother: Elizabeth PASTON
Married: Elizabeth SCOTT (d. 15 Aug 1528) (dau. of Sir John Scott, Marshal of Calais)
Children:
1. John POYNINGS
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Children:
2. Thomas POYNINGS (1º B. Poynings)
3. Mary (Joan) POYNINGS (B. Clinton of Marstoke)
Associated with: ¿?
Children:
4. Adrian POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Associated with: ¿?
Children:
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Children:
9. Francis POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Died: 1547
Notes: slain at Bolougne. In Aug 1545 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, was sent to the relief of Edward Poynings, then in command of Boulogne.
Father: Edward POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Mother: ¿?
Father: Edward POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Mother: ¿?
Married: Edmund BARRY of Sunnington
Father: Edward POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Mother: ¿?
Married: Thomas WILFORD (Sir)
Father: Edward POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Mother: ¿?
Married: Robert LUKENORE
Mary (Joan) POYNINGS (B. Clinton of Marstoke)
Born: ABT 1482, Poynings, Sussex, England
Died: AFT 7 Nov 1533
Father: Edward POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Mother: ¿?
Married: Thomas CLINTON FIENNES (8º B. Clinton of Marstoke) 4 May 1510, Folkestone, Kent, England
Children:
1. Edward CLINTON FIENNES (1º E. Lincoln)
2. Barbara CLINTON FIENNES
3. Isabel CLINTON FIENNES
Married 2: Robert WINGFIELD (Sir Knight) 4 Jul 1519
Born: ABT 1492, Betchworth, Surrey, England
Died: BEF May 1539
Father: Edward POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Mother: ¿?
Married: Jane BROWNE
Thomas POYNINGS (1º B. Poynings)
Acceded: 30 Jan 1544/5
Died: 18 Aug 1544/5, Boulogne sur Mer, France
Notes: Sheriff of Kent. Marshal of Calais. Military commander. He married Catherine, daughter and co-heir of John, 2nd Lord Marney and the widow of George Ratcliffe, sometime before 1539. Catherine inherited land in the west country and Poynings began to acquire additional land in Wiltshire, Cornwall and Somerset, as well as exchanging Westenhanger for a grant of monastic land in Dorset (including Bindon Abbey). In the 1540s, he served Henry VIII as Marshal of Calais and keeper of the castle at Guînes, then took an active role in the invasion of France in 1544, in particular at Montreuil and the sieges of Boulogne. On 30 Jan 1545, Poynings was raised to the peerage as Baron Poynings and appointed Lieutenant of Boulogne.
Father: Edward POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Mother: ¿?
Married: Catherine MARNEY 19 May 1532
Born: ABT 1515, Ghent, Netherlands
Died: 1571, Wherwell, Hants
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Edward POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Mother: ¿?
Married: Mary WEST
Children:
1. Son POYNINGS (d.v.p.)
3. Elizabeth POYNINGS
4. Mary POYNINGS
Died: 1590
Father: Adrian POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
Mother: Mary WEST
Married: George MORE of Loseley (Sir Knight) (See his Biography)
Children:
1. Mary MORE (m. Nicholas Throckmorton)
2. Robert MORE (Sir)
3. Son MORE
4. Son MORE
5. Son MORE
6. Anne MORE (m. John Donne)
7. Dau. MORE
8. Dau. MORE
9. Dau. MORE