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Richard de Poynings

Male Abt 1355 - 1387  (~ 32 years)


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  • Name Richard de Poynings 
    Born Abt 1355 
    Gender Male 
    Died 25 May 1387  Villalpando, Zamora, Castilla y León, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5959  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Michael de Poynings,   b. Abt 1317,   d. 7/07 Mar 1368/9  (Age ~ 52 years) 
    Mother Joan,   d. 16 May 1369 
    Married Abt 1348 
    Family ID F2548  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Isabel Fitz Payn,   d. 11 Apr 1394 
    Children 
     1. Robert de Poynings,   d. 2 Oct 1446
     2. Joan Poynings,   d. Aft 24 Jun 1416
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2547  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “RICHARD DE POYNINGS, Knt., 3rd Lord Poynings, 2nd son, born about 1355. He married ISABEL FITZ PAYN, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz Payn (formerly de Grey), by Elizabeth, daughter of Guy de Bryan [see CODNOR 11.ii for her ancestry]. She was born about 1362 (stated to be thirty years of age 16 Ric. 11 (1392/3)). They had one son, Robert, Knt. [4th Lord Poynings], and one daughter, Joan. He was heir in 1375 to his older brother, Thomas de Poynings, 2nd Lord Poynings. He was heir in 1376-7 to his cousin, William Baud, Knt., by which he inherited the manor of Ruxley, Kent. He was knighted in 1377 by the king before the banquet in Westminster Hall at the Coronation of King Richard II. He was going abroad in the company of John de Arundel in 1377. He presented to the church of Hockwold, Norfolk in 1381, 1382, and 1385. He was summoned to Parliament from 7 Jan. 1382/3 to 3 Sept. 1385. In 1385 he was summoned for service against the Scots. He accompanied John of Gaunt to Spain in 1386. SIR RICHARD DE POYNINGS, 3rd Lord Poynings, died at Villalpando in Leon in Spain 25 May 1387. He left a will dated 10 June 1387, proved 26 Sept. 1387, directing burial in the parish church of Poynings, Sussex, on the right side of the tomb of his brother, Thomas, Lord Poynings. His widow, Isabel, was removed from Court in Jan. 1388. She died 11 April 1394.
      Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 286-287. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 2 (1805): 186. Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1(1826): 122-123 (will of Richard de Poynings, 3rd Lord Poynings). Ireland Hist. of the County of Kent 4 (1830): 529-530. Rye Cal. of Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 254. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-49. C.P. 10 (1945): 662-663 (sub Poynings) (gives Isabel's mother as Elizabeth, daughter of Guy de Bryan, Knt., of Walwyn's Castle, Pembroke, Torbrian, Devon, and Laugharne, co. Carmarthen, and, in her issue, co-heiress of her brother Guy (de Bryan), Lord Bryan; C.P. 2 (1912): 361-362 shows that this is not possible). Tuck Richard II & the English Nobility (1974): 182.
      Children of Richard de Poynings, Knt., by Isabel Fitz Payn:
      i. ROBERT POYNINGS, Knt., 4th Lord Poynings [see next].
      ii. JOAN POYNINGS, married RICHARD CAMOYS, Knt., of Ingescourt (in Great Milton), Oxfordshire [see CAMOYS 9].”

      2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “MICHAEL DE POYNINGS, Knt., of Poynings, Perching (in Edburton), Slaugham, and Twineham, Sussex, Bures, Suffolk, etc., son and heir, born about 1317. He married in or before 1348 JOAN ___, widow of John de Moleyns, of Gore (in Market Lavington), Wiltshire. They had two sons, Thomas [2nd Lord Poynings] and Richard, Knt. [3rd Lord Poynings], and two daughters, Agnes and Elizabeth. He took part in the expedition to Flanders, 1338-9. He had order for seisin of his lands, being then still abroad, 8 Feb. 1339/40. In June 13409 he was again setting out with the king. He was summoned for service against the Scots, 1341. He sailed with the king to Brittany in October 1342, as a banneret. He again sailed with the king in 1345, and fought at the Battle of Crecy in 1346. He was present at the Siege of Calais in 1346-7. He was summoned to Parliament from 20 Nov. 1348 to 24 Feb. 1367/8 by writs directed Michaeli de Ponynges, whereby he is held to have become Lord Poynings. He presented to the church of Hockwold, Norfolk in 1349. In 1354 he was one of the justices to enforce the Statute of Labourers in Sussex. He was abroad in the king's service in 1355. He commanded his own company in the king's campaign in France in 1359-60. In 1361 he and two others obtained license to grant the advowson of the church of Lancing, Sussex to the minister and brethren of the Holy Trinity, Mottinden. SIR MICHAEL DE POYNINGS, 1st Lord Poynings, died 7 March 1368/9. His widow, Joan, died 16 May 1369. She left a will dated 11 May 1369, proved 28 May 1369, requesting burial at Poynings, Sussex. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 2 (1805): 186. Nicolas Testantenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 82 (will of Joan, Lady Poynings). Procs. Soc. Antiq. 2nd Ser. 5 (1870): 106. Rye Cal. of Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 183. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1(1905): 45-49. C.P. 1(1910): 419; 9 (1836): 39 (sub Moleyns); 10 (1945): 660-661 (sub Poynings); 14 (1998): 65 (sub Bardolf), 479 (sub Moleyns). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 45. VCH Wiltshire 10 (1975): 82-106. VCH Sussex 6(1) (1980): 50,135; 7 (1940): 183, 189, 209. Ellis Cat. of Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 86 (seal of Michael de Ponynges dated 1346-In a cusped trefoil with a broad concave moulding, between two small wyvems, a shield of arms: barry of six, and a bendlet.). National Archives, C 143/292/19; C 143/338/18; E 213/207 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ search.asp).
      Children of Michael de Poynings, Knt., by Joan ___:
      i. THOMAS DE POYNINGS, 2nd Lord Poynings, married BLANCHE MOWBRAY [see MOWBRAY 5.ii].
      ii. RICHARD DE POYNINGS, Knt., 3rd Lord Poynings [see next].
      iii. AGNES POYNINGS, married (1st) WILLIAM BARDOLF, Knt., 4th Lord Bardolf [see BARDOLF 14]; (2nd) THOMAS MORTIMER, Knt., of Cavendish, Wratting, and Stansfield, Suffolk [see BARDOLF 14].
      iv. ELIZABETH POYNINGS, married JOHN GREY, of Shabbington, Buckinghamshire [see ODDINGSELES 11.i].”

      2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “RICHARD CAMOYS, Knt., of Camoys (in Great Milton) and Chislehampton, Oxfordshire, son and heir apparent by his father's 1st marriage. He married after 10 June 1387 JOAN POYNINGS, daughter of Richard de Poynings, 4th Lord Poynings, by Isabel, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz Pain (formerly de Grey), Knt. [see POYNINGS 15 for her ancestry]. Joan was a legatee in the 1387 will of her father, who bequeathed her 200 marks for her marriage. They had three sons, John, Ralph, and Hugh [2nd Lord Camoys], and two daughters, Margaret and Eleanor. In 1399 he and his father, Sir Thomas Camoys, were jointly granted custody of the castle and town of Porchester, Hampshire. In 1404 William Myrnecan sued Richard Camoys, son and heir of Elizabeth Camoys, former wife of Thomas Camoys, Knt., who for default of the said Thomas had been admitted to the defence of his rights to 40s. rents with appurtenances in Wheatley, Oxfordshire. Richard was heir in 1408 to his cousin, Gilbert Wace, Knt., by which he inherited the manors of Tythrop (in Kingsey), Buckinghamshire, and Checkenden, Oxfordshire. SIR RICHARD CAMOYS was living 25 May 1416, but died sometime before 24 June 1416. His widow, Joan, was living 24 June 1416.
      Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 122-123 (will of Richard de Poynings, 3rd Lord Poynings). Dallaway Hist. of the Western Div. of Sussex 1 (2) (1832): 217 (Camoys ped.). Sussex Arch. Coll. 3 (1850): 96. Davenport Lords Lieutenant & High Sheriffs of Oxfordshire (1868): 21. Carthew Hundred of Launditch & Deanery of Brisley 1 (1878): 238-241 (Camoys ped.). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 1 (1880): 234-235, 298-299, 341; 10th Ser. 7 (1907): 509-510. Genealogist n.s. 17 (1901): 115. Revised Rpts. of Cases in the English Courts of Common Law & Equity 49 (1901): 195-250 (re. Camoys Peerage). C.P.R. 1399-1401 (1903): 46. Benolte et al. Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 25-30 (Lewknor ped.: "Sr Richard Camoys. = Joane d. of Tho. Poynings."). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 332. VCH Buckingham 4 (1927): 63-68. Salter Boarstall Cartulary (Oxford Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. 88) (1930): 9-10 (undated memorandum in Boarstall Cartulary: "Memorandum quod anno domini millesimo CCLXIIII Gilbertus Wace armiger et Elena uxor eius fuerunt seisiti de omnibus terns vocatis Waceslondes in comitatu Oxonie; qui quidem Gilbertus et Elena habuerunt exitum inter se viz. Willelinum Wace militem. Et predictus Willelmus et Agnes uxor eius habuemnt exitum inter se viz. Hugonem, Willelmum, Iohannem, Humfridum, Thomam, Ioharmem, Isabellam, Elenam, Radulfum, et Thomam. Et predictus Willelmus ftlius predicti Willelmi supervixit. Et predicta Elena maritata fuit Ricardo Louches militi de Miltone ... Et predictus Willelmus filius Willelmi et Cecilia uxor eius habuerent exitum inter eos viz. Gilbertum Wace militem, Agnetam, Matildam, Sibillarn et Margaretarn. Et dictus Gilbertus [Wacel obiit seisitus de terris predictis. Cuius propinquior heres eat Ricardus Camoys miles ftlius Thome Camoys maids et Elizabeth uxoris eius, file et heredis Willelmi Louches de Milton, filii et heredis Iohannis Louches de Milton, filii et heredis predicti Ricardi Louches militis de Milton et predicte Elene, file Willelmo Wace militis, uxoris predicti Ricardi Louches."). VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 34-35. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 114: 1-7 (sub Camoys). Court of Common Pleas, CP 40/572, rot. 205 (available at http:// www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=1272).
      Children of Richard Camoys, Knt., by Joan Poynings:
      i. MARGARET CAMOYS, married RALPH RADMYLDE, Esq., of Lancing, Sussex [see CUDWORTH 10].
      ii. ELEANOR CAMOYS, married ROGER LEWKNOR, Knt., of Trotton, Sussex [see LEWKNOR 15].”

      3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “ROGER LEWKNOR, Knt., of Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes), Dedisham (in Slinfold), Iteford, and Selmeston, Sussex, South Mimms, Middlesex, Whatton, Leicestershire, Stoke Doyle and Greatworth, Northamptonshire, etc., Knight of the Shire for Sussex, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, 1439-40, 1467-8, Keeper of the temporalities of the Archbishopric of Canterbury, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Trotton, Bevendean (in Falmer), Broadwater, and Camoys Court (in Barcombe), Sussex, Tythrop (in Kingsey), Buckinghamshire, Lasham, Hampshire, etc., son and heir by his father's 1st marriage, born c.1412-22 (aged 30 [and more] in 1452, 50 [and more] in 1471). He married (1st) before 1426 ELEANOR CAMOYS, daughter of Richard Camoys, Knt., of Camoys (in Great Milton), Oxfordshire, by Joan, daughter of Richard Poynings, Knt., 3rd Lord Poynings [see CAMOYS 9 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1408 (aged 18 in 1426). They had seven sons, Thomas, Knt., Roger the elder (1st of name), William, Edward, Richard, John, and John, and four daughters, Margaret (or Margery), Mary, Amy, and Elizabeth. In 1426 she was co-heiress to her brother, Hugh Camoys, by which she inherited the manors of Tythrop (in Kingsey), Buckinghamshire, Lasham, Hampshire, Tansor, Northamptonshire, and Barcombe and Broadwater, Sussex, and a moiety of the manors of Camoys (in Great Stukeley), Huntingdonshire, Baldon St. Lawrence (in Toot Balden), Chiselhampton, and Wheatley in Cuddesdon), Oxfordshire, and Bevendean (in Falmer) and Trotton, Sussex. In 1428 he and his wife, Eleanor, and her sister, Margaret, were plaintiffs in a suit for the manors of Didling, Elsted, and Trotton, Sussex. In 1432 he and Ralph Radmyld disputed the right of presentation to the church of Broadwater, Sussex; the claim of Roger's presentee was confirmed. His wife, Eleanor, was living in 1433, and allegedly died in 1445. He and Ralph Radmyll, Esq., presented to the churches of of Trotton, Sussex, 1439, 1442, and Itchingfield, Sussex, 1440, and to the chantry of St. Mary in Broadwater, Sussex, 1439. He presented to the churches of Broadwater, Sussex, 1445; Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire, 1453 and 1461; and Greatworth, Northamptonshire, 1467, 1468, 1477. He married (2nd) before 1468-9 MARY WEST, daughter of Reynold West, Knt., 6th Lord la Warre, 3rd Lord West, by his 1st wife, Margaret, daughter of Robert Thorley, Esq., Treasurer of Calais [see WEST 10 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Reynold, Roger, Esq., and George. In 1468-9 he and his wife, Mary, conveyed lands in South Mimms, Middlesex to Richard Carpenter. In 1471 he was heir to his uncle, Richard Dallingridge, Esq., of Lymbourne, Hampshire, by which he inherited Bodiam Castle, Iford, Iden, Raddingdean, and Bolebrook (in Hartfield), Sussex, and Lockerlev, Hampshire. In the period, 1471-2, John Wode sued Roger Lewknor, Knt., executor of Richard Dalyngrigge, in Chancery regarding the reversion of the castle and manor of Bodiham, Sussex. In 1472 Richard Adam sued him for land in Torryng, Sussex. In 1473 he and his son, Thomas, Esq., and Richard Lewknor, Esq., of Brambletye, Sussex, owed a debt of £450 to Thomas Frowick, Esq. His wife, Mary, died 24 July 1473. In the period, 1475-80, or 1483-85, as “Roger Lewkenore, knight, son of Philippa, sister of Richard Dalyngrygge, late of Lymbourne, esquire,” he sued Thomas Pounde, executor of the said Richard Dalyngrygge, in Chancery regarding the manor of Lymbourne, Hampshire, pledged by the said Dalyngrygge with the said Pounde, and other property. He married (3rd) by settlement dated May 1477 KATHERINE (or CATHERINE) CHIDIOCK, widow successively of William Stafford, Esq. (died 18 June 1450), of Stinsford, Bomston, and Puriton, Dorset [see SOUTHWICK 10.iii; CHIDIOCK 14], and John Arundell (died 1473), of Lanherne, Cornwall [see CHIDIOCK 14; MORLEY 14], and daughter and co-heiress of John Chidiock, of Chideock, Buckham (in Beaminster), Caundle Haddon, etc., Dorset, by Katherine, daughter of Ralph Lumley, Knt., 1st Lord Lumley [see CHIDIOCK 13 for her ancestry]. SIR ROGER LEWKNOR died 4 Aug. 1478. He left a will dated 23 July 1478, proved 28 Nov. 1478 (P.C.C. 1 Logge), requesting burial in Trotton, Sussex. In the period, 1478-9, his widow, Katherine, sued Giles Daubeney and others, feoffees to uses, in Chancery regarding several manors, including Dedisham (in Slinfold), Bolebrook (in Hartfield), Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes), Iteford, and Selmeston, Sussex, South Mimms, Middlesex, etc. Katherine died 9 April 1479.
      Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. Of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 125. Berry County Gens.: Sussex Fams. (1830): 130 (Lewknor ped.). Dallaway Hist. of the Western Div. of Sussex 1(2) (1832): 217 (Camoys ped.). Banks Baronies in Fee 2 (1843): 146-147 (sub Tregoz). Sussex Arch. Colls. 3 (1850): 89-102; 9 (1857): 275-302; 41 (1898): 123-124, 136. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 2 (1863): 178-182 (Stafford ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 30 (1874): 59-61. Carthew Hundred of Launditch & Deanery of Brisky 1 (1878): 238-241 (Camoys ped.). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 1 (1880): 234-235, 298-299, 341. Cooke & Mundy Vis. of Worcester 1569 (H.S.P. 27) (1888): 86-87 (Lewknor ped.: "Sr Roger Lewknor Knt 10, 38 E. 4 [1] = Ellinor da. & heire to Ric. Camoys, 1 wiffe, sepult. 1445, [2] = Issabell da. of Roger Ichingham, 2 wiffe."). Hurst Hist. & Antiqs. of Horsham (1889): 148. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 136. C.P.R. 1467-1477 (1900): 633. C.P.R. 1476-1485 (1901): 575. English Rpts.: House of Lords 7 (1901): 895-924 (Camoys Peerage). Genealogist n.s. 17 (1901): 115; n.s. 31 (1915): 173-178 (re. Stafford fam.). Revised Rpts. of Cases in the English Courts of Common Law & Equity 49 (1901): 195-250 (Camoys Peerage). List of Early Chancery Procs. 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 16) (1903): 37, 440. Benolte et al. Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 25-30 (Lewknor ped.: "Sr Roger Lewknor knight 10 [sic] 38 E. 4, 1477, [1] = Ellianor ["Allice" erased] d. & heire of Ric. Camoys sepl 1445 1 wiff, [2] = Issabell d. of Roger Ickingham 2 wiffe.") (Camoys arms: Or, on a chief gules three bezants). Deedes Extracts from the Episcopal Regs. of Richard Paty, S.T.P., Lord Bishop of Chichester (Sussex Rec. Soc. 4) (1905): 112-113, 114-115, 124-125. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 332, 432. VCH Northampton 2 (1906): 595-596. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 126; 4 (1911): 81-82, 501 (Camoys arms: Argent a chief gules with three roundels argent therein). C.P.R. 1452-1461 (1910): 679. C.P. 2 (1912): 508, 510. VCH Bedfordshire 3 (1912): 189-202. Kingsford Stoner Letters & Papers 1290-1483 1 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 29) (1919): 128-129 (letter of Lady Katherine Arundell (nee Chidiock) dated ?1473 names her cousins, Thomas Stonor, Esq. [see DE LA POLE 10], and Richard Harcourt, Knt. [see WITHAM 9]). VCH Buckingham 4 (1927): 63-68. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 132-133. VCH Huntingdon 2 (1932): 232. Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933): 148-158 (sub Lewknor), 304-308 (sub Lords West). Wedgwood Hist. of Parl. 1 (1936): 541-542 (biog. of Roger Lewknor). VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 34-35 (Camoys arms: Or on a chief gules three roundels argent) (Lewknor arms: Azure three cheverons argent); 6(1) (1980): 69-70, 77; 7 (1940): 52-57, 81, 226, 257-258. CC.R. 1476-1485 (1954): 134-138. VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 110; 7 (1962): 11-12, 123. Paget (1957) 114: 1-7 (sub Camoys). VCH Wiltshire 8 (1965): 218-234. VCH Gloucester 10 (1972): 143-148. VCH Somerset 3 (1974): 111-120. VCH Middlesex 5 (1976): 282-285. Roskell Parl & Politics in Late Medieval England (1981): 383-396 (biog. of Sir John Wood). Roskell Pad & Politics in Late Medieval England (1981): 383-396 (biog. of Sir John Wood). National Archives, C 1/41/35; C 1/56/268; C 241/255/7; E 210/1557 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
      Children of Roger Lewknor, Knt., by Eleanor Camoys:
      i. THOMAS LEWKNOR, Knt. [see next].
      ii. MARGARET (or MARGERY) LEWKNOR, married (1st) JOHN WOOD, Knt., of East Molesey, Surrey [see KIRTON 13; SOMERSET 12.ix]; (2nd) THOMAS GARTH, Esq., of Boxted, Essex, and London [see KIRTON 13; SOMERSET 12.ix].
      iii. ELIZABETH LEWKNOR, married JOHN WROTH, Esq., of Durants (in Enfield), Middlesex [see WROTH 16].
      Child of Roger Lewknor, Knt., by Mary West:
      i. ROGER LEWKNOR, Esq., of Tangmere, Sussex, married ANNE ___ [see STOUGHTON 16].”