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  • Name Richard Camoys
    Birth of Camoys, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male
    Death From 25 May 1416 to 24 Jun 1416 
    Person ID I5965  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 21 Jun 2026

    Father Thomas Camoys,   b. Abt 1351, of Trotton, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Mar 1421 (Age 70 years)
    Mother Elizabeth Louches,   b. of Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F2606  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Joan Poynings   d. Aft 24 Jun 1416
    Marriage Aft 10 Jun 1387 
    Children 
     1. John Camoys
     2. Ralph Camoys
     3. Hugh Camoys
     4. Margaret Camoys,   b. Abt 1402
     5. Eleanor Camoys,   b. Abt 1408, of Camoys, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1445, of, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 37 years)
    Family ID F2605  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2026

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “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].”

      2. “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].”

      2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “THOMAS CAMOYS, K.G., of Trotton, Barcombe, Broadwater, and Elsted, Sussex, Honydon or Camoys (in Eaton Socon), Bedfordshire, Great Stukeley, Huntingdonshire, Bekerton, Norfolk, Tansor, Northamptonshire, etc., son and heir by his father's 2nd marriage, born in or before 1351 (of age in 1372). He married (1st) ELIZABETH LOUCHES, daughter and heiress of William Louches, of Great Milton and Chislehampton, Oxfordshire. They had one son, Richard, Knt., and one daughter, Alice. He was heir in 1372 to his uncle, Thomas Camoys, Knt., by which he inherited the manors of Trotton, Barcombe, Broadwater, and Elsted, Sussex, Great Stukeley, Huntingdonshire, Bekerton, Norfolk, Tansor, Northamptonshire, etc. In 1375 he was granted a weekly market at Broadwater, Sussex. The same year his maternal uncle, William Latimer, K.G., 4th Lord Latimer was granted various tenements and houses in Calais by the king formerly held by John Dayre, with remainder in male tail to Thomas Camoys. In 1378 he disputed the advowson of Broadwater, Sussex with Adam de Hartingdon. He was a legatee in the 1381 will of his cousin, William le Latimer, K.G., 4th Lord Latimer, by which he inherited the manor of Wotton, Surrey. He presented to the church of Wotton, Surrey, 1382, 1383, and 1392, and Lasham, Hampshire, 1392. He was one of the liveried personnel of his brother-in-law, Edward Courtenay, Kim, 11th Earl of Devon, in 1384-5. He saw military service in Castile under John of Gaunt. He was summoned to Parliament from 20 August 1383 to 26 Feb. 1420/1, by writs directed Thome Camoys ch'r, whereby he is held to have become Lord Camoys. He was excluded from court in Jan. 1388 by order of the Lords Appellant. In 1389 he made a settlement of the manor of Honydon or Camoy's (in Eaton Socon), Bedfordshire. In 1399 he was granted the bailiwick of the forestership of Alice Holt and Wolmer, Hampshire by the king "as Ralph de Camoys his grandfather had in the time of Edward III." The same year he and his son, Richard, were jointly granted custody of the castle and town of Porchester, Hampshire. In 1400 he manned a ship for service against the Scotch and the French. In 1405-6 he unsuccessfully claimed the manor of Eling, Hampshire against the warden of Winchester College. He married (2nd) after 3 June 1406 ELIZABETH MORTIMIER, widow of Henry "Hotspur" Percy, Knt., styled le Fitz, K.G., K.B., Justice of Chester, North Wales, and Flintshire, Warden of the East Marches, Captain of Berwick on Tweed [see PERCY 12 for issue of that marriage], and daughter of Edmund de Mortimer, Knt., Earl of March and Ulster, by Philippe, daughter and heiress of Lionel of Antwerp, K.G., Duke of Clarence, 5th Earl of Ulster (younger son of King Edward III of England) [see MORTIMER 13 for her ancestry]. She was born at Usk, Monmouthshire 12 (or 13) Feb. 1370/1, and baptized 16 Feb. 1370/1. She was a legatee in the 1380 will of her father. They had one son, Roger, Knt. [Lord Camoys]. In 1406 he signed the deed of King Henry IV regulating the succession to the crown. In 1408 William Mymecan sued Thomas Camoys, Knt, regarding 40s. rents with appurtenances in Wheatley, Oxfordshire. Thomas was heavily involved in the military affairs of both Kings Henry IV and Henry V. He commanded the left wing of the English army at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. He presented to the church of Broadwater, Sussex in 1416. His wife, Elizabeth, died 20 April 1417. SIR THOMAS CAMOYS, Lord Camoys, died 28 March 1421. He and his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, were buried at Trotton, Sussex.
      Gurdon Hist. of the High Court of Parl. 1 (1731): 189. Nichols Coll. of All the Wills (1780): 104-117 (will of Edmond de Mortimer, Earl of March and Ulster). Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist of Norfolk 2(1805): 277-281. Blore Hist & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 42 (Mortimer ped.). Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 108 (will of William K.G., 4th Lord Latimer, names his "cousin" Thomas Camoys). Dallaway Hist. of the Western Div. of Sussex 1(2) (1832): 217 (Camoys ped.). Sussex Arch. Coll. 3 (1850): 96. Hawley Royal Fam. of England (1851): 23-27. 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, 401; 10th Ser. 7 (1907): 509-510. Kirby Wykeham's Reg. 1(1896): 132, 137, 182, 184. 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.: "Tho. Lord Camoys = Elizebeth d. & heire of Wmi. Louches."). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 332. D.N.B. 3 (1908): 758-759 (biog. of Thomas de Camoys). Lane Royal Daughters of England 1 (1910): 275-277. C.C.R. 1369-1374 (1911): 406-407. Ruvigny and Raineval Plantagenet Roll: Mortimer-Percy 1 (1911): vi-vii, 2 (erroneously identifies Elizabeth Mortimer as mother of Alice Camoys, wife of Leonard Hastings, Knt., Alice was actually Elizabeth's step-daughter). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 81-82; 547-548. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 155-156, 378-381. C.P. 2 (1912): 507-508 (sub Camoys); 9 (1936): 713-714 (sub Northumberland); 14 (1998): 138 (sub Camoys). VCH Bedfordshire 3 (1912): 189-202. C.C.R. 1381-1385 (1920): 61. Feudal Aids 6 (1920): 521. Cal. IPM 13 (1954): 150-151. VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 34-35; 6(1) (1980): 69-70, 77; 7 (1940): 80-83. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 114: 1-7 (sub Camoys). Hector Westminster Chron. 1381-1394 (1982): 230- 231. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 35 (1983): 156 (biog. of Thomas Camoys, knight). Taylor English Hist. Lit. in the 14th Cent. (1987): 296 (Wigmore Chron. sub 1371: "Bodem anno Elizabeth primogenita filia. domini Edmundi de Mortymer comitis marchie nata est ex philippa uxore died domini Edmundi et Ella leonelli filii Edwardi tercii Anglie idus ffebruaris [13 Feb.] apud Uske et baptisara XVI die ffebruariis et confirmata eodem die."). Cal. IPM 20 (1995): 230; 23 (2004): 153, 388-389. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 143-149. Coss Soldiers, Nobles and Gentlemen (2009):107. Court of Common Pleas, CP 40/590, rot. 127 (available at http:// www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=1272).
      Children of Thomas Camoys, K.G., by Elizabeth Louches:
      i. RICHARD CAMOYS, Knt. [see next].
      ii. ALICE CAMOYS, married LEONARD HASTINGS, Knt, of Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire [see HUNTINGDON 13].
      Child of Thomas Camoys, K.G., by Elizabeth Mortimer:
      i. ROGER CAMOYS, Knt., styled Lord Camoys, of Wotton, Surrey, Trotton, Sussex, Calais, France, etc., Seneschal of Guienne, son by his father's 2nd marriage, born about 1406 (aged 22 in 1428). He married (1st) before 3 March 1437/8 ISABEL ___. They had no issue. In 1429 he quitclaimed to Thomas Morstede, Esq. all his rights in the manor of Wotton, Surrey by way of mortgage for 200 mares; three years later he released to the said Thomas all his rights therein and levied a fine. In 1429 Roger claimed that in 1428 Robert Falowefeld used force arms to seize and carry off his goods and chattels at London to the value of £40. In 1433 he ceded his rights in the manors of Stukeley (in Great Stukeley), Huntingdonshire and Barcombe, Broadwater, and Trotton, Sussex to Roger Lewknor and his wife, Eleanor, niece of the said Roger. In 1436 he and the Earl of Huntingdon relieved the garrison at Calais. He was taken prisoner in France in 1443-4, and detained there in great misery. During his captivity, his wife, Isabel, was granted an annuity of £40 for life in October 1443. In 1411 he obtained license from the king to settle his property at Calais upon himself and his heirs male. His wife, Isabel, died shortly before 26 Nov. 1444, and was buried in the Grey Friars, London. In 1448 he married (2nd) by papal license dated 1448 ISABEL DE BEAUNOY, of the diocese of Rouen, with whom he had already cohabited. They had no issue. In July 1455 the king gave Richard, Earl of Salisbury the armour, etc. "which were of the Lord Camoys, our rebel .... as forfeited by cause of his rebellion." In 1465 SIR ROGER CAMOYS granted an inn called "Nettelbedd" with two tenements in St. Nicholas, Calais to his nephew, William Hastings, 1s, Lord Hastings. His date of death is unknown. Monro Letters of Queen Margaret of Anjou & Bishop Beckington (Camden Soc. 86) (1863): 109-110. Lewis Pedes Finium; or, Fines Rel. Surrey (Surrey Arch. Soc. Extra Volume 1) (1894): 151. VCH Stony 3 (1911): 154-164. Kingsford Grey Friars of London (1915): 77-78. Papal Regs.: Letters 10 (1915): 192 (Roger Camoys styled "brother of the earl of Northumberland"). Rpt. on MSS of the late Reginald R. Hastings 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 78) (1928): 273, 275-276. VCH Huntingdon 2 (1932): 230-234. C.C.R. 1422-1429 (1933): 466. C.C.R. 1441-1447 (1937): 166, 460. C.C.R. 1447-1454 (1941-7): 324. VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 32-39; 6(1) (1980): 66-81; 7 (1940): 80-83. Paget (1957) 114: 1-7 (sub Camoys). Cal. IPM 23 (2004): 153. Court of Common Pleas, CP 40/674, rot. 370 (available at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=1272).”

      3. 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].”