John de Moleyns

- Bef 1348

• Name	John de Moleyns
  Gender	Male
  Died	Bef 1348	of Gore, Wiltshire, England
  Person ID	I6812	Petersen-de Lanskoy
  Last Modified	27 May 2021

  
  

  Family	Joan,   d. 16 May 1369
  Last Modified	28 May 2021
  Family ID	F3026	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “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].”