Robert Poynings
Sir Robert Poynings | |
|---|---|
| Born | c.1419 |
| Died | 17 February 1461 St Albans |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Paston |
| Issue | Sir Edward Poynings |
| Father | Robert Poynings, 4th Baron Poynings |
| Mother | Eleanor Grey |
Sir Robert Poynings (c.1419 – 17 February 1461), was the second son of Robert Poynings, 4th
Family
Robert Poynings was the second son of Robert Poynings, 4th Baron Poynings (1382 – 2 October 1446), by his first wife Eleanor Grey, the daughter of
By his father's second marriage to Margaret Squery (d. 3 November 1448), elder daughter of Thomas Squery of
Career
The 4th Baron had settled the manors of Tirlingham, Newington, Eastwell and Westwood in Kent on his granddaughter, Eleanor Poynings (1428–1484), wife of Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, and daughter of Robert Poynings' elder brother, Sir Richard Poynings, by his second wife, Eleanor Berkeley. Robert Poynings claimed these manors against Eleanor 'as heir by gavelkind', claiming, as well, the manor of Great Perching in Sussex. He also claimed the 4th Baron's moveable goods against William Cromer, son of Margaret Squery by her first husband, Sir William Cromer.[5]
In the summer of 1450, Poynings joined the rebel
Poynings was slain on 17 February 1461 while fighting on the Yorkist side at the Second Battle of St Albans.[5]
Marriage and issue
In 1458 he married Elizabeth Paston (1 July 1429 – 1 February 1488), the daughter of William Paston, by whom he had an only son, Sir Edward Poynings, who married Elizabeth Scott (d. 15 August 1528), daughter of Sir John Scott (d.1485), and who also fathered seven illegitimate children by several mistresses, including Thomas Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings, and Sir Adrian Poynings.[6][7][8][5][9][10]
After Poynings' death his widow married Sir George Browne of Betchworth Castle, Surrey, (beheaded on Tower Hill 4 December 1483), by whom she had two sons, Sir Matthew Browne (d. 6 August 1557), who married Frideswide Guildford, daughter of Richard Guildford, and George, and a daughter, Mary.[11]
Notes
- ^ Richardson II 2011, pp. 274–5.
- ^ a b c Richardson III 2011, p. 394.
- ^ According to Cokayne and Fleming, the name of the 4th Baron's first wife is unknown.
- ^ Cokayne 1945, pp. 663–5.
- ^ a b c d e f Fleming 2004.
- ^ Richmond & Virgoe 2004.
- ^ West 2004, pp. 39–40.
- ^ Ellis 2004.
- ^ Stevens 2004.
- ^ Isabel Scott (1459-15 August 1528) A Who’s Who of Tudor Women: Sa-Sn, compiled by Kathy Lynn Emerson to update and correct Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth-Century England (1984) Archived 21 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 19 September 2013.
- ^ Richardson I 2011, pp. 340–1.
References
- Cokayne, George Edward (1945). The Complete Peerage, edited by H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White and Lord Howard de Walden. Vol. X. London: St Catherine Press. pp. 663–5, 668–9.
- Ellis, Steven G. (2004). "Poynings, Sir Edward (1459–1521)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22683. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Fleming, Peter (2004). "Poynings , Michael, first Lord Poynings (c.1318–1369)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22684. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Vol. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 978-1449966379.)
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- Stevens, M.A. (2004). "Poynings, Sir Adrian (1512?–1571)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65669. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- West, Diane, trans. (2004). The Paston Women. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D.S. Brewer. ISBN 9781843840244. Retrieved 19 September 2013.)
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