Thomas Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings
Thomas Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings | |
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Born | c.1512 |
Died | 17 August 1545 Boulogne |
Spouse(s) | Katherine Marney |
Issue | son Poynings |
Father | Sir Edward Poynings |
Mother | Rose Whethill |
Thomas Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings (c.1512 – 17 August 1545) was an English soldier and courtier.
Family
Thomas Poynings was one of seven illegitimate children of
He had two brothers, Edward Poynings (d.1546) and
Career
Poynings' wife, Katherine, 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
On 30 January 1545, Poynings was raised to the peerage as Baron Poynings and appointed Lieutenant of Boulogne. He died of dysentery at
Marriage and issue
He married Katherine Marney, widow of George Radcliffe, a younger son of Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex, and elder daughter and co-heir of John Marney, 2nd Baron Marney, by whom he had an only son, baptized in March 1539, who died an infant.[2][6][8]
Notes
- ^ Ellis 2004.
- ^ a b c Grummitt 2008.
- ^ Richardson IV 2011, p. 4.
- ^ Rose Whetehill (1472-1521+), A Who’s Who of Tudor Women: W-Wh, compiled by Kathy Lynn Emerson to update and correct Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth-Century England (1984) Archived 2013-09-21 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Stevens 2004.
- ^ a b Cokayne 1945, p. 669.
- ^ Robertson 2004.
- ^ Bindoff 1982.
References
- Bindoff, S.T. (1982). The House of Commons 1509-1558. Vol. III. London: Secker & Warburg. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
- 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. 668–9.
- Ellis, Steven G. (2004). "Poynings, Sir Edward (1459–1521)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22683. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Grummitt, David (2008). "Poynings, Thomas, first Baron Poynings". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22686. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Vol. IV (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 978-1460992708.)
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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.)