Hon. Robert Poynings

circa 1419 - 1461  (~ 42 years)

• Name	Robert Poynings  [1]
  Prefix	Hon.
  Born	circa 1419  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	17 Feb. 1461	St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England   [1]
  	Slain fighting for the Yorkists at the second Battle of St. Albans [1]
  Person ID	I791	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	7 Sept. 2018

  
  

  Father	Robert (de Poynings), 4th Lord Poynings,   b. 3 Dec. 1382, Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset, England ,   d. 2 Oct. 1446  (Age 63 years)
  Mother	Hon. Eleanor Grey
  Family ID	F432	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Paston
  Married	1458  [1]
  Children	1. Sir Edward Poynings,   b. 1459,   d. 22 Oct. 1521, Westenhanger, Kent, England  (Age 62 years)
  Last Modified	7 Sept. 2018
  Family ID	F442	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  "... Robert's life was dominated by his struggle to acquire the Kentish manors of Tirlingham, Newington, Eastwell, and Westwood, which his father had settled on Eleanor (1428–1484), daughter of Robert's elder brother, Richard, and wife of Henry Percy, third earl of Northumberland and, by right of his wife, fifth Baron Poynings. Robert claimed these manors as heir by gavelkind. He also claimed Great Perching in Sussex. In the summer of 1450 he was one of a handful of gentry to join the Cade rebellion, apparently acting as Cade's carver and sword-bearer. He may have been motivated by another feud, this time with his stepbrother, William Crowmer (whose mother had been the fourth Lord Poynings's second wife), over the fourth Lord Poynings's moveables (Crowmer was a particular target of the rebels). Robert did not take out a pardon until 1457, in the meantime suffering outlawry and imprisonment, but this did not prevent him from sitting as MP for Sussex from October 1450 to May 1451. In 1458 he married Elizabeth (1429?–1487/8), daughter of Judge William Paston, with whom he had a son, Edward Poynings, the future lord deputy of Ireland. Robert was killed fighting for the Yorkists at the battle of St Albans on 17 February 1461." [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S9] Oxford D.N.B., H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), P. Fleming (2008), "Poynings [Ponyngs], Michael, first Lord Poynings (c. 1318–1369), soldier".