Hon. Sir Richard de Poynings

- 1429

• Name	Richard de Poynings  [1, 2]
  Prefix	Hon. Sir
  Gender	Male
  Decoration	by 1423  [1]
  	Knighthood
  Office	1423  [1]
  	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Sussex
  Will	20 July 1428  [3, 4]
  	His will, dated 20 July 1428, proven 31 October 1430 (P.C.C., Luffenam 14), directs burial before the west door in Poynings churchyard, and mentions three (unnamed) children, evidently two sons and a daughter. See also a will drawn up 13 July, printed in Coll. Top. et Gen., volume iii, page 259. [3, 4]
  Died	10 June 1429	near Orléans, France   [5]
  Probate	31 Oct. 1430  [3, 6]
  	Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.), Luffenam 14. [3]
  Person ID	I777	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 1	Joan Seamer,   d. 1420
  Last Modified	16 Aug. 2018
  Family ID	F433	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Eleanor Berkeley,   d. 1 Aug. 1455
  Children	+ 1. Eleanor (Poynings), de jure suo jure Baroness Poynings,   b. circa 1422,   d. Feb. 1483/84  (Age ~ 62 years)
  Last Modified	16 Aug. 2018
  Family ID	F431	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  In October 1428 he was taking musters near Orleans, and was killed there, 10 June 1429. [5]

  
  

• Sources

  [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume X, page 664. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume IX, page 716. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume X, page 665. Citing P.C.C., Luffenam 14; Coll. Top. et Gen., volume iii, page 259. [S19] Testamenta Vetusta, N. H. Nicolas, page 217. "[Testament of] SIR RICHARD POYNINGS, KNT. "Richard Poynings, eldest son of Robert Lord Poynings, at the town of Sandwich, July 28, 1428. My body to buried in the burial ground of Poynings, before the north door of the Church, if my wife pleaseth, or where else she pleases; to my beloved wife Lady of Arundel and Maltravers; to my cousin William Arundel, son of my said wife, a piece of the holy cross, to him and his heirs. And I appoint John Belney and Walter Cury, Esquires, my executors. Proved October 31st, 1430." [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume X, page 665. Citing B.M. Add. Chr. 11601; Gregory's Chron., page 164. [S18] Will of Richard Ponynges or Poynings of Sandwich, Kent, Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, PROB 11/3/269.