Thomas de Poynings , Sir Knight 
Thomas de was born about 1298 in Poynings, Sussex, England. Thomas de's father was Michael de Poynings , MP, Sir and his mother was Margery Bardolf. His paternal grandparents were Luke de Poynings , Sir Knight and Hawise; his maternal grandparents were Hugh 1st Baron Bardolf , Sir and Isabel de Aguillon , Heiress of Addington. He had a sister named Margery. He was the older of the two children. He died on October 10th, 1339 in Honnecourt Castle, Cambrai, Nord Pas de Calais, France (killed).General Notes
SIR THOMAS DE POYNINGS, (son and) heir, was a knight in April 1315. In February 1322/3 he was preparing for service in Scotland under Earl de Warenne; and in March 1323/4 was going to Aquitaine with Edmund, Earl of Kent. In May 1324 he was summoned by proclamation to the Great Council at Westminster. He took part in the Dunstable tournament in 1333; was summoned against the Scots in 1335 and 1337, and in May 1336 was appointed one of the custodians of the ports and coasts of Surrey and Sussex against the Scots and their foreign allies. He was summoned in April 1337 to a council of prelates and magnates at Stamford, and in June following to a similar assembly at Westininster. He served with a retinue in the King's expedition to Flanders in 1338, and was in Antwerp in July 1339 (e).
He married, about 1317, Agnes (aged 22 and more in May 1321), younger daughter and coheir of Richard DE ROKESLEY, of Westwood (in Preston) and Ruxley, Kent, by Joan, heir of her brother Bertram DE CRIOL, and daughter of Bertram DE CRIOL (died 1295), by Eleanor, younger daughter and coheir of Maud D'AVRANCHES. He was killed, 10 October 1339, in an attack on the castle of Honnecourt, on the St. Quentin canal, arr. of Cambrai (g). His widow died some time before 22 December 1346, and was buried at Poynings. [Complete Peerage X:659-60, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(e) In Mar 1336/7 he was granted an annuity of 200 marks, till he could receive an equivalent in land, in recognition of his good services to the King's brother, John of Eltham, late Earl of Cornwall, and of his then engagement with the King--with the assent of Parliament.
(g) Idem (vol viii, no 231) (which dates his death 17 Oct, and gives his son's age as 22 and more in Nov 1339). On 14 Oct, the King, in consideration of Thomas's death in his service, and his affection for him, granted seisin and his marriage to his son Michael, though still a minor. Sir Thomas had younger sons (Thomas, John, Luke, and Richard - 3rd Lord Poynings).
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.< 1126 in Poynings, Sussex, England d.<29 Sep 1202
- b.~ 1170 in Poynings, Sussex, England d.< 1240
- b.~ 1202 in Poynings, Sussex, England d.<24 Sep 1272
- b.~ 1174 in Norfolk, England
- b.<Sep 1231 in Poynings, Sussex, England d.<08 Jun 1294
- b.~ 1164 in Marden, Westbourne, Sussex, England d.> 1232
- b.~ 1186 in Old Buckhurst, Withyham, Sussex, England d.~ 1249
- b.~ 1165 in Thatcham, Newbury, Berkshire, England
- b.~ 1208 in Old Buckhurst, Withyham, Sussex, England d.<Sep 1251
- b.~ 1160 in Fresney, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1188 in Fresney, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1273 in Poynings, Sussex, England d.24 Jun 1314 in Bannockburn, Stirling, Scotland
- b.~ 1233 in Harberton, Totnes, Devonshire, England d.<24 Oct 1299
- b.~ 1298 in Poynings, Sussex, England d.10 Oct 1339 in Honnecourt Castle, Cambrai, Nord Pas de Calais, France (killed)
- b.~ 1170 in Shelford, Nottinghamshire, England d.1205 in Wormegay, Downham, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1199 in Wormegay, Downham, Norfolk, England d.1275
- b.~ 1176 in Wormegay, Downham, Norfolk, England d.1214
- b.~ 1229 in Wormegay, Downham, Norfolk, England d.01 Dec 1289
- b.~ 1209 in Wormegay, Downham, Norfolk, England
- b.29 Sep 1259 in Wormegay, Downham, Norfolk, England d.Sep 1304 in Priory, Shelford, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.1148 in Caistor next Yarmouth, Flegg, Norfolk, England d.1215 in Ashby, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1189 in Ashby, Leicestershire, England d.1239 in Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1163 in Ashby, Leicestershire, England d.1238
- b.1231 in Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England d.1295 in Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1205 in Oxfordshire, England d.> 1231
- b.~ 1280 in Addington, Surrey, England d.AFT FEB 1333/34
- b.1165 in Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, England d.<03 Oct 1244 in Addington, Surrey, England
- b.~ 1212 in Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, England d. in Addington, Surrey, England
- b.1182 in Addington, Surrey, England
- b.15 FEB 1235/36 in Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, England d.15 FEB 1285/86 in Addington, Surrey, England
- b.~ 1215 in England
- b.25 Apr 1258 in Addington, Surrey, England d.<28 May 1323 in Addington, Surrey, England
- b.1172 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d.22 Sep 1247
- b.~ 1193 in Derby, Derbyshire, England d.<28 Mar 1254 in Evington, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1174 in Chester, Cheshire, England d.02 Nov 1247
- b.~ 1233 in Derby, Derbyshire, England d.<Oct 1267 in Addington, Surrey, England
- b.1146 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.14 May 1219 in Caversham Manor, England
- b.~ 1191 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.< 1238
- b.~ 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
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