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Birth:          3 Dec 1382 Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorsetshire, England
Death:          2 Oct 1446 Poynings, Sussex, England

Notes
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BARONY OF POYNINGS (IV) 1387

ROBERT (DE POYNINGS), LORD POYNINGS, son and heir, was born at Okeford 
Fitzpaine, Dorset, 3 December 1382, and baptised there. He was summoned to the 
Great Council to meet at Westminster 15 August 1401, and to another (probably 1405). 
Having proved his age and done homage, he had order for livery of his lands 17 
January 1403/4; and the following June, as a knight, appointed attorneys before going 
abroad. He was summoned to Parliament presumably from 25 August 1404, certainly 
from 21 December 1405 to 13 January 1444/5. In June 1409 he was a commissioner 
to raise money in Somerset; P.C. March 1410/1, and under Henry V and Henry VI. 
Commissioner of the peace in Surrey, 1413, and of array in Sussex, 1415. In January 
1419/20 a commissioner to raise loans in Sussex and Hants; in April chief supervisor 
of the muster of men for the fleet at Southampton, and in June chief of the escort to 
conduct the Duke of Bourbon, the King's prisoner, to the King in France. He served 
Queen Catherine at her Coronation feast in London, February 1420/1; in July 1423 he 
fought at Cravant under the Earl of Salisbury; and in February 1423/4 he had a 
command in the successful expedition for the recovery of Crotoy, at the mouth of the 
Somme. He sailed again from Dover in June, and took part in the Duke of Bedford's 
victory at Verneull in August 1424. In July 1437 he was summoned to the funeral of 
Queen Joan, widow of Henry IV, at Canterbury; in February 1440/1 he was joint 
commissioner for payment of the subsidy in Sussex.

He married, 1stly, before 22 October 1397, Elizabeth, daughter of Reynold [Grey], 
Lord Grey of Ruthyn by his 1st wife Margaret, daughter of Thomas [Ros], 4th Lord Ros 
of Helmsley and, 2ndly, in or before June 1434, Margaret, elder da. and in her issue 
coh. of Thomas SQUERY, of Westerham, Kent, and widow of William CROMER (d. 
Jan. 1433/4), M.P., London, 1407, 1417, 1421; Lord Mayor, 1414, 1423. He d. 2 Oct. 
1446. His widow d. 3 Nov. 1448. [Complete Peerage X:663-4, XIV:535, (transcribed by 
Dave Utzinger)]

Parents
DE POYNINGS Richard (ABT 1355 - 25 May 1387)
FITZ PAYN Isabel (ABT 1364 - 11 Apr 1394)

Siblings
POYNINGS Robert (3 Dec 1382 - 2 Oct 1446)

Marriage To GREY Elizabeth (Eleanor) (ABT 1382 - BEF 1434)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE GREY Reginald (Reynold) (1362 - 30 Sep 1440)
DE ROS Margaret (ABT 1361 - BEF 1414)

Children by GREY Elizabeth (Eleanor) ABT 1382 - BEF 1434
POYNINGS Richard (ABT 1399 - 10 Jun 1429)

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