Richard de Rokesley

Family/Spouse: Joan de Criol. Joan (daughter of Bertram de Criol and Eleanor de Crevequer) was born about 1270 in Westwood, Preston, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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It's quite possible that Sir Richard de Rokesley (b. ca. 1295) is the son of Richard de Rokesley (b. ca. 1270), father of Agnes who m. Thomas de Poynings -- their ages are certainly right -- but -- if this is the case, then Joan, who m. Michael de Poynings married the son of her aunt, i.e., her nephew.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Agnes was one of the co-heirs of John, son of Bartholomew de Cryol. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 444, Poynings, Baron St. John, of Basing]

Agnes married 1st Lord Poynings Thomas de Poynings in 1317. Thomas was born about 1287 in of Poynings, Sussex, England; died on 10 Oct 1339 in Honnecourt Castle, Cambrai, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married 2nd Lord Poynings Michael de Poynings before 1348. Michael (son of 1st Lord Poynings Thomas de Poynings and Agnes de Rokesley) was born about 1317 in of Poynings, Sussex, England; died on 1 Mar 1368/69 in Poynings, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Michael de Poynings, 2nd baron, summoned to parliament from 25 February, 1342, to 24 February, 1368. Upon the decease of the last lord, the king, by his letters patent dated the 14th of the same month, acknowledging his great valour and eminent merits and reciting that he was slain in his service, received the homage of the present baron though then under age; and in recompense of those, his father's, sufferings, not only granted him livery of his lands but the full benefit of his marriage, taking security for the payment of his relief. This Michael, Lord Poynings, participated in the glories of the reign of Edward III, and was amongst the heroes of Cressy. His lordship m. Joane, dau. of Sir Richard Rokesley, and widow of Sir John de Molyns, Knt., and d. in 1369; he was s. by his son, Thomas de Poynings, 3rd baron. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 444, Poynings, Barons Poynings]

Michael married Joan de Rokesley before 1348. Joan (daughter of Richard de Rokesley) was born about 1321 in Roxley, Kent, England; died on 16 Jun 1369 in Poynings, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lucas de Poynings, younger son of Thomas, 1st Lord Poynings, under the writ of Edward III, having m. in the 23rd Edward III, Isabel, widow of Henry de Burghersh, dau. of Hugh de St. John, Lord St. John, of Basing (a barony created by writ in the 28th Edward I), and sister and co-heir of Edmund, Lord St. John, had an assignation of all the lands of her inheritance and, in some years afterwards, on the death of Margaret, the said Isabel's mother, he had a further assignation of the manors of Basing and Shireborne. This Lucas was in the wars of France, and had summons to parliament in his wife's barony (it is supposed) of St. John of Basing, from 24 February, 1368, to 20 January, 1376. His lordship d. about the year 1385, and was s. by his son, Sir Thomas Poynings, Knt. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 444, Poynings, Barons Poynings]

Family/Spouse: 4th Lord Bardolf William III Bardolf. William (son of 3rd Lord Bardolf John Bardolf and Elizabeth d'Amory) was born on 31 Oct 1349 in of Wormegay, Norfolk, England; died on 29 Jan 1385/86 in Friar Carmelites, Lynn, Norfolkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Thomas de Mortimer in 1386. Thomas died on 9 Jan 1402/03. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Richard de Poynings, 4th baron, summoned to parliament from 7 January, 1383, to 3 September, 1385. This nobleman m. Isabel, dau. and heir of Robert Grey, of Charlton-Grey, co. Somerset, who assumed the surname of Fitz-Payne, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. and co-heir of Sir Guy de Bryan; which Isabel inherited eventually the estates of her maternal grandfather as well as those of her father. Lord Poynings accompanied John of Gaunt into Spain, and dying there in 1387, was s. by his son, Robert de Poynings, 5th baron. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 444, Poynings, Barons Poynings]

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Thomas de Poynings, 3rd baron, b. 19 April, 1349, does not appear to have been summoned to parliament. This nobleman m. Blanche de Mowbray (who m. 2ndly, Sir John de Worthe, Knt.), but dying s. p. in 1375, was s. by his brother, Richard Poynings, 4th baron. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 444, Poynings, Barons Poynings]