Nicholas Poyntz, KB, MP^[1]

1535 - 1585  (~ 50 years)

• Name	Nicholas Poyntz  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  		Pedigree of Poyntz of Iron Acton McClean, John, Pedigree of Poyntz of Iron Acton Memoir of the Family of Poyntz (Exeter, UK: William Pollard & Co., 1886)(2 parts)
  		Arms of Poyntz
  Suffix	KB, MP
  Born	ca. 1535	Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England   [10, 11]
  		Acton Court
  Gender	Male
  Church Affiliation	Roman Catholic
  Civil	1569	Gloucestershire, England   [12]
  	Sheriff
  Civil	1571	Knight of the Shire   [12]
  Will	22 Jun 1585
  Died	1 Sep 1585	Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England   [13, 14, 15]
  Probate	15 Feb 1586/87
  Notes	Poyntz was knighted in 1559 and held the office at court of Esquire of the Body by 1560. (The Esquire of the Body was responsible for conducting the affairs of the Royal household.) He retired to Gloucester, however--it was said he would as soon go to hell as go to court. His Catholic sympathies were known but were not such as would disqualify him from government service.
  Person ID	I1970	Dickinson
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2017

  
  

  Father	Nicholas Poyntz,   b. 1510, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England ,   d. bef. 8 Jul 1557, Gloucestershire, England  (Age 47 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Joan Berkeley,   b. 1510, Hovingham, Yorkshire ,   d. 31 Mar 1563, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England  (Age 53 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Married	24 Jun 1527	Yate, Gloucester, England   [17, 18]
  	"Sir Nicholas Poyntz made his will 26th Feb., 1555-6. He names his son and heir Nicholas and his younger sons Francis, Anthony, Edmund, and John, but not his two daughters Frances and Anne, To his wife Dame Johan he gives his new house at Osilworth that standeth on the hill and the parke during her life, remainder to his second son Prancis for life. The will was proved by Johan Poyntz relict and executrix, 3rd July, 1557." [16]
  Family ID	F0597	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Anne Verney,   b. ca. 1538, Pendley Manor, Tring, Hertfordshire ,   d. Bef 1575  (Age ~ 37 years)
  Married	12 May 1555	Pendley Manor, Tring, Hertfordshire   [20, 21]
  	"The marriage of Sir Nicholas Poyntz with one of the two daughters of Sir Ralph Verney is recorded on a monument in the middle of Clayton Church, co. Bucks. The other daughter married Sir Francis Hynde, of Madingby, co. Cambridge, Knt. (Topographer, vol. ii, p. 366.) Two of these ladies' brothers were tried for their share in Dudley's conspiracy. (Verney Papers, Camden Society.)" [19]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Poyntz,   b. 1558, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England ,   d. Oct 1591, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England  (Age 33 years)  [Birth]   2. Ursula Poyntz  [Birth] + 3. John Poyntz,   b. ca. 1560, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England ,   d. Nov 1633, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, Englan  (Age ~ 73 years)  [Birth]
  Last Modified	31 Mar 2017
  Family ID	F0596	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Margaret Stanley,   d. 1586, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
  Married	Y  [23]
  	"A similar phrase ("juxta usitatam ecclesise Anglican* computationem" ["the use of the Church of England reckoning"]) occurs on the next slab, that of Hugh Poyntz, who died as a young man in March 1604. * * * The three here named, Edward, Hugh, and Robert, were sons of Sir Nicholas Poyntz of Iron Acton, by his second wife, the Lady Margaret Stanley, daughter of Edward, 3rd Earl of Derby." [22]
  Children	+ 1. Edward Poyntz of Caerleon,   b. 1575, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England ,   d. 5 Oct 1613  (Age 38 years)  [Birth]   2. Hugh Poyntz of Tockington Park,   b. 1578, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England ,   d. 11 Mar 1604/5  (Age 27 years)  [Birth]   3. Robert Poyntz,   b. 1580, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England ,   bur. St. James the Less Church, Iron Acton, Glouchestershire, England  [Birth]
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2017
  Family ID	F1806	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - ca. 1535 - Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England Married - 12 May 1555 - Pendley Manor, Tring, Hertfordshire Civil - Sheriff - 1569 - Gloucestershire, England Died - 1 Sep 1585 - Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S336467] History of Parliament Online, published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993, (The History of Parliament Trust ), http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/poyntz-sir-nicholas-1528-85. [S057838] A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extincy and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland, 2nd Ed., Burke, John, (Londo: John Russell Smith, 1844; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977), 545. [S057357] Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 1: 580. [S057222] Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Poyntz; or, Eight centuries of an English house (2 parts), Sir John McClean, (Exeter, UK: William Pollard & Co. 1886), 79-82. [S057424] The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, (The History of Parliament Trust 1964-2019), 3: 243. [S057435] Lists and Indexes, Public Record Office, London, 9: 51. [S057353] Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Wills: 42 Brudenell. [S057448] The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Paget, Gerald, (London: Charles Skilton, 1977), 2: 115. [S057856] The Visitation of Buckinghamshire in 1634, Rylands, W. Harry, ed., (London: Ye Wardour Presss, 1909), 123. [S057222] Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Poyntz; or, Eight centuries of an English house (2 parts), Sir John McClean, (Exeter, UK: William Pollard & Co. 1886), 1: 79. [S057357] Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Vol. 1, 580. [S057357] Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Vol. 1, 579. [S057222] Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Poyntz; or, Eight centuries of an English house (2 parts), Sir John McClean, (Exeter, UK: William Pollard & Co. 1886), 1: 80, 96. [S336467] History of Parliament Online, published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993, (The History of Parliament Trust ). [S057357] Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Vol. 1, 581. [S057222] Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Poyntz; or, Eight centuries of an English house (2 parts), Sir John McClean, (Exeter, UK: William Pollard & Co. 1886), 1: 75. [S336375] Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2004), 595. [S057222] Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Poyntz; or, Eight centuries of an English house (2 parts), Sir John McClean, (Exeter, UK: William Pollard & Co. 1886), 1: 72. "On Midsummer Day 1528 [Nicholas Poyntz] married Joan youngest daughter of Thomas V, Lord Berkeley at her father's house at Yate. This was the alliance which was intended to heal all animosities between the two families to which we have before alluded (ante p. 65), but it failed of having that effect." [S057222] Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Poyntz; or, Eight centuries of an English house (2 parts), Sir John McClean, (Exeter, UK: William Pollard & Co. 1886), 1: 75 FN 1. [S057222] Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Poyntz; or, Eight centuries of an English house (2 parts), Sir John McClean, (Exeter, UK: William Pollard & Co. 1886), 1: 74-75. At the 1557 inquisition post mortem for Nicholas Poyntz (d. 1556) "the jurors say that the said Anthony had issue the said Nicholas Poyntz, Knt., who had issue Nicholas Poyntz, and recites the marriage contract dated 12th May, 1st and 2nd Philip and Mary (1555), between the said Nicholas, son and heir apparent of the aforesaid Nicholas and Johanna his wife, and Anne Yerney, one of the daughters of Sir Ealph Verney...." [S057357] Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, vol. 1, 579. [S25] Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucester Archaelogical Society, "The Poyntz Family," Rev. H. L. Thompson, M. A. (1879). [S057222] Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Poyntz; or, Eight centuries of an English house (2 parts), Sir John McClean, (Exeter, UK: William Pollard & Co. 1886), 1: 82. "Sir Nicholas Poyntz married secondly Margaret Stanley, daughter by his second wife of Edward third Earl of Derby, whose splendour and eminent services are eulogised by Camden and other his contemporaries. She was the relict of John Jermyn of Eushbrook, co. Somerset, by whom she had no issue. By this lady Sir Nicholas Poyntz had issue :?1, Edward, born in 1575; 2, Hugh, born 1578; 3, Robert, born 1580."