Other Events:

• Decoration: by 1423; Knighthood
• Office: 1423; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Sussex
• Will: 20 July 1428
• Probate: 31 Oct. 1430

Notes:

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

Will:
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.

Probate:
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.), Luffenam 14.

Family/Spouse: Joan Seamer. Joan (daughter of Henry Seamer) died in 1420; was buried in Church of St. Helen, Bishopsgate, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eleanor Berkeley. Eleanor (daughter of Sir John Berkeley and Elizabeth Betteshorne) died on 1 Aug. 1455. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Eleanor (Poynings), de jure suo jure Baroness Poynings was born circa 1422; died in Feb. 1483/84.

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: 1387; 4th Lord Poynings [E., 1348]
• Office: March 1410/11; Privy Councillor (P.C.)
• Office: 1413; Commissioner of the peace in Surrey
• Office: 1415; Commissioner of array in Sussex

Notes:

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, app[ointed] attorneys before going abroad.

He was summoned to Parliament presumably from 25 August (1404) 5 Hen. IV, certainly from 21 December (1405) 7 Hen. IV to 13 January (1444/45) 23 Hen. VI.

In June 1409 he was a commissioner to raise money in Somerset.

In January 1419/20 he was 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.

In February 1420/21 he served Queen Catherine at her Coronation feast in London.

In July 1423 he fought at Cravant under the Earl of Salisbury.

In February 1423/24 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 Verneuil in August 1424.

In July 1437 he was summoned to the funeral of Queen Joan, widow of Henry IV, at Canterbury.

In February 1440/41 he was joint commissioner for payment of the subsidy in Sussex.

Robert married Hon. Eleanor Grey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]