Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: 2 Oct. 1446 – Feb. 1483/84; de jure suo jure (5th) Baroness Poynings [E., 1337 or 1348]

Notes:

She and her husband had licence to enter into her inheritance in November 1446.

Eleanor married Henry (Percy), 3rd Earl of Northumberland On or before 25 June 1435. Henry (son of Henry (Percy), 2nd Earl of Northumberland and Lady Eleanor Neville) was born on 25 July 1421; died on 29 March 1461 in Towton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Henry (Percy), 4th Earl of Northumberland was born circa 1449; died on 28 April 1489 in Cock Lodge, Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Beverley Minster, Beverley, Yorkshire, England.

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.

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

Other Events:

• Will: 20 July 1455
• Probate: 23 Aug. 1455

Notes:

Will:
Her will, dated 20 July, proven 23 August 1455 (P.C.C., Stokton 3—Abstract in Test. Vetusta, page 277), directs burial with her first husband at Arundel. See Sussex Arch. Coll., volume lxxvi, page 64; Gough, Sepulchral Monuments, volume ii, plates 22, 45.

Probate:
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.), Stokton 3.

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]

Other Events:

• Residence: Beverstone, Gloucestershire, England

John married Elizabeth Betteshorne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: Betteshorne, Sopley, Hampshire, England