POYNINGS, Sir Edward (1459-1521), of Westenhanger, Kent.

Family and Education

b. autumn 1459, o. s. of Robert Poynings of Maidstone by Elizabeth, da. of Sir William Paston of Paston, Norf.; half-bro. of Sir Matthew Browne. m. by 1485, Elizabeth or Isabel (d.1528), da. of Sir John Scott of Scot’s Hall, Smeath, Kent, 1s. d.v.p. ; 3s. 4da. illegit. suc. fa. 17 Feb. 1461. Kntd. 7 Aug. 1485, KG 1493, banneret Aug. 1513.Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s i.p.m., quoted Paston Letters, ed. Gairdner, ii. 329. DNB; Suss. Arch. Colls. xv. 16; Arch. Cant. xxxvii. 116; Mill Stephenson, Mon. Brasses, 212; H.H. Leonard, ‘Knights and knighthood in Tudor Eng.’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1970), 220n.

Offices Held

Councillor 1485; j.p. Kent 1485; knight of the body by 1488; dep. lt. Calais 1493; dep. [I] 1494 – 96; lt. Dover castle by 1496, constable 1504 – d.; dep. warden, Cinque Ports 1505 – 09, warden 1509 – d.; comptroller, the Household by 1509–19 or later, treasurer 1519 – d.; commr. subsidy, Kent 1512, 1514, 1515, royal household 1515; other commissions, London and Kent 1489 – d.; lt. Tournai Sept. 1513-Jan. 1515.Hall, Chron. 424, 465–6, 524; CPR, 1485–94, p. 250, 1494–1509, pp. 12, 62, 427; Rymer, Foedera, v(4), 69; Cinque Ports White and Black Bks. (Kent Arch. Soc. recs. br. xix), 119–20; LP Hen. VIII, i-iii; Chron. Calais (Cam. Soc. xxxv), 8; Statutes, iii. 79, 112, 168, 172.

Parlimentarian

POYNINGS, Sir Edward (1459-1521), of Westenhanger, Kent.

Main residence: Westenhanger, Kent.

Author

H.M.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

POYNINGS, Sir Edward (1459-1521)

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Oxford 1644

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