Ancestral Trails 2016 » Robert POYNTZ (1450-1520)

Personal data Robert POYNTZ 

• He was born in the year 1450 in Iron Acton, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire.
• He died on November 4, 1520 in Gloucestershire, he was 70 years old.
• A child of John POYNTZ and Alice COX

Household of Robert POYNTZ

He is married to Margaret WOODVILLE.

They got married in the year 1477 at Iron Acton, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, he was 27 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Anthony POYNTZ  1480-1535 
2. John POYNTZ  1484-1544 
3. Anne POYNTZ  1478-1528 

Notes about Robert POYNTZ

During Edward IV’s reign, Robert Poyntz had been made constable of Carisbroke Castle and of St. Briavel’s (holding the latter office along with his father-in-law) and sheriff of Hampshire. Soon after Anthony’s arrest, the future Richard III stripped Poyntz of these offices. Later, he was replaced as steward of Sodbury. Not surprisingly, Poyntz was among those who rebelled against Richard III in the fall of 1483. He ended up in sanctuary at Beaulieu, where Anthony’s younger brother Lionel, Bishop of Salisbury, had also taken shelter. Poyntz was later pardoned, but in 1485 he fought for Henry Tudor at Bosworth Field. Following the battle, he was knighted on the field. It was the beginning of a long career in Tudor service for Poyntz, who was present at the Field of Cloth of Gold in 1520, where he appeared as a member of Katharine of Aragon’s household. King Francis gave him a gift of plate.

Margaret predeceased Robert, who died on November 5, 1520. In his will, made in October 1520, he asked that a black gown of Margaret’s be made into vestments for the Chapel of Jesus at the “church of the Gaunts beside Bristol,” where he asked to be buried. The vestments were to contain Robert’s arms and those of his wife. Barker, writing in 1892, described the chapel thusly:

"The Chapel is entered by a panelled doorway, the sides of which are splayed. The fan-traceried roof is arranged in two main divisions, and in the centre of each is a boss in the form of a carved shield of arms. That to the East contains the arms of Henry VIII. and Catharine of Arragon, and that to the West, those of Sir Robert Poyntz and his wife Margaret Woodville, daughter of Anthony, Earl Rivers.
SOURCE: http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/subpages/margaretwood.html

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