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(g) The earliest bearer in England of the christian name Poinz or Pons(Pontius), from which the family name Poyntz was developed, appears to bePonz, who gave 3 hides in the manor of Eaton Hastings, Berks, toWestminster Abbey, and had succeeded there before 1086, when Walter sonof Pons held that manor in chief. He was probably the Pons who witnesseda charter of the Conqueror to the abbey of Fecamp shortly before theConquest. Walter, son of Pons, from whom the family of Hastings of EatonHastings probably descended, was also a tenant-in-chief in Leach, co.Gloucester, where Drew (Drogo) son of Pons (presumably his brother) hadan equivalent holding in chief. Osbert son of Pons, presumably anotherbrother, was given Longney on Severn, Glos, by William I, and gave itwith the church to Malvern Priory in the time of Henry I, not later than1127. As Osbern son of Pontius he had made an earlier (but noteffective) gift of the church of Longney, with a fishery there, toPershore Abbey on behalf of his son Ralph, a monk. He was probably theOsbert son of Poinz or Ponc' who was pardoned Danegeld in Glos and Bucksin 1130. Another member of the family was Richard son of Pons, who m.Maud, daughter of Walter of Gloucester. She had from her father inmarriage, Ullingswick, co. Gloucester. Their eldest son Simon occurs asa knight shortly before 1129, and from their son Walter the family ofClifford descended. [Complete Peerage X:669-70 note (g)]
Ponz (no surname or ancestry)
Ponz (no surname or ancestry)
Pons or Poinz or Pontius (no surname or ancestry).