POYNINGS, Sir Richard (d.1429), of Slagham, Suss. and Okeford Fitzpayn, Dorset.

1st s. of Robert, 4th Lord Poynings (1382-1446), of Poynings, Suss.; CIPM, xviii. 990. er. bro. of Robert*. m. (1) Joan (d.1420), da. of Henry Somer*, s.p.; She was buried in St. Helen’s priory, Bishopsgate, London: J. Stow, Surv. London ed. Kingsford, i. 172. Stow, who in the first edn. of his survey correctly gave her fa.’s name as Henry Somer, later changed it to ‘Seamer’. He read the inscription on her brass as ‘obiit virgo 1420’: R. Gough, Sepulchral Monuments, ii (2), 55. (2) by contract 8 Apr. and bef. 16 June 1423, Suff. RO, Bury St. Edmunds, Hengrave mss, 449/2/648. Eleanor was still single at Pentecost (23 May), but they had married by 16 June: ibid. 449/2/663; CP40/671, rot. 537d. Eleanor (d. 1 Aug. 1455), da. of Sir John Berkeley† of Beverstone, Glos. by Elizabeth, da. and h. of John Betteshorne† of Bisterne, Hants; sis. of Sir Maurice Berkeley II* and wid. of Sir John Arundel (d.1421), Lord Mautravers and de jure earl of Arundel, 2s. 1da. Kntd. by June 1423.