POYNINGS, Robert (c.1418-61), of Wrentham, Suff. and Twineham, Suss. and Croydon and Southwark, Surr. and Maidstone, Kent.

b. c.1418, C139/126/24. yr. s. of Robert, 4th Lord Poynings (1382-1446), by his w. Eleanor; yr. bro. or half-bro. of Sir Richard*. educ. Winchester Coll. 1430-3. Archaeologica, lxxv. 151-2; Winchester Coll. muns, typscript list of commoners, comp. Leach, 22. m. 1458, Elizabeth (c.1429-1487), Her will, dated 18 May 1487, was proved on 26 June that year (PCC 12 Milles, printed in Paston Letters ed. Davis, i. 210-14), but the date of her death was given in her inq. post mortem as 1 Feb. 1488: CIPM Hen. VII, i. 434, 436. da. of William Paston j.c.p. (1378-1444) by Agnes (d.1479), da. and coh. of Sir Edmund Berry of Horwellbury, Herts.; sis. of John Paston*, 1s. Sir Edward†.