Robert Poynings
| Sir Robert Poynings | |
|---|---|
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Paston |
| Issue | |
| Father | Robert Poynings, 4th Baron Poynings |
| Mother | Eleanor Grey |
| Born | c.1419 |
| Died | 17 February 1461 St Albans |
Sir Robert Poynings (c.1419 – 17 February 1461), was the second son of Robert Poynings, 4th Baron Poynings (1382–1446). He joined the rebellion of Jack Cade in 1450, and was slain fighting on the Yorkist side at the Second Battle of St Albans in 1461.
Robert Poynings was the second son of Robert Poynings, 4th Baron Poynings (1382 – 2 October 1446), by his first wife Eleanor Grey, the daughter of Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, and Margaret Roos (or Ros). By his father's first marriage, he had an elder brother, Sir Richard Poynings (d. 10 June 1429), slain near Orleans in France, and a younger brother, Edward Poynings (d.1484), Master of Trinity College in Arundel, Sussex, and rector of North Cray, Kent.
By his father's second marriage to Margaret Squery (d. 3 November 1448), widow of Sir William Cromer (d. January 1434), Lord Mayor of London, elder daughter of Thomas Squery of Westerham, Kent, Robert Poynings had a half sister, Eleanor Poynings, who married Thomas Palmer.
The 4th Baron had settled the manors of Tirlingham, Newington, Eastwell and Westwood in Kent on his granddaughter, Eleanor Poynings (1428–1484), wife of Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, and daughter of Robert Poynings' elder brother, Sir Richard Poynings, by his second wife, Eleanor Berkeley. Robert Poynings claimed these manors against Eleanor 'as heir by gavelkind', claiming as well the manor of Great Perching in Sussex. He also claimed the 4th Baron's moveable goods against William Cromer, son of Margaret Squery by her first husband, Sir William Cromer.
In the summer of 1450 Poynings joined the rebel Jack Cade, and is said to have acted as Cade's 'carver and sword-bearer'. He was imprisoned and outlawed as a result, despite which he was elected a Member of Parliament for Sussex in 1450 and 1451. In 1457 he sued a pardon for his participation in Cade's rebellion.
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