(2) Simon
FitzPons, born about 1068 in Glouchestershire, England, died
1150. He was married about 1192 at Swell, Gloucestershire. Father of:
(3) Pons
(Pontius) FitzSimon, born about 1100, Swell, Glouchestershire,
England, living 1166, lord of Tockington and Swell, co. Gloucester. Father
of:
(4) Nicholas
Poyntz, born about 1132 in Tockington, Glouchestershire, England,
died 4 April 1222. Nicholas was lord of Tockington and Swell, co. Gloucester,
steward of Gilbert, Earl of Gloucester, 1217-30, keeper of Gloucester Casle,
keeper of the Honour of Dunster. Nicholas married Juliana,
died by 1219, daughter of Hugh Bardolf
and Isabel de Condet. Hugh was lord
of Waddington, Risehold and Scother, co. Lincoln, brother and heir Hamelin
Bardolf, living 1162, lord of Bungay, Suffolk. The parentage of Hugh and
Hamelin Bardolf is unknown, but they were closely related to Thomas Bardolf,
ancestor of the Lords Bardolf of Wormegay. Isabel de Condet (or Cundy),
living 1166, had land in South Carlton, co. Lincoln, and app. also in Grimston,
co. Nottingham as maritagium. Isabel's identity is proved by her maritagium
in South Carlton, co. Lincoln, which land was part of her mother's known
holding in that locality, temp. King Stephen, 1135-1154. Isabel was the
daughter of Robert de Condet, died
about 1141, and Adeliza de Meschines,
died 1128. Robert was lord of Thorngate Castle in the city of Lincoln,
and of Wickhambreux, Kent, Grinston, co. Nottingham, and South Carlton,
Thurlby, Eagle and Skellingthorpe, co. Lincoln. He was son of Osbert
de Condet (or Cundy), who died by 1130, lord of Wickhambreux,
Kent, Grimston, co. Nottingham, and South Calrton, Eagle and Skellingthorpe,
co. Lincoln, and his wife Adelaide
daughter and heir of William de Chesney,
lord of Caenby and Glentham, co. Lincoln. Nicholas Poyntz and Juliana Bardolf
were parents of:
(5) Hugh
Poyntz, born 1198; married at Curry Malet on 23 March 1217,
Somersetshire, England, Hawise, daughter
of William Malet and Alice
Picot. Sir William was a Magna Charta Surety, and Sheriff of
Somerset and Dorset. An adult by 1196, he was sheriff of Somerset and Dorset
in 1209, Magna Charta Surety
in 1215. Hawise's sister, Mabel, married Hugh de Vivonia, Baron of Chewton
and Steward of Poitou. Hawise married secondly on 4 February 1221 Sir Robert
de Muscegros. Hugh and Hawise were parents of:
(6) Nicholas
Poyntz, born in 1220, died before 7 October 1273. Sir Nicholas
was Lord of Tockington and Swell in Gloucestershire. In 1225 he was, through
his grandmother, coheir of Robert Bardolf,
and on death of his step-father in 1253/4 he received his mother's part,
half of the barony of Curre Malet, Somerset, along with 1/3 of the Basset
inheritance. He married Elizabeth,
daughter of Timothy Dyall (Visitation
of Essex). Parents of:
(7) Hugh
Poyntz, Baron of Cory Malet, born 25 August 1252, Tuckington,
Glouchestershire, England, died before 4 January 1307/1308. Sir Hugh was
first Lord Poyntz and held the manors of Curry Malet in Somerset, Tockington
in Gloucestershire, Hoo St. Werbergh and Lullingstone in Kent, Dullingham
in Cambridgeshire and Sutton in Dorset. It is probable his wife was Margaret,
daughter of Sir William Pavely. Father
of:
(8) Nicholas
Poyntz, Baron of Cory Malet and 2nd lord Poyntz, born 1278,
Tuckington, Glouchestershire, England, died before 12 July 1311. He was
married four times. Sir Nicholas was conservator of peace in Dorset (1307),
supervisor of the array in Somerset and Dorset (1311), held the manors
of Curry Malet in Somerset, Tockington in Gloucester, Hoo and Lullinstone
in Kent, Dullingham in Cambridge and Sutton and Stoke St. Edwald in Dorset.
He married first Elizabeth la Zouche. He married second Maud
or Matilda, daughter and eventual heir of Sir John
de Acton who died 1312 of Iron Action, Gloucester and his wife
Helen. Sir John was sheriff of Hereford
(1294-1299), sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordship (1304-1305), knight
of the shire of Hereford (1300 and 1301), and of Gloucester (1301). Maud
married second by April 12, 1315 Sir Roger de Chaundos (or Chandos), first
Lord Chaundos, Lord of Snodhill, Willington and Fownhope in Hereford, sheriff
of Hereford, co. Glamorgan and Morganweg, Keeper of Caephilly Castle. Nicholas
and Maud were parents of:
(9) Sir John
Poyntz, Knight, born about 1310, Tuckington, Glouchestershire,
England, died 24 February or 21 September 1376. He married 1351, Irchenfield,
Herefordshire, England, Elizabeth,
born 1312, Denchurch, Irchenfield, Herefordshire, England. She was the
daughter of Philip de Clanvowe, died
1347, and Philippa Talbot. Sir Philip
de Clanvowe was of Michaelchurch-on-Arrow, co. Radnor, and Yazor, King's
Pyon, Hergast and Ocle Pichard, Herefordshire. He was hereditary bailiff
in fee in the lordship of Gladestry, co. Radnor, deputy to his father-in-law
(Gilbert Talbot), then Justice of South Wales, commissioner for Gilbert
Talbot's castles. Philip is son and heir of William ap Hywel, living in
1286. Sir John Poyntz was Lord of Iron Acton, Winston and Elkstone, Gloucester,
which he received in 1343 through an agreement with his first cousin, Sir
John de Acton. He was also Sheriff of Gloucester (1368). Parents of:
(10) Robert
Poyntz, born 1359, christened 15 June 1359 at Denchurch, Irchenfield,
Herefordshire, England. He died 15 June 1439 and was buried at Iron Acton,
Gloucestershire, England. Robert Poyntz, Esq. was Lord of Iron Acton, Winston,
Elkstone and Acton Ulgar, Gloucester, and (in right of his wife) Lord of
Hull alias Hill and Nympsfield, Gloucester. He was escheator of Gloucester
in 1395, 1399, 1402 and 1415, and sherrif of the county in 1396. He married
first Anne (parents not known), d.s.p. He and wife Katherine
FitzNichol of the Berkeley family were the parents of:
(11) Nicholas
Poyntz, born about 1379 at Iron Action, Glouchestershire, England,
died 1449/1452. Sir Nicholas was Lord of Iron Action, Rockington, Swell,
Nympsfield, Winston and Elstone Gloucester), escheator for Gloucester (1424,
1434). He married about 1431 at Harescombe, Glouchestershire, England,
Elizabeth, born about 1411, Harescombe,
Glouchestershire, England, died about 1431. She was the daughter of Thomas
Myll, born about 1360, Harescombe, Gloucestershire, England,
died before 11 June 1422, buried in Harescombe, Gloucestershire, England,
and Juliana de Rous. He married second
Elizabeth, living 7 December 1470, daughter of Sir Henry Hussey of Harting,
Sussex. Nicholas Poyntz and Elizabeth Mill were parents of:
(12) Humphrey Poyntz, born about 1434 at Iron Action, Glouchestershire, England, died 10 October 1487. He married about 1431, Harescombe, Glouchestershire, England, Elizabeth, daughter and sole heir of Richard Pollard. Humphrey was Escheator of Devonshire 1460. Parents of: