Margery (Gyse) Poyntz

Ancestors

Wife of John Poyntz — married before Sep 1362 in England

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Biography

Marriages

Married: 1st - Ralph Bluet.

Married: 2nd - Sir John Poyntz of Iron Acton. They were married by September 1362 when John Poyntz and Margery his wife sued for one third of the manors Stradewy and Egleshelgh as dower from her first husband, Ralph Bluet. Ralph Bluet had first been married to Elizabeth daughter of Rees ap Rees. In 1372, Elizabeth Picot the granddaughter of Ralph Bluet by his first wife, sued John Poyntz and Margery for the manor of Thurleston; Margery was still holding this manor in dower at the time of her death. Margery died one month after her husband with a writ issued to take her IPM on 14 July 1376. A repeat writ of diem clausit extremum was issued on 23 January 1377 for Margery late the wife of Ralph Bluet, presumably to inquire as to what she held in dower from her first husband. This IPM survives and shows that she died 24 March 1376 without issue by either husband, and that her heir was her nephew Anselm Gyse, son of her brother Anselm Gyse.

Death

Died: 24 March 1376

Date from IPM.

Died on Monday before the Annunciation, 50 Edward III.

She died without children by either husband, Her heir was her nephew, Anselm de Gyse (son of brother Anselm de Gyse).

Records

Inquisitions Post Mortem

Margery late wife of Ralph Bluet

Writ touching the lands held by her of the heirs of Humphrey de Bohun, late earl of Hereford, minors in the king’s wardship. 23 January, 50 Edward III. [1377] ^[1]

HEREFORD. Inq. taken at Hereford, Thursday before Palm Sunday, 41 (recte 51) Edward III.

Thorglestone. The manor, held jointly with the said Ralph, to them and the heirs of their bodies, by gift and feoffment of Walter Bluet and William Scernecote, with remainder to the right heirs of the said Ralph. It is held of the heirs of the aforesaid earl by service of doing suit to the court of the earl of Hereford at Gloucester every month. Ralph and Margery died without heirs of their bodies.

Margery died on Monday before the Annunciation, 50 Edward III. Anselm de Gyse, son of Anselm de Gyse her brother, is her next heir. Elizabeth wife of Bartholomew Bigot, knight, aged 20 years and more, is heir of the said Ralph Bluet, to wit, daughter of John his son and heir. The manor falls to her by reason of the above gift.

Sources

1. ↑ A. E. Stamp, J. B. W. Chapman, Cyril Flower, M. C. B. Dawes and L. C. Hector. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 259," in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 14, Edward III, (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1952), 288-304. British History Online, accessed June 1, 2017, [1].