Nicholas was the son of Hugh Poyntz and Hawise Malet.[1][2][3][4] His parents married before 23 March 1216/7 and, when his father died (shortly before 4 April 1220[5][6]), he was under age:[3] his birth date has been estimated as about 1220 but may have been a bit before that. His parents had lands in several counties and his birth place is not known.
During his minority, Nicholas's wardship was granted to his uncle Ralph Poyntz.[7]
Nicholas is recorded as fighting in France in 1242[3][4] and in Wales in the period 1258 to 1273.[1] According to Douglas Richardson, he joined in the baronial rebellion led by Simon de Montfort against Henry III in 1264-5 as one of the affinity of John Giffard,[3][4][8] and he received a pardon in 1268.[9] But Cokayne suggests he stayed loyal to the king.[1]
Lands and Inheritances
In 1225 Nicholas was co-heir to Robert Bardolf, brother of his paternal grandmother.[3][4]
When Nicholas's stepfather Robert de Muscegros, died (shortly before 29 January 1253/4), Nicholas inherited his mother's share of the Barony of Curry Malet in Somerset.[3][4][10]
Nicholas held lands in a number of counties, including Cambridgeshire, DorsetGloucestershire, Kent, Somerset and Wiltshire.[3][4][7] His Inquisitions Post Mortem record him holding the manors of Curry Malet in Somerset, Hoo in Kent and Sutton in Dorset, and as having transferred lands in Cambridgeshire and Gloucestershire to his son Hugh.[11]
Death
Nicholas died a little before 7 October 1273.[3][4]
Research Notes
Previously-attached Child
Maud Poyntz has previously been shown as a daughter of Nicholas. No reliable evidence has been found for this.
Sources
↑ 1.01.11.21.3 G E Cokayne. Complete Peerage, revised edition, Vol. X, St Catherine Press, 1945, pp. 672-673, Familysearch
↑ 2.02.12.2 Walter C Metcalfe (ed.). The Visitations of Essex, Part I, Harleian Society, 1878, p. 268, Internet Archive
↑ 3.03.13.23.33.43.53.63.73.83.9 Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. III, pp. 281-282, OWSLEY 3
↑ 4.04.14.24.34.44.54.64.74.8 Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. IV, pp. 288-289, OWSLEY 5
↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 218, MUSCEGROS 2, Google Books
↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 199, MUSCEGROS 2
↑ 7.07.1 John Maclean. An Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Poyntz, Part I, 1886, pp. 10-13, Internet Archive
↑ John Collinson. The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset, Vol. I, R Cruttwell, 1791, p. 33, Internet Archive
↑Calendar of the Patent Rolls, henry III, A.D. 1266-1272, HMSO, 1913, p. 222, Familysearch (image 230)
↑ I J Sanders. English Baronies, a Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford University Press, 1960, p. 39
↑ Frederick Lewis Weis. Ancestral Roots of certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 8th ediutiuion, Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, p. 211, line 234A/30
Acknowledgements
Magna Carta Project
This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 7 March 2023.
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