Joan Criol

• Preferred Name: Joan Criol
  
• Alternate Name: Joan De Kerle
  
• Gender: F
  
• FSID: L1SG-8FD
  
• Birth: 1271 in Westwood, Preston, Kent, England at LATI: N1.3043 LONG: E0.2268
  
• Death: 18 MAR 1323 in Ruxley, Kent, England at LATI: N1.3745 LONG: E0.0846
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “THOMAS DE POYNINGS, Knt., of Poynings, Slaugham, and Twineham, Sussex, Bures, Suffolk, etc., son and heir. He married about 1317 AGNES DE ROKESLEY (or ROKESLE), daughter and co-heiress of Richard de Rokesley, Knt., of Westwood (in Preston) and Ruxley, Kent, Aldbury, Hertfordshire, etc., Seneschal of Poitou, Governor of Poitou and Montreuil, by Joan, daughter of Bertram de Criol. She was born about 1299 (aged 22 in 1321). They had five sons, Michael, Knt. [1st Lord Poynings], Thomas, John, Luke [4th Lord Saint John], and Richard. In 1323 he was preparing for service in Scotland under John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey. In 1324 he was going to Aquitaine with Edmund, Earl of Kent. He took part in the Dunstable tournament in 1333. He was summoned for service against the Scots in 1335 and 1337. In 1336 he was appointed one of the custodians of the ports and coasts of Surrey and Sussex against the Scots and their foreign allies. In 1337 he was granted an annuity of 200 marks, until he should receive an equivalent in land, in recognition of his good services to the king's late brother, John of Eltham, and of his then engagement with the king. He served with a retinue in the king's expedition to Flanders in 1338. He was present at Antwerp in July 1339. SIR THOMAS DE POYNINGS was killed in an attack on the castle of Honnecourt, on the St. Quentin canal, arr. Cambrai 10 October 1339. His widow, Agnes, died shortly before 22 Dec. 1346, and was buried at Poynings, Sussex. Ireland Hist. of the County of Kent 4 (1830): 529-530. Procs. Soc. Antiq. 3 (1856): 160-161 (re. Rokesley family). Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 275,298. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-49. List of Inqs. ad Quod Damnum 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 22) (1906): 671. VCH Herfford 2 (1908): 143-148. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 183,189,209. C.P. 10 (1945): 659-660 (sub Poynings). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 45. D.N.B. 17 (1909): 155-156 (biog. of Gregory de Rokesley). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 159:1-5 (sub Criol). National Archives, SC 8/67/3338 (petition dated c.1324 by Thomas de Poningges and Agnes his wife to the king and council, who state that Bartholomew de Badlesmere held certain tenements of Richard de Rokesle, of his manor of Westwood, Kent, which now belongs to Thomas and Agnes, who is his daughter and one of his heirs, and that they were always seised of the services due for these tenements until they were taken into the king's hand because of Bartholomew's forfeiture. Thomas and Agnes request a remedy.) (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
  Children of Thomas de Poynings, Knt., by Agnes de Rokesley:
  i. MICHAEL DE POYNINGS, Knt., In Lord Poynings [see next].
  ii. LUKE DE POYNINGS, 4th Lord Saint John of Basing, married ISABEL DE SAINT JOHN [see PAULET 10].”
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.45, 50; ENGLAND PUB AF NS VOL 23 P.341; ENGLAND PUBLICATION AE 5S VOL 9 P.85; (GS NUMBER 942 D22K) VOL 4; (GS NUMBER 942 B2GQM); (GS NUMBER 942 D22K); THE COMPLETE PEERAGE VOL 10;

• m. ABT 1294 in England

1. Agnes Rokesley, b. MAY 1299 in Ruxley, Kent, England, United Kingdom     d. 22 DEC 1349 in Poynings, Sussex, England, United Kingdom