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Agnes Rokesley
- Preferred Name: Agnes Rokesley[1] [2] [3]
- Alternate Name: De Poynings
- Gender: F
- Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Agnes-de-Rokesley/6000000006444750653?through=6000000006444764666
- Birth: MAY 1299 in Ruxley, Kent, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.3745 LONG: E0.0846
- Burial: 1349 in Holy Trinity Churchyard Poynings, Mid Sussex District, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N0.981 LONG: E0.3385
- Find A Grave: with note: Description: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123808914/agnes-de_poynings
- Death: 22 DEC 1349 in Poynings, Sussex, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N0.8944 LONG: E0.2035
- FSID: KCTG-TX5
- 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.”
=== M E Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees P 50 ===
M E Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees P 50
=== From the collection of Jerry Dean Ferren ===
From the collection of Jerry Dean Ferren.
=== Agnes was one of the co-heirs of John, ===
Agnes was one of the co-heirs of John, son of Bartholomew d e Cryol. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited , and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883 , p. 444, Poynings, Baron St. John, of Basing] This file is as error-free as my sources. IF you should di scover an error, I would appreciate it if you would bring i t to my attention and provide me with the correct informati on and source for that information. Many thanks.
Preferred Parents:
Father: Richard Rokesley, b. 1270 in Preston, Kent, England d. 1321 in Westwood by Ramsgate, Kent, England
Mother: Joan Criol, b. 1271 in Westwood, Preston, Kent, England d. 18 MAR 1323 in Ruxley, Kent, England
Family 1: Thomas de Poynings, b. 1294 in Poynings, Sussex, England, United Kingdom
- m. ABT 1317 in Poynings, Sussex, England
- Lucas Poynings, b. 1323 in Poynings, Sussex, England d. 5 JUN 1376 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
Sources:
- Title: UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
Author: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 May 2018), memorial page for Agnes de Rokesle de Poynings (1300–1349), Find A Grave Memorial no. 123808914, citing Holy Trinity Churchyard, Poynings, Mid Sussex District, West Sussex, England ; Maintained by Todd Whitesides (contributor 47553735) .
Publication: Name: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123808914;
Note: Agnes de Rokesle de Poynings
Birth 1300
Death 1349 (aged 48–49)
Burial Holy Trinity Churchyard, Poynings, Mid Sussex District, West Sussex, England
Memorial ID 123808914
- Title: Agnes de Rokesle de Poynings, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGJ-NP1F : 15 June 2022), Agnes de Rokesle de Poynings, ; Burial, Poynings, Mid Sussex District, West Sussex, England, Holy Trinity Churchyard; citing record ID 123808914, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGJ-NP1F;
- Title: Poynings in "Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom" (Cokayne 1945) see page in memories
Author: Cokayne, George Edward (1945) "Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom - Vol. X: Oakham to Richmond", 2nd edition. London: The St Catherine Press. pp. 656-665
Page: Thomas Poynings "m., about 1317, Agnes (aged 22 and more in May 132 I), yr. da. and coho of Richard DE ROKESLEY, of Westwood (in Preston) and Ruxley, Kent, by Joan, heir of her br. Bertram DE CRIOL, and da. of Bertram DE CRIOL (d. 1295), by Eleanor, yr. da. and coho of Maud D'AvRANCHES." (Cokayne 1945:660)
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