Adam de Poynings I the Elder

• Preferred Name: Adam de Poynings I the Elder
  
• Alternate Name: Adam de Poynings
  
• Gender: M
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Adam-de-Poynings-l/6000000002006265617?through=6000000003513245796
  
• Birth: 1 OCT 1100 in Poynings, Sussex, England at LATI: N0.8939 LONG: E0.2104 with note: United Kingdom not before 1801
  
• Death: 7 APR 1147 in Poynings, Sussex, England at LATI: N0.8939 LONG: E0.2104 with note: Removed UK from location.
  
• Christening: in Poynings, Sussex, England at LATI: N0.8939 LONG: E0.2104 with note: Removed UK from location.
  
• FSID: GH2M-VGN
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  This Adam the elder had Adam the younger, plus two other sons, John and William, younger sons. John witnessed as John de Puninges a Norfolk charter of William de Warenne, the 3rd Earl, to Lewes Priory, and as John de Punigges, in company with the Earl, another Norfolk charter to the priory. After his death several benefactions were made to his memory. The Earl made a gift to Castle Acre Priory for his soul; and confirmed the gift made to Lewes Priory by William and Adam sons of Beatrice de Puningis for the soul of John their brother, namely 10 marks, from Poynings mill. This latter gift was confirmed by Adam de Ponnynges (the younger), describing it as made by William his brother and Beatrice his mother for the soul of John his brother. Another commemorative gift was made by William de Chesney and Aubreye his wife, which Aubreye is described as sister of Adam son of Adam de Pynyngis in a charter post 1164. This evidence suggests that John died after his father Adam the elder, who must therefore have died during the tenure of the Earldom by the third Earl, and therefore before his departure for the crusade in 1147.
  
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  === M E Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees P. 35 ===
  M E Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees P. 35
  
  === WILLIAM (son of RAINALD) was the tenant ===
  WILLIAM (son of RAINALD) was the tenant of William de Warenne in 1086 in Poynings, Pangdean, and elsewhere in Sussex, in Foulden, Norfolk, and in Wrentham and elsewhere in Suffolk. Although there is no evidence to prove that he was the lineal ancestor, he was certainly the predecessor in Sussex of ADAM DE POYNINGS, who with Beatrice his wife and Adam their son gave to Lewes Priory the churches of Poynings and Pangdean, with 12 solidates of land in specified places in Sussex and 5 messmacges in Lewes, which gifts were confirmed by William, (third) Earl de Warenne, 1138-47. Adam de Poynings the elder died ante 1148 (d). [Complete Peerage X:656, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
  (d) See page 657, note (a). [This note actually says bef. 1147.]
  
  Domesday tenant.
  
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  Lord of Poynings, Sussex. He is called William Fitz Rainald in Domesday. There is no evidence to prove he is the father of Adam, but he is certainly his predecessor in Sussex. He was the tenant of William de Warenne in 1086 in Poynings, Pangdean, and elsewhere in Sussex; in Foulden, Norfolk; and in Wrentham and elsewhere in Suffolk. [Domesday People]

• m. ABT 1135 in Poynings, Sussex, England

1. Gilla de Poynings, b. 1138 in Poynings, Sussex, England, United Kingdom    
2. Albreda Aubreye de Poynings, b. ABT 1137 in Poynings, Sussex, England     d. ABT 1174 in Blythburgh, Suffolk, England
3. Adam de Poynings II the Younger, b. ABT 1126 in Poynings, Sussex, England     d. 29 SEP 1202 in Poynings, Sussex, England