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Eleanor POYNINGS

Eleanor POYNINGS[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]

Female 1421 - 1484  (62 years)

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  • Name Eleanor POYNINGS  [13
    Born 25 Jul 1421  Poynings, Suffolk, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [13
    Gender Female 
    AFN 8HR3-3L 
    FamilySearch ID MMXP-1WV 
    Title (Nobility)   [14
    Countess of Northumberland 
    Title (Nobility) 1466  [14
    5th Baroness Poynings 
    TitleOfNobility 1466  [14
    Baroness Poynings 
    Name Alianor  [14
    _UID 5D2C6DC5F4FF44528C41DEA28BCCDD8F54A8 
    Died Feb 1484  Raby Castle, Durham, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [13
    Buried 6 Feb 1484  Staindrop, Durham, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [14
    Person ID I5011  Carney Wehofer Feb 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 11 Dec 2022 

    Father Richard de POYNINGS,   b. 1 Aug 1400, Poynings, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Jun 1429, Orl?ans, Loiret, Centre, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 28 years) 
    Mother Eleonore BERKELEY,   b. 1400, Berverston, Gloucestershire Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Aug 1455, Arundel, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years) 
    Family ID F536728303  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Henry PERCY,   b. 25 Jul 1421, Leckonfield, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Mar 1461, Battle Of Towton Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 39 years) 
    Married 25 Jun 1435  Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Henry PERCY,   b. 1449, Leckonfield, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Apr 1489, Cock Lodge, Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 40 years)
     2. Margaret DE PERCY,   b. 1450, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Anne PERCY,   b. 1454, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Jul 1522  (Age 68 years)
     4. Elizabeth PERCY,   b. 1468,   d. 20 May 1512  (Age 44 years)
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F2525  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125447067/eleanor-percy
      Eleanor (also Alianor) Poynings Percy
      BIRTH1422
      Gloucestershire, England
      DEATH11 Feb 1484 (aged 61? 62)
      County Durham, England
      BURIALUnknown

      Spelling of names:
      "Alianor Poynings", "Eleanor Poynings", "Eleanor/ De/ Poynings", "Elizabeth Poynings"

      [The usage of "de" is often misunderstood, as in most cases it was used only in documents written in Latin or French. At the time, in translating into English, "de" was sometimes converted into "of" and sometimes omitted; only rarely was it used in the English form of a name. It is also significant that both "de" and "of" were used simply to show geographical origin in the names of people of all classes, so that in England and Wales neither word should be looked on as in themselves nobiliary.]

      Parents: daughter of Sir Richard de Poynings

      Source: Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists by David Faris, p. 244. (Conflict with mother's name here.)

      "Heir general in 1446 to her grandfather, Robert Poynings, Knt., 4th Lord Poynings....She was legatee in the 1455 will of her mother, Eleanor, Countess of Arundel."

      Source: Plantagenet Ancestry by Douglas Richardson, p. 579 & 594.

      "Sir Henry de Percy, KNT, b. 25 July 1421, slain at Towton Field, 29Mar. 1461, 3rd Earl of Northumberland; m. on or about 25 June 1435, Eleanor Poynings, d. Feb. 1483/4, dau. of Richard Poynings, Lord Poynings."
      Source: Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Th.D. 4th Edition, p. 55.

      Family Members
      Parents

      Richard de Poynings
      1400? 1429

      Eleanor Berkeley Fitzalan
      unknown? 1455

      Spouse

      Henry Percy
      1421? 1461

      Half Siblings

      John Fitzalan
      1407? 1435

      William Fitzalan
      1417? 1487

      Children
      Elizabeth Percy Scrope
      unknown? 1512

      Margaret Percy Gascoigne
      1447? 1487

      Henry de Percy
      1449? 1489
      ----------------
      This is Eleanor De Poynings - not Eleanor Neville
      Eleanor Neville was her Mother in Law.



  • Sources 
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    2. [S448] Pedigree Resource File CD 6, ((Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999)).

    3. [S570] Pedigree Resource File CD 1, ((Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999)).

    4. [S505] Pedigree Resource File CD 12, ((Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2000)).

    5. [S525] h11093, Linda Spencer.

    6. [S638] ftw14-3164.

    7. [S453] 789167.

    8. [S447] Pedigree Resource File CD 7, ((Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999)).

    9. [S414] 269747.

    10. [S454] 1787439.

    11. [S455] 2037576.

    12. [SAuth] Jim Carney, compiled by James H Carney [(E-ADDRESS), & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Buderim, Queensland 4556 AUSTRALIA.

    13. [S26] 11615-2.ftw.

    14. [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 11 Dec 2022), entry for Eleanor POYNINGS, person ID MMXP-1WV. (Reliability: 3).