John Poyntz (ca. 14851544) was an English courtier and politician, Member of Parliament for Devizes in 1529. Poyntz was the second son of Sir Robert Poyntz of

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, Gloucestershire, by Margaret, an illegitimate daughter of Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, making Margaret a first cousin, once removed, to

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. Dame Margaret Poyntz was appointed to wait on

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in October 1501. He was the brother of vice-admiral Anthony Poyntz and the uncle of

Nicholas Poyntz Sir Nicholas Poyntz (1510—circa 28 November 1556) was a prominent English courtier during the latter part of Henry VIII's reign. There is a portrait drawing by Hans Holbein the Younger in the Royal Collection and an oil portrait after the ...

. John Poyntz was sewer to

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in 1520. He was friends with the poet

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who wrote a satire on ‘mine own John Poyntz’. A painting and a drawing of Poyntz by

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survive. His family home was at

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. John Poyntz married, by 1528, Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Matthew Browne of Betchworth Castle, Surrey. He married, secondly, Margaret Saunders. His eldest son, Nicholas Poynts married Winifred Wylde John Poyntz died in 1544, after taking part in the first siege of Boulogne. His widow Margaret married

James Skinner (MP) James Skinner (by 1489 – 30 July 1558), of Reigate, Surrey, was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament, Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Reigate (UK Parliament constituency), Reigate in 1542 and November 1554. His thi ...

. There was another contemporary courtier of this name, John Poyntz (died 1547) of North Ockendon, whose wife Anne Poyntz was " mother of the maids" in the household of

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.David Loades, ''Mary Tudor: A Life'' (Oxford, 1992), p. 355.

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