Robert Poyntz (died 1520)
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Sir Robert Poyntz (died 1520),
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, was a supporter of the future King Henry VII at the
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in 1485. He was buried in the
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, Bristol, in the magnificent "Chapel of Jesus" (known as the "Poyntz Chapel"), a chantry chapel built by him.


Origins

He was the eldest son and heir of John Poyntz (died 1465/72), of Iron Acton, by his wife Alicia Cocks of Bristol, who survived him and remarried to Sir Edward Berkeley of Beverstone Castle in Gloucestershire. Sir Robert's younger brother was Thomas Poyntz (died 1501), an Esquire of the Body of King Henry VII at the baptism of his first-born son Prince Arthur, who married a certain Jane, the second wife and widow of Walter Devereux, 8th Baron Ferrers of Chartley(c.1432-1485), Knight of the Garter.


Early origins

The Poyntz family of Iron Acton were descended from John Poyntz (d.1376), a younger son of Nicholas Poyntz (d.1311), feudal baron of Curry Mallet in Somerset, by his second wife Matilda (or Maud) de Acton, aunt and heiress in her issue of John de Acton (died 1362) of Iron Acton.


Marriage and children

He married Margaret Woodville, the illegitimate daughter and only child of Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers (c. 1440-1483), Knight of the Garter (brother of Queen
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who married King
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), by his mistress Gwenlina Stradling, a daughter of William Stradling of St Donat's Castle in
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, Wales. The Heraldic Visitation of Gloucestershire records that:
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, Cardinall, also by the armes of the Erle impaled w(i)th Poyntz on the top of a Chappell near
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where they lye buried"''. By his wife he had five sons and four daughters including: *Sir
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(c. 1480 – 1533) of Iron Acton, eldest son and heir; *
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(c. 1485 – 1544), of Alderley, Gloucestershire, second son, a
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for Devizes, Wiltshire, in 1529, whose portrait by
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survives in the Royal Collection at
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. *Sir Francis Poyntz (d. 1528), a diplomatist, third son, of Madeley Castle, Staffordshire. In 1526 he was granted custody of the manor of Holborn, "in the suburbs of London", during the minority of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, and in the same year he received some of the forfeited lands of
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, of which Madeley was part. He married Jane or Joan, a daughter of Sir Matthew Browne of Betchworth, Surrey, but left no issue. At the request of his eldest brother Anthony, Sir Francis wrote ''The Table of Cebes the Philosopher, Translated out of Latine into Englishe by Sir Francis Poyngs'', which was published in by Berthelet probably about 1530; a copy is in the British Museum Library. He died of the plague in London on 25 June 1528. *Lady Anne Walsh (nee Poyntz) (c. 1492 - 1528), the wife of Lord John Walsh, who was a close associate of King Henry the VIII and the Sheriff of Gloucester. The Walshes employed future Protestant martyr and bible translator William Tyndale as a tutor for their sons.


Builds Poyntz Chapel

In about 1520, at the end of his life, he built a fine chantry chapel as an addition to the
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(today known as
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), to the east end of the south aisle, beyond the tower, known as the "Chapel of Jesus" or "Poyntz Chapel". It should be distinguished from the Poyntz
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ial chapel in Iron Acton Church, the family's chapel as lords of the manor and patrons of the
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. It is fan-vaulted, and has two niches of unknown use on the North wall. The floor is covered with coloured Spanish tiles, probably from Seville and contemporaneous with the building. The center boss of the vaulted ceiling comprises a shield displaying the arms of Poyntz
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Woodville, representing his marriage. At the entrance to the chapel is sculpted in stone the canting crest of Poyntz, ''A hand clenched'', from the French ''poigne'', "fist".


Death and burial

He died in 1520 and was buried in the
Gaunt's Chapel St Mark's Church is an ancient church on the north-east side of College Green, Bristol, England, built c. 1230. Better known to mediaeval and Tudor historians as the Gaunt's Chapel, it has also been known within Bristol since 1722 as the L ...
in
Bristol Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in ...
(today known as
St Mark's Church, Bristol St Mark's Church is an ancient church on the north-east side of College Green, Bristol, College Green, Bristol, England, built c. 1230. Better known to mediaeval and Tudor historians as the Gaunt's Chapel, it has also been known within Bri ...
), in which he had built the ''Poyntz Chapel'', his chantry chapel. Two remnants of his chest-tomb survive in the Gaunt's Chapel, being wooden panels decorated with Gothic canopy-work, each showing an heraldic shield. One shows the arms of Poyntz of four quarters ( 1:Poyntz; 2:de Acton; 3:Clanvowe; 4:FitzNichol); the other shows the same first four quarters with an additional six quarters of the Woodville family, thus being the shield of the couple's son.A husband impales his wife's paternal arms, a son of an heiress quarters his maternal arms The 5th quarter is Woodville with baton sinister for bastardy.


References

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