Sir Nicholas Poyntz, Sheriff of Gloucestershire

POYNTZ, Sir Nicholas (c.1528-85), of Iron Acton, Glos.
Family and Education
b. c.1528, 1st s. of Sir Nicholas Poyntz† by Joan, da. of Thomas, 5th Lord Berkeley. m. (1) 1555, Anne, da. of Sir Ralph Verney of Penley, Herts., 1s. Sir John 2da.; (2) Margaret (d.1586), da. of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, wid. of John Jermyn of Rushbrooke, Suff., 3s. suc. fa. 1556. KB Jan. 1559.
Offices Held
Esquire of the body by 1560; j.p. Glos. 1559-c.80, sheriff 1560-70; commr. survey river Leddon 1565, piracy 1577, musters; commr. eccles. causes, diocese of Bristol and Gloucester 1574.
Biography
Poyntz’s grandmother was a daughter and coheiress of Sir William Huddsfield of Dittisham, some few miles from Totnes, where Poyntz was returned in 1559. He was related to the Devon Carews, and, through his sister’s marriage, to Sir Thomas Heneage, and at the time of his return Poyntz was at the height of his own brief court career. At Elizabeth’s coronation he was made KB and soon afterwards an esquire of the body. Why, or even if, he resigned this office has not been ascertained, but some time during 1560 he retired to his Gloucestershire estates and thenceforward is referred to as a local official. He was elected to Parliament for Gloucestershire in 1571, and was appointed to the committee of a bill about Bristol, 12 Apr. His servant was granted privilege 3 May.1
Poyntz was a considerable landowner in the county, having in 1557 been granted livery of estates including the manors of Iron Acton, Acton Ilger, Tockington and Hill. In June 1560 he obtained a crown lease of ‘the disparked park’ of Pucklechurch at a rent of £40. Some of his land was held of the dean and chapter of Bristol, who early in Elizabeth’s reign brought a Chancery case against him, a man ‘greatly friended and allied’, for non-payment of £68 rent. In 1565 he sold some property in Ozleworth, where his father had built a manor house with materials from the dissolved monastery of Kingswood. The Berkeleys, who owned land at Ozleworth and Tockington, sold him part of their estates there, and for a time in 1584 he was living at Tockington Lodge. Before his death at Iron Acton on 1 Sept. 1585 he enfeoffed Thomas Throckmorton, Matthew Poyntz and others of most of his property, to the use of himself and his heirs.2
Poyntz’s surviving correspondence shows a highly strung and emotional man, one perhaps who after 1564 never recovered from his mother’s death following atrocious treatment at the hands of her second husband Sir Thomas Dyer. In 1575 Poyntz was ‘much troubled to think I must speak to any woman one loving word’, the Queen had forgotten him, and he would as soon go into hell as to the court. About 1583 he uttered ‘unreverend speeches against the Queen, the Council and all the ladies and gentlemen of the court’. By this time, too, his religion was suspect, which may explain why he put his lands in trust. His name disappears from the commission of the peace after 1579, and a report by Ralph Betham, ‘minister of the word and curate of Shepperton in Middlesex’, dated 10 Feb. 1584 states that Poyntz was ‘very well acquainted and known’ to the Catholic priest John Colleton ‘sometime of Lincoln College in Oxford, who afterwards going beyond the seas, was made priest there’, returned to England and ‘resorted ... to one Sir Nicholas Poyntz’s dwelling at Acton within three miles of Sodberry in Gloucestershire’. Poyntz was on a list of Catholics dated 1582, and his sister Frances was the mother of the abbess Joanna Berkeley. All this is not to say that the government distrusted him in local affairs: shortly before he died he was asked to supervise the despatch of 300 soldiers from Cirencester to London. He made his will in June 1585, and it was proved in the following September. The preamble refers to ‘the forged complaint of a varlet, my enemy’, possibly one of the Throckmortons, with whom he had a serious quarrel. The widow was sole executrix. Litigation among the family over its provisions went on well into the seventeenth century.3
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From: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/p...
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Sir Nicholas Poyntz (c. 1528 – 1585) was an English politician.
Life
Poyntz was born the eldest son of Sir Nicholas Poyntz, courtier and Knight of the Shire for Gloucestershire, and his wife Joan Berkeley, daughter of Thomas Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley. He succeeded his father in 1566 and was knighted (KB) in 1559. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Totnes in 1559 and for Gloucestershire in 1571.[1] He was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire for 1569–70. His mother made a disastrous second marriage to Sir Thomas Dyer, whose cruelty is reputed to have caused her death in 1564. Nicholas, a very sensitive man, is said never to have recovered from his mother's unhappiness and subsequent death.
He married twice, first with Anne, the daughter of Sir Ralph Verney of Penley, Hertfordshire with whom he had a son, John Pointz and two daughters and then with Margaret, the daughter of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby with whom he had a further three sons.
Death
Poyntz died in 1585. He was strongly suspected of being a Roman Catholic. His will caused a lawsuit which dragged on for a generation.
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From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Poyntz_(MP_died_1585)
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Sir Nicholas Poyntz, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, Burgess of Totnes1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Last Edited 5 Mar 2014
M, #90384, b. circa 1530, d. 1 September 1585
Father Sir Nicholas Poyntz, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, Admiral of the Western Seas, Burgess of Cricklade1,10,11 b. c 1507, d. 27 Nov 1556
Mother Joan Berkeley1,10,11 b. c 1507, d. 31 Mar 1563
Sir Nicholas Poyntz, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, Burgess of Totnes was born circa 1530 at of Iron Acton, Acton Ilger, Hill, & Tockington, Gloucestershire, England.1,7 He married Anne Verney, daughter of Sir Ralph Verney, Sheriff of Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire and Elizabeth Bray, in 1555; They had 1 son (Sir John) and 2 daughters (Mary, wife of John Sydenham, Esq; & Ursula).1,3,4,5,7,8,9 Sir Nicholas Poyntz, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, Burgess of Totnes married Margaret Stanley, daughter of Sir Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl Derby and Margaret Barlow, after 1560; They had 3 sons (Edward; Hugh; & Robert).1,3,7 Sir Nicholas Poyntz, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, Burgess of Totnes left a will in June 1585.7 He died on 1 September 1585 at Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England.1,3,7 His estate was probated on 23 September 1585.3,7
Family 1
Anne Verney b. c 1533
Child

• Mary Poyntz+12,2,3,4,6,7,8 b. c 1557

Family 2
Margaret Stanley b. c 1542
Citations
1.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 596.
2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 288.
3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 398.
4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 159.
5.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 278.
6.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 293.
7.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 427.
8.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 107-108.
9.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 279.
10.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 397.
11.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 426.
12.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 699.
From: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p3009.htm...
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Sir Nicholas Poyntz1
M, #250351, b. circa 1535, d. 1 September 1585
Last Edited=13 Nov 2007
Consanguinity Index=0.02%
Sir Nicholas Poyntz was born circa 1535.2 He was the son of Sir Nicholas Poyntz and Joan Berkeley.2 He married, secondly, Lady Margaret Stanley, daughter of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby.2 He married, firstly, Anne Verney, daughter of Sir Ralph Verney and Elizabeth Bray, circa 12 May 1555.1 He died on 1 September 1585.2
He held the office of Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1569.1 He was Knight of the Shire in 1571.1 He lived at Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, EnglandG.1
Children of Sir Nicholas Poyntz and Anne Verney
1. Ursula Poyntz2
2. Mary Poyntz+2 d. c Oct 1591
3. Sir John Poyntz+2 b. c 1560, d. c Nov 1633
Children of Sir Nicholas Poyntz and Lady Margaret Stanley
1. Edward Poyntz+2 b. c 1575, d. 5 Oct 1613
2. Hugh Poyntz2 b. c 1579, d. 1 Mar 1604/5
3. Robert Poyntz2 b. c 1581
Citations
1.[S35] BLG1965 volume 1, page 579. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S35]
2.[S35] BLG1965. [S35]
From: https://www.thepeerage.com/p25036.htm#i250351
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Nicholas POYNTZ (Sir Knight)
Born: ABT 1537, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England
Died: 1 Sep 1585, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England
Notes: will of 22 Jun 1585 was proved 15 Feb 1587. Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth I, Jan 1559; Burgess to the House of Commons from the Borough of Totnes, Devonshire, 1559; Sheriff of Gloucestershire, 1569-1570, and Knight of the Shire for Gloucester, 1571. Rebuilt the manor of Iron Acton and received Elizabeth I.
Father: Nicholas POYNTZ (Sir Knight)
Mother: Joan BERKELEY
Married 1: Anne VERNEY 12 May 1555, Pendley, Hertfordshire, England
Children:
1. Ursula POYNTZ (b. ABT 1556)
2. Mary POYNTZ
3. John POYNTZ (Sir)
Married 2: Margaret STANLEY
Children:
4. Edward POYNTZ (d. AFT 1618)
5. Anne POYNTZ
6. Hugh POYNTZ
7. Robert POYNTZ
From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/POYNTZ.htm#Nicholas%20POYNTZ%20(Sir%20...
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