John Poyntz

[1] Poyntz was the second son of Sir Robert Poyntz of Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, by Margaret, an illegitimate daughter of Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, making Margaret a first cousin, once removed, to King Henry VIII.

Dame Margaret Poyntz was appointed to wait on Catherine of Aragon in October 1501.

He was friends with the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt who wrote a satire on ‘mine own John Poyntz’.

John Poyntz married, by 1528, Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Matthew Browne of Betchworth Castle, Surrey.

His eldest son, Nicholas Poynts married Winifred Wylde[3] John Poyntz died in 1544, after taking part in the first siege of Boulogne.