Robert Poyntz (died 1520)

Sir Robert Poyntz (died 1520),[3] lord of the manor of Iron Acton in Gloucestershire, was a supporter of the future King Henry VII at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

He was the eldest son and heir of John Poyntz (died 1465/72[4]), of Iron Acton, by his wife Alicia Cocks of Bristol,[5] who survived him and remarried to Sir Edward Berkeley of Beverstone Castle[6] 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.

[18] The center boss of the vaulted ceiling comprises a shield displaying the arms of Poyntz impaling Woodville, representing his marriage.

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.

Arms of Poyntz: Barry of eight or and gules
canting crest of Poyntz: A hand clenched , [ 1 ] from the French poigne , "fist". [ 2 ] Sculpted in spandrel above entrance door to the Poyntz Chapel built by Sir Robert Poyntz in the Gaunt's Chapel , Bristol
Arms of Woodville: Argent, a fesse and a canton conjoined gules
Shield forming ceiling boss of the Poyntz Chapel, showing the arms of Poyntz (of 4 quarters, 1:Poyntz; 2:de Acton; 3:Clanvowe; 4:FitzNichol [ 9 ] ) impaling the arms of Woodville (of 6 quarters, 3rd quarter Woodville)
Remnants of chest-tomb of Sir Robert Poyntz (d.1520) in the Gaunt's Chapel, Bristol, showing heraldry of Poyntz and Woodville