Lady Eleanor POYNINGS

  General Notes:

At the arrangement of his father and Cardinal Beaufort in 1434,[5] he married on or before 25 June 1435, Eleanor Poynings (c.1422 – 11 February 1484), de jure suo jure Lady Poynings, daughter and heiress of Sir Richard Poynings of Poynings in Sussex, by his second wife, Eleanor Berkeley, daughter of Sir John Berkeley of Beverston Castle in Gloucestershire. She was heir general in 1446 to her grandfather, Robert Poynings, 4th Baron Poynings,[35] to the Lordship of Poynings, with lands across the south of England.[5] He was summoned to Parliament from 14 December 1446 to 26 May 1455, by writs directed Henrico de Percy, chivaler, domino de Ponynges. His wife was a legatee in the 1455 will of her mother, Eleanor, Countess of Arundel (widow of the thirteenth Earl of Arundel). They had one son and three daughters:[35]

Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland (c.1449 – 28 April 1489), who married Maud Herbert, daughter of the first Earl of Pembroke.[36]
Margaret Percy (b. c. 1447), who married Sir William Gascoigne[37]
Elizabeth Percy (1460– 1512), who married Henry Scrope, 6th Baron Scrope of Bolton.[35]
Anne Percy (1444– 1522), who married Sir Thomas Hungerford in 1460.[38]

Eleanor married Henry PERCY 3d Earl of Northumberland, son of Henry PERCY 2nd Earl of Northumberland and Eleanor NEVILLE, on 25 Jun 1435. (Henry PERCY 3d Earl of Northumberland was born on 25 Jul 1421 and died on 29 Mar 1461 in Battle of Towton.)