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2 unusual facts about Robert Poynings


Robert Poynings

Poynings was slain on 17 February 1461 while fighting on the Yorkist side at the Second Battle of St Albans.

By his father's second marriage to Margaret Squery (d. 3 November 1448), widow of Sir William Cromer (d. January 1434), Lord Mayor of London, elder daughter of Thomas Squery of Westerham, Kent, Robert Poynings had a half sister, Eleanor Poynings, who married Thomas Palmer.



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