Research Notes:
"Sir Michael Poynings, sum. 1294; ob. 1316" married Margaret who was "sum. with her husb. to Cor. of Edward II. (1308), survived him (Parl. writs; presented to Hockwood, Suff., 1329." [1]
Complete Peerage states, [2]
Sir Michael de Poynings, (presumably s. and) h. [of Luke], was sum. in 1294 to attend the King on urgent matters. (c) In Oct. 1295 and June 1297 he was preparing for service in Scotland, under Earl de Warenne.(d) In 1296 he was enrolled for defence of the coast, as a non-resident knight of Sussex; in 1297, having lands and rents valued at £20 and more a year in Sussex and Surrey, he had a double sum., both direct and by the sheriff, for service overseas. (e) In Oct. 1299 he was going abroad with Henry de Percy.(f) He and his wife were sum. to the Coronation of Edward II.(g) M.P. for Sussex, 1312/3. He m., some time before 8 June 1298, Margery (—).(h) He is probably to be identified with the Miles [sic] de Ponynges killed at Bannockburn, 24 June 1314.(i) His widow was living in Feb. 1333/4.(j)
(c) As in note "a" above. He was exempted from the general sum. for service in Gascony, June 1294, but sum. for it later, from Portsmouth, 16 July (Parl. Writs).
(d) Cal. Patent Rolls, 1292-1301, p. 156; Rot. Scotiae, vol. i, p. 42. In Mar. 1302/3 he was going again with the Earl, as his bachelor (Bain, Cal. Docs. [S.], vol. ii, no. 1346). Dugdale, Baronage, vol. ii, pp. 133, 134, refers to the Scottish Rolls for sum. to him, implying further service in Scotland, in 1298, 1300, 1306, 13 10, and 1313—the last being for the Bannockburn campaign.
(e) Parl. Writs.
(f) Cal. Patent Rolls, 1 292-1 301, p. 443.
(g) Parl. Writs. He took part in the Coronation tournament at Stepney (Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. iv, p. 69). His arms were there blazoned: barry of six, gold and vert, a bend gules.
(h) Sussex Fines, vol. ii (Sussex Rec. Soc), no. 1121.
(i) Chron. of the Reigns of Edw. I and Edw. II (Rolls Ser.), vol. i, p. 231. In Mar. 1315/6 his widow was holding dower in the Poynings' lands in Sussex and Suffolk (Parl. Writs). He had a younger son Michael (Michel de Ponynges le Uncle), who was going to France in his nephew's company, June 1340 (Treaty Roll, 14 Edw. Ill, m. 19), and was killed on Good Friday 1347, when his sister Margery was forcibly carried off from the manor of Beams, near Reading, by Sir John de Dalton (Cal. Patent Rolls, 1345-48, p. 310; 1350-54, p. 10). The matrimonial history of this lady is very fully recorded in the rolls of the King's Chancery.
(j) Idem, 1330-34, p. 517
[1] Thomas Agar Holland, "Poynings," Sussex Archaeological Collections 15 (1863), 1-56 at 14, [GoogleBooks].
[2] George E. Cokayne, H. A. Doubleday, Howard de Walden, eds., The Complete Peerage, rev., Vol. 10, Oakham to Richmond (London: St. Catherine Press, 1945), 659.