Research Notes:
"Thomas de Poynings held seven knights' fees in Poynings, 1242.(Testa de Neville)." [1]
Complete Peerage states, [2]
Sir Thomas de Poynings, s. and h. [of Michael de Poynings],(g) held 10 fees of Earl de Warenne at Poynings in 1242-43;(h) and in June 1246 was the knight app. in Sussex to aid the escheator.(i) He m., before 1240, Ela, da. of Robert Aiguillon, by Margery his wife.(j) She d. some time before Mich. 1251.(k) He was living 31 Aug. 1266, but d. some time before 24 Sep. 1272.(l)
(g) See ante, p. 657, note "h." [(h) Michael is stated to have been father of Thomas (Assize Roll 909 a, m. 16), and Adam grandfather of Thomas (Idem, 819, m. 12)]
(h) Book of Fees, p. 690.
(i) Cal. Patent Rolls, 1232-47, p. 482.
(j) Assize Roll 819, m. 3; Coram Rege Rolls, Mich. 35-36 Hen. Ill, m. 54;
Trin. 37 Hen. Ill, m. 4.
(k) When Luke, her s. and h., was ward of Thomas de Poninges (Idem, Mich. 35-36 Hen. lII, m. 54).
(l) Records of the Barony … of Lewes (Sussex Rec. Soc), p. 48. In Sep. 1272 his heir had a grant of free warren in his demesne lands in Wrentham, &c, Suffolk (Cal. Charter Rolls, vol. ii, p. 184).
[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), 658.