Research Notes:
"Michael de Poynings gave Goshawk to King John, 1202 (Testa de Neville), living 1215. He married "Margaret, widow of Sir John de Kailli (Blomefield's Norf.)." [1]
Complete Peerage states, [2]
Michael, s. and h. [of Adam the younger],(h) in 1202 fined a Norwegian hawk for having a weekly market in Crawley, Sussex.(i) He was abroad in the King's service in the summer and autumn of 1206, and in Ireland in 1210.(a) In Feb. 1215/6 he was in arms against the King, but was granted safe conduct throughout the realm in Aug. 1217.(b) He m., before Trin. term 1206,(c) Margaret, widow of John de Cailly, of Norfolk.(d) He appears to have been living at Mich. I230,(e) but was dead in 27 Hen. Ill (1242-43).(f)
(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).
(i) Pipe Roll, 4 John, p. 142.
(a) Curia Regis Rolls, vol. iv, pp. 157, 273; Rot. de Liberate, pp. 182, 200, 226. In 1212 he was sent to take deer in Sussex to the King's use (Rot. Lit. Claus., vol. i, p. 123).
(b) Idem, vol. i, p. 250; Patent Rolls, 1216-25, p. 87.
(c) When the question of her dower in Denver, &c, Norfolk, came into court (Curia Regis Rolls, vol. iv, p. 157).
(d) Idem, p. 85; Rot. de Oblatis, p. 348; Rye, Pedes Finium, Norf., Ric. I and John, p. 116.
(e) Pipe Roll, 14 Hen. Ill, p. 229.
(f) When his son was in possession of Poynings (Book of Fees, p. 690); he was probably dead in 1240, when Thomas was defending his rights of warren in Sussex (Assize Roll 819, m. 5 d).
[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), 657-658.