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  SIR EDWARD POYNINGS - LoveToKnow Article on SIR EDWARD POYNINGS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Robert Poynings was implicated in Jack Cades rebellion, and Edward was himself concerned in a Kentish rising against Richard III., which compelled him to escape to the Continent.
Poynings was employed in the wars on the Continent, and in 1493 he was made governor of Calais.
Poynings immediately set about Anglicizing the government of Ireland, which he thoroughly accomplished, after inflicting punishment oq the powerful Irish clans who supported the imposture of Perkin Warbeck.
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 Edward Poyning - TheBestLinks.com - Edward Poynings, England, Henry VII of England, Henry VIII of England, ...
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Edward Poyning (1459 - 1521) was Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England.
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 ninemsn Encarta - Ireland
Poynings represented the purely English interest, as distinct from the Anglo-Norman interest, which up to that time had prevailed in Ireland.
Most important of all was the so-called Poynings Law, which made the Irish Parliament dependent on the English king by providing that all proposed legislation should first be announced to the king and meet with his approval, after which he would issue the licence to hold Parliament.
Charles I sent Edward Somerset, Earl of Glamorgan, to treat with them, and the earl went so far as to promise them the predominancy of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland as the reward for their assistance to Charles.
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 Ireland: History: FIRST CENTURIES OF ENGLISH RULE (C. 1166-C. 1600)
English control was reasserted and strengthened by the creation of three new Anglo-Irish earldoms: that of Kildare, given to the head of the Leinster Fitzgeralds; that of Desmond, given to the head of the Munster Fitzgeralds; and that of Ormonde, given to the head of the Butlers, who held lands around Tipperary.
Edward III's son, Lionel, duke of Clarence, as viceroy from 1361 to 1367, passed in the Irish Parliament the Statute of Kilkenny (1366), which listed the "obedient" (English-controlled) lands as Louth, Meath, Trim, Dublin, Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Wexford, Waterford, and Tipperary.
At Drogheda (1494-95) he induced a Parliament to pass an act that came to be known as "Poynings' Law"; it subjected the meetings and legislative drafts of the Irish Parliament to the control of the English king and council.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Poynings Sir Edward
Poynings, Sir Edward (1459-1521), English soldier and statesman, best known for introducing legislation curtailing the independence of the Irish...
A second imposture began in 1492 when Perkin Warbeck claimed to be Richard, Duke of York, younger son of Edward IV.
Henry was born at the royal palace of Greenwich on June 28, 1491.
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 Henry VII, king of England. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Henry was the son of Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond, who died before Henry was born, and Margaret Beaufort, a descendant of Edward III through John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster.
The death of Edward IV (1483) and accession of Richard III left Henry the natural leader of the party opposing Richard, whose rule was very unpopular.
Poynings drove out of Ireland the Yorkist pretender Perkin Warbeck, who then sought support from the Scottish king, James IV.
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 MSN Encarta - Henry VII (of England)
Henry, the son of Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond (1430?-1456), and Margaret Beaufort, countess of Richmond and Derby (a direct descendant of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster), was born on January 28, 1457, in Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire.
After the Yorkist king Edward IV seized the throne from the Lancastrian Henry VI in 1471, Henry Tudor, a Lancastrian, took refuge in Brittany.
In 1483, taking advantage of the indignation aroused against Edward’s successor, Richard III, whose nephews, Edward V and Richard, duke of York, were murdered in the Tower of London, presumably on Richard’s order, Henry crossed over to Wales, where he gathered an army of supporters.
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 Richard Wingfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She was daughter to Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg, sister to Elizabeth Woodville, sister-in-law to Edward IV of England and widow to both Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford.
With Sir Edward Poynings and others he was sent in 1512 to arrange a Holy League between Pope Julius II, the English king and other European sovereigns.
Her maternal grandparents were Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville.
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 Adoniram Judson Ramsdell Family Tree: Twelfth Generation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Edward was born 1513 in Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England.
Edward died 16 January 1585 in Alabama, at approximately 71 years of age.
His body was interred in Orange, CT. Edward was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 3 November 1960.
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 Poynings, Sir Edward on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Poynings served Henry on the Continent and was sent (1494) to Ireland as lord deputy.
Poyning's Law is the name given to the Drogheda statutes (1494) that provided that the English privy council must give previous assent to the summoning of an Irish Parliament and to the introduction of any specific legislation in the Irish Parliament, and that all laws passed in England should apply to Ireland.
`Escheat with Heir': Guardianship, Upward Mobility, and Political Reconciliation in the Reign of Edward III.(feudalism in 12th century England)
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He appointed English born officials in various posts in the council and sent Sir Edward Poynings to Ireland as lord deputy, to reduce the country to 'whole and perfect obedience' and to prevent Yorkist pretenders from using it as a base.
This stated that no law could be passed before the parliament of Ireland without first having been approved by the King and his council in England and by the deputy and council in Ireland.
It was not until 1782 that Poyning's Law was partly rescinded by Grattan's Parliament.
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 The Bailey Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Robert POYNINGS [SIR BARONET] was born on 3 Dec 1382 in Okeford, Fitzpaine, Dorset, England.
She was married to Henry III King Of ENGLAND on 14 Jan 1236 in Canterbury, Kent, England.
Children were: Edward I "Longshanks" King Of ENGLAND, Margaret Queen Of SCOTLAND [PRINCESS OF ENGLAND], Beatrice Princess Of ENGLAND, Edmund "Crouchback" Prince Of ENGLAND [EARL OF LANCASTER], Richard Prince Of ENGLAND [EARL OF CORNWALL], John Prince Of ENGLAND, Catherine Princess Of ENGLAND, William Prince Of ENGLAND, Henry Prince Of ENGLAND.
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 Bosworth, Stoke, Blackheath and Exete (1483-1487)
Edward IV died in April 1483 when his son and heir, Edward V, was only twelve.
Inevitably rival factions immediately emerged — the boy king and the court controlled by the queen mother and her relations, and Edward's favorites Lord Hastings and Thomas Lord Stanley, opposed by Richard, Duke of Gloucester, now the most powerful man in the kingdom, whom Edward IV had intended should be regent.
This revolt was in the name of Edward, Earl of Warwick, son of Clarence, but as he was a prisoner in the Tower a 'double' named Lambert Simnel played his part.
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 ninemsn Encarta - Henry VIII
In September 1494, he was made Lieutenant of Ireland, though he was not expected to travel there and the work was undertaken by Sir Edward Poynings, who was appointed Deputy-Lieutenant.
She had endowed Henry with many of the features of her father, Edward IV, who also had a charismatic personality and loved luxury.
Court chivalry had been revived under the Yorkists, and the most popular entertainments of the courts of Edward IV and Henry VII were the tournaments held in the summer.
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 King Henry VII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Henry, the son of Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond (1430?-56), and Margaret Beaufort, countess of Richmond and Derby (a direct descendant of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster), was born on January 28, 1457, in Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire.
After the Yorkist king Edward IV seized the throne from the Lancastrian Henry VI in 1471, Henry Tudor, a Lancastrian, took refuge in Bretagne.
In 1483, taking advantage of the indignation aroused against Edward's successor, Richard III, whose nephews, Edward V and Richard, duke of York (1472-83), were murdered in the Tower of London, presumably on Richard's order, Henry crossed over to Wales, where he gathered an army of supporters.
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 Henry VII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Edward was succeeded by Richard III who lost any vestiges of popular support by the murder, supposedly on his orders, of his two nephews Edward V and Richard, Duke of York in the Tower of London.
Another uprising was led by the Walloon impostor Perkin Warbeck, who claimed to be Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the murdered sons of Edward IV.
In 1494 Henry sent the English statesman Sir Edward Poynings (1459-1521) to Ireland to re-establish English control in that country.
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 Paradox Interactive Forums - The Earls of Kildare AAR
The death of Edward IV in 1483, the succession of his son, Edward V and the immediate asscenion of Richard, Duke of Gloucester to the throne following the internment of the young Edward to the Tower of London was the start of a brief 2 year rule.
For his failure in Dublin, Edward Poynings was sent to the Calais garrison where he was heard to exclaim that "the food and company in Calais were as bad as that which was to be found in Dublin.".
By August 1495, Edward Poynings had returned to London following a bout of food posioning and was dismissed to a trainee garrison in Bristol where he was to fade out of Irish history.
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 Henry VII
Henry, the son of Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond (1430?­56), and Margaret Beaufort, countess of Richmond and Derby (a direct descendant of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster), was born on January 28, 1457, in Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire.
In 1483, taking advantage of the indignation aroused against Edward's successor, Richard III, whose nephews, Edward V and Richard, duke of York (1472­83), were murdered in the Tower of London, presumably on Richard's order, Henry crossed over to Wales, where he gathered an army of supporters.
In 1494 Henry sent the English statesman Sir Edward Poynings (1459­1521) to Ireland to reestablish English control in that country.
www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu /antillians/henryvii.html   (397 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | dummy | Day 248   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Her two crowned sons, Edward IV and Richard III, were dead.
Poynings was an energetic man. He persuaded his Irish parliament to find the great Earl of Kildare, a noted Yorkist, guilty of treason, and had him packed off to answer his king in England.
The parliament also gave its consent to Poynings' Law, under which all Irish bills had to be vetted by the royal council before they could be enacted.
www.guardian.co.uk /Millennium/0,2833,293734,00.html   (649 words)

  
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When Edward IV died April 9, 1483, his younger brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester, was made Protector of the Realm for Edward’s son and successor, 12 year old King Edward V. It was not long before adversaries appeared from the faction headed by the new king’s mother, Elizabeth Woodville, who dominated her son.
In 1487, a certain Lambert Simnel was received in Ireland as the nephew of Edward IV and was crowned as Edward VI of England at a large gathering of Irish nobles and prelates on May 24.
Poynings Law became the authority for English persecution of the Irish for the next three hundred years, but Kildare submitted to the Lord Deputy with good grace and, after trial in London, was restored to power in 1496 and retained his office as Lord Lieutenant until his death in 1513.
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Edward's own brother Clarence was won over by Warwick to assist in driving him out; and, though afterwards he changed sides again and helped in his brother's restoration, mutual distrust still remained, and Clarence was ultimately put to death as a traitor.
Poynings was a good soldier but found desultory warfare with Irish chieftains unsatisfactory, and tried to secure their loyalty by money payments.
Another expedition of fifteen hundred archers sent under the command of Sir Edward Poynings to the assistance of Margaret of Savoy and the Burgundians against Gelders was at first more satisfactory; for with their aid some places were captured and destroyed (August).
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 Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology | The Scenery of Sherwood Forest: Clumber (2)
In 1498-9 the seventh Lord Clinton accompanied Sir Edward Poynings, with 1,500 archers, to the assistance of Margaret, Duchess of Savoy, against the Duke of Gueldres.
His death took place on August 7, 1517; he left an only son, Edward, by Mary, his wife, daughter of Sir Edward Poynings, K.G. Edward, the ninth Lord Clinton and first Earl of Lincoln, was born in 1512.
On the birth of a third son to the King of France, and King Edward's acceptance of the office of godfather to the infant, for its fulfilment in November, 1551, the Lord High Admiral was dispatched as the King's proxy.
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 BBC - History - Henry VIII, King of Ireland 1541   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
In 1494, Henry VII had sent Edward Poynings to Ireland as deputy in order to strengthen links with England.
Within a matter of weeks the Irish Parliament, meeting at Drogheda, had passed Poyning's Law which stated that Irish legislation was only valid when confirmed by the English Privy Council.
Edward VI and the Act of Uniformity 1547 - 1553
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 Dean Cobbe, Lambetr Simnel, Henry VII, Poynings.
- Viceroy Sir Edward Poynings - Mode of proceeding in Parliament - A Bridle on the Irish Parliament - Royal Favours on Sir Edward Poynings.
By this all statutes made within the realm of England concerning the common weal, from henceforth be deemed good and effectual in the law, and such be accepted, used, and executed within the land of Ireland in all points, according to the tenor of the same.
The effect of this, according to the opinion of the late Lord Chief Justice Whiteside, was to place a bridle in the mouth of the Irish Parliament, and subjugate alike the lord-deputy, the nobles, and the commoners to the will of the king's council at London.
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 HST 260
Edward III sen his son Lionel, duke of Clarence, to Ireland to solidify English control there b.
Edward VI and Mary wanted to create a buffer zone around the Pale b.
Edward II - crushed at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 2.
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 Order of the Garter
George's Chapel in Windsor Castle has been the home of the Most Holy Order of the Garter since King Edward III of England founded the Order in 1348 as "a society, fellowship and college of knights." It is now the oldest and highest order of chivalry in the British honours system.
In conscious imitation of King Arthur's Round Table, the Order always has 26 official Knights of the Garter, including the sovereign, and each is assigned a seat in the choir of the Chapel; each knight's coat of arms is displayed on a flag hanging over that seat.
Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, afterwards Duke of Somerset, uncle of the Prince of Wales (1541)
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The Battle of Annas and the defeat of Edward Balliol.
Edward Balliol successfully re-invades Scotland with a new army and the support of Edward III of England.
The rout of Solway Moss and death of James V of Scotland leading to the acession of Mary I, Queen of Scots.
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