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Sir Edward Poynings KG (1459 – 22 October 1521) was an English soldier, administrator and diplomat, and Lord Deputy of Ireland under King Henry VII of England.
2 de abr. de 2024 · Sir Edward Poynings was the lord deputy of Ireland from September 1494 to December 1495, mainly remembered for the laws—“Poynings’ Laws”—that subjected the Irish Parliament to the control of the English king and council.
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14 de mar. de 2021 · Sir Edward Poynings KG (1459 – 22 October 1521) was an English soldier, administrator and diplomat, and Lord Deputy of Ireland under King Henry VII of England.
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Poynings, Sir Edward (1459–1521), lord deputy, was born in 1459, probably in Southwark, the son of Robert Poynings and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Paston. From a young age he experienced the harsh side of English politics.
Poynings succeeded in routing the Yorkist faction in Ireland and subordinating Anglo-Irish and Irish alike to the authority of England in the famous ‘Poynings’s law’, passed by the Parliament which he had summoned to meet at Drogheda on 1 Dec. 1494.
Poynings, Sir Edward, an English statesman, sent to Ireland in 1494 by King Henry VII. as Deputy for his son Henry (afterwards King Henry VIII.), then in his fourth year.
Sir Edward Poynings, 1459–1521, English statesman. After taking part in an insurrection (1483) against Richard III, he fled to the Continent, where he joined the followers of Henry Tudor, earl of Richmond, who in 1485 ascended the English throne as Henry VII.
