SAINT JOHN. 15 BASINO) by writ 29 Dec. (1299) 28 Ed. L directed " Jo de Sancto Johanne, /union," and subsequently (having fue. Ilia father in 1301 or 1302) by writs 12 Nov. (1303) 31 Ed. L to 5 Aug. (1320) 1 1 Ed. II. directed " Johanni de Sancto Johanne " aud by writs from 14 March (1321/2) 16 Ed. II. to 10 Oct. (1325) 19 Ed. II. directed " Johauni de Sancte Johanne de Jlasyny." (») Either he or his father was one of the Barons who signed the letter to the Pope, in 1301, as " dominus de llanak," i.e., Halnaker, in Sussex. He m. Isr.bel, da. of Sir Hugh DK Courtenay, by Isabel, da. of Hugh Le Desfenceu. She d, before him. He d. 14 May 1329. II. 1329. 2. Huon St. Jobs, a and It,, a»ed 19 in 1329, was never sum. to Pari. He m. Mirabel. He d. 1337. His widow d. 13G2. III. 1337, 3. Edmund St. Joiin, only s. and h., aged four in 1337. to He m. Elizabeth. He </. a minor and s.p., being still in ward to the 1317. King (1317), 21 Ed. III., when the right to the Barony fell into abeyance between his two sisters and coheirs.( b ) His widow in. Gerald de Lisle. IV. 13G1. 4. Isabel, tie jure, mo jure Baroness Saint John or St. John de Basing, aged 14 at the death of her br., the 3d Lord, in 1847, to whom by the death of her nephew, John St. J ohn, formerly St. Philibkrt, 13 Nov. 1381, she became sole heir, being then aged 30. She m. firstly, before 1347, Henry dk BurOBERSR, who d. s.p. She m. secondly Lucas de Poynings,( c ) a yr. s. nf Thomas, 1st Loud PoVNINOS (so sum. in 1337), by Agnes, da. and coheir of Sir Hicbard dk Rokksi.kt. He, presumably in her right, was sum. to Pari, as a Baron from 21 Feb. (1387/8), 42 Ed. III., t« 20 Jan. (1374/5), 49 Ed. III., tho,' as these writs were directed to him [aimply) M "Lure tie /'ui/nini/s." it may be Contended that a new Barony (LOKD POVN1XGS) was thereby created. He (/. about 13S5. She ( /. 18 (Jet. 1393. Tnq. post mortem. V, 1393, 5. SIR Thomas Poynixos, de jure, apparently, Lord to Saint John or Saint John de Bask Of 11 ) [1299], possibly also Lord 1428/9. Poyninijs [1337], only s. and b , aged 36 and upwards at his mother's death in 1393, nf whose lands he had livery in 1394. He was never sum. to Pari. He hi. firstly Joan, da. of linger (lk Stkan'oe), Lord Stuanok dk Knokyn. Shed. 1398. He m. secondly after April 139S, Philippa, Dow, Countess of Auijndri., formerly Countess ok Pembroke, 2d da. of Edmund (Mortimer), 3d Earl of March, by Philippa, da. and h. of Lionel (Pi.antagenet), Duke of Clarence, a. of Edward III. She, who was b. at Ludlow, 21 Nov. 1375, d. assumed tho name of St. John, being s. and h. of Adam de Port by Mabel, da. of Reginald de Aurevalle, and Muriel, da. and h, of Roger de St, John, of Halnaker, co. Sussex, a Lordship long held by his descendants. This Adam de Port, who was living 1213, was great grandson of Hugh de Port, who held (inter alia) the Barony of Basing, co. Southampton, at the gen. survey, temp. Will. I, (") A certain " John de St. John was also sum., 3 Dec. 1326, but, as no local addition is affixed to his name, it is difficult to determine whether it was this Baron St. John, or Baron St. John of Layeham, tho' it is most probable it was the former. Dugdale cites an escheat, 3 Ed. III., to prove that this Baron died 14 May 1319, but, as he was regularly sum. until Oct. 1325, it is presumed he d. circa 3 Ed. III., viz., 1329." [Nicola*.] ( b ) These wore (1) Margaret, who M. John St. Philibert, and had an only child and li., styled John 67. John, which John d. a.p. (1361), 25 Ed. III., leaving his aunt, Isabel, his heir (2) Isabel, who in 1361 became sole heir, as in the test. ( c ) See a good pedigree of Poynings, by V. D. Cooper, F.S.A., in the "Sussex Arch, Collections," vol. xv, pp. 14-17. ( d ) Under the title of Lord Saint John he obtained lie. in (1400-1), 2 Hen. IV., to undertake a pilgrimage to Canterbury.
