Anne Poyntz - Knowledge (XXG)

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Anne Poyntz bequeathed her eldest granddaughter Bridget Astley a brooch depicting a woman "enamylled" with a caged bird with a French proverb, "Miex suys bocage que toy dan la cage" (Better to be bird in the wood than caged), and to another granddaughter Rebecca Astley, a brooch with "a woman sitting

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Monarchs exchanged gifts with their courtiers on New Year's Day. A silver gilt "cruse" (a drinking pot) in Anne Poyntz's will had been Mary's New Year's Day gift for 1554. The bequests of other jewels do not specify if they had been royal gifts. Anne Astley was bequeathed an "edge for a billiment" of

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in 1553. The role was to supervise young aristocratic women who were placed in the royal household. Her own granddaughter, Anne Astley, was also at court, possibly as her servant. Mary gave her ladies and gentlewomen pairs of "billiments", gold bands to wear on their head dresses or French hoods at

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at Mary's court. An indication of how they were worn occurs in a warrant for fabric for another of Mary's gentlewomen, Mary or Jane Russell. In June 1554, Russell was given "twoo yards of French velvet to make her Frenche hoods and bylementts, halffe a yarde of satten to lyne the said hoodes", one

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court. Gifts to Mary from the queen include her coronation "upper billiment", and a nether billiment set with 155 pearls which had been a gift from Mary on another occasion. A similar "upper billiment" with a crimson velvet gown to wear at the coronation was included in the will of the husband of

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These pieces are connected with service, display, and gift exchange at the Tudor court. Jewels circulated in a gift-giving culture, and document an elite female network. A roll of gifts at Mary's court survives from 1557 listing gifts and givers. A 19th-century historian of the family mistakenly

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Anne Poyntz made two wills, one in 1550 and in May 1554, shortly before her death, which were both proved or probated. The wills were published in an abbreviated form in 1865. They include a number of bequests to the Astley family of jewellery. These illustrate the exchanges of gifts at the

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upon a wheel, and clawing a lion at the back", Fortune and Hercules. A grandson, Cheney Astley, was bequeathed a jewel depicting the Virgin Mary, "a Lady assumpted all of golde with her sonne in armes, and sitting on the half moon with a ruby stone in yt" with a ruby ring, and other items.

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yard of satin, white and red "to make her nether bylymentts". The nether biliment or habilment of "goldsmith work" was worn at the front edge, and the upper biliment behind, near, or over the crown of the head. Mary had a French hood as early as 1520.

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45 round garnets alternating with 48 gold pieces with blue enamelling, Anne Poyntz's gold chain, and a figurative tablet or locket featuring the temptation of Adam and Eve "by the spirit figured over their heads", with the mottoes:

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By 1605, Thomas Poyntz's son Gabriel Poyntz placed a series of memorials to the family in the church in the former Lady Chapel at North Ockendon, including a depiction of Anne and John Poyntz. The monuments are attributed to the

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in 1532 was a tablet of gold with a device of Adam and Eve and a hanging pearl. Anne Astley was also to have a ruby ring that had been a gift from

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After the death of Mistress Poyntz, in 1557, there were six maids of honour; Anne Somerset, Jane Seymour, Cecily Arundel, Mary Mansel (who married

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Anne Poyntz died in May 1554, after a period of illness at court when she was nursed by Anne Astley. She was buried either at

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The other side of this piece depicted a man holding flowers and a woman holding a heart, encircled by the inscription:

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Anne Poyntz owned a gold brooch depicting Adam and Eve, which may have resembled a renaissance hat badge held at the

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Anne was from Buckinghamshire, a sister and heir of Isaac Sibilles or Sibelies, and daughter of Abraham Sibilles of

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Emilie M. Brinkman, "Dressed to kill: The fashioning of Bloody Mary", Valerie Schutte & Jessica S. Hower,

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grandfather of Thomas Cheney's second wife. Sir Robert Broughton's second wife was Dorothy, the sister of

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John Poyntz had a sister, who married Thomas Sponer, a London goldsmith. John Poyntz's younger brother,

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assumed that the jewels in the will were family heirlooms gifted to her by a profligate husband.

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is now thought to depict John Poyntz of Alderley. John Pointz of North Ockendon was involved the

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Brian Cummings, 'Twelfth Night and the Rites of Memory', Jonathan Baldo & Isabel Karremann,

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has a Tudor hat badge depicting Adam and Eve, though its inscription is now mostly effaced, and

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Technical description of a locket with the initials of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon

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A "Master" and "Mistress Poyntz" are named in the household accounts of Lady Mary, later

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Their daughter Frances married John Astley, a member of a family whose estates were at

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Jane Lawson, 'Ritual of the New Year's Gift', Valerie Schutte & Jessica S. Hower,

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Astley of Melton Constable and Seaton Delaval: Landed families of Britain and Ireland

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J. Lawson, 'Ritual of the New Year's Gift', Valerie Schutte & Jessica S. Hower,

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to meet Henry VIII in June 1522. Thomas Cheney was retained by Mary I in 1553.

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Illustrations of the Manners and Expences of Antient Times in England

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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the reign of Mary I

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on 30 September 1553, but other sources name "Mistress Poynes".

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Essex views: North Ockendon: St Mary Magdalene, Poyntz Reliefs

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