Pons Fitz Ponzs

  General Notes:

Keats-Rohan, Domesday People I:180-181, 455- 456, calls Richard Fitz Ponz the nephew, not brother of Drew and Walter, sons of Pons

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: From GEN-MEDIEVAL-L Archives.
Drogo fitz Pons and his brother Walter held at Domesday in Gloucestershire and both were succeeded in the early C12th by their nephew Richard fitz Pons [Keats-Rohan Domesday People I:180-181, 455-456]. This suggests that (1) that Drogo and Walter probably died without legitimate offspring and (2) there were at least three original brothers, Drogo, Walter and Pons (II) - all sons of Pons (I). Pons (II) had two sons, Richard fitz Pons (II) (heir of his uncles and ancestor of the Cliffords). On this picture Simon ancestor of the Poyntz family was probably a son of Pons (II) i.e. a brother of Richard.

Sanders and CP indicate that Richard fitz Pons was the brother (not the nephew) of Drogo and Walter. CP also seems to indicate that there was another brother Osbert (alive in 1130) who had a son Ralph. By inference CP seems to suggest that Simon fitz Pons was yet another brother. [Sanders English Baronies, 35 and note 6; CP X:669 and note (g)]