Anne Poyntz

Anne Poyntz (died 1554) was an English courtier who owned a significant collection of jewellery. Family background Anne was from Buckinghamshire, a sister and heir of Isaac Sibilles or Sibelies, and daughter of Abraham Sibilles of Boveney who was MP for Windsor in 1491 and clerk of Windsor Castle. Her first husband was John Cheney of Sittingbourne and Ufton in Tunstall, Kent, a relative of the influential Thomas Cheney, Treasurer of the Royal Household (1539–1558), John Cheney provided food at Faversham for the flotilla of barges that brought Charles V to meet Henry VIII in June 1522. Thomas Cheney was retained by Mary I in 1553. Their daughter Frances married John Astley, a member of a family whose estates were at Melton Constable in Norfolk and Hillmorton in Warwickshire. He was a half-brother of the courtier John Astley, whose mother, Anne, was a sister of Elizabeth Boleyn.