Nicholas Potyn(died 1398) was an English politician.
Life
editPotyn was the son of MPJohn PotynofRochester, Kent.He married a woman named Alice. The heir to his manors in Kent was his only daughter, Juliana (d.1417), whose second husband was Thomas St. Leger, a younger son of Sir Ralph St. Leger.[1]
He was buried at the chapel of Holy Trinity at St. Dunstan-in -the-East. St Dunstan-in-the-East was a Church of England parish church on St Dunstan's Hill, halfway between London Bridge and the Tower of London in the City of London. The church was largely destroyed in the Second World War and the ruins are now a public garden.
Career
editHe was controller of customs for London from 1375 to 1377 and JP for Kent from 1394 until his death.
Potyn was MP forKentin 1391, 1393 and January 1397, and was appointedSheriff of Kentfor 1398, dying in office.[2]
Death
editHis heir was his daughter, Juliana.[3]
References
edit- ^"POTYN, Nicholas (D.1398), of Otterden, Eversley in Charing and Langdon, Kent and London. | History of Parliament Online".
- ^"POTYN, Nicholas (d.1398), of Otterden, Eversley in Charing and Langdon, Kent and London".History of Parliament Online.Retrieved14 April2012.
- ^"POTYN, Nicholas (D.1398), of Otterden, Eversley in Charing and Langdon, Kent and London. | History of Parliament Online".
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