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Mary Poyntz, in religion Mary.
Born: 1604.
Died: 1667 in Augsburg.

father: Edward Poyntz of Tockington, Gloucs
mother: Mary Wigmore of Lucton, Herefs

Mary Ward Institute choir nun.
She entered c 1619.
Flanders

Superior 1627 - 1633 Munich
Superior 1654 - 1667 Gen. Sup. Rome & Mun

creator: Life of Mary Ward: The Briefe Relation
subject: Portrait at the Bar Convent, York
sponsor: with Winefrid Wigmore of the Painted Life of Mary Ward

She was the cousin of Helen Wigmore, Winefrid Wigmore, Elizabeth Wigmore.

Sources: biog dic; companions: 38-51; Mary Ward texts.

Family tree (Wigmore of Lucton)

Notes:

A Companion of Mary Ward and early biographer. Her brother, John Poyntz, was a Jesuit.

She was in Rome in 1624 with Mary Ward, Elizabeth Cotton and several others. Accompanied Mary Ward to Munich in 1627 where she was made Superior and developed the school. When the Institute was suppressed in 1631 it was Mary Poyntz who maintained a secret correspondence with Mary Ward. Although the school was closed in 1631, a small group remained together living as lay women. In 1633 she was summoned to Rome 1633-1637 by Mary Ward where she took charge of the community's house. Mary Ward, in search of health for herself and Mary Poyntz travelled to Liège and then on to London, arriving in 1639. They travelled northward to Yorkshire, finding refuge first at Heworth outside York, but the impact of the civil war made their conditions difficult. Mary Poyntz was with Mary Ward when she died at Heworth in 1645. She remained in England until 1650 when she was sent to Paris. Between 1654 and 1667 she was in Rome, Munich and Augsburg. Founder of the house and school in Augsburg with a founding community of English members. (CK-B)