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[[File:Sir Stephen de Penchester - geograph.org.uk - 844039.jpg|thumb|Memorial to Stephen de Pencester at [[St John the Baptist, Penshurst]]]]
'''Stephen de Pencester''' was Warden of the [[Cinque Ports]] when the first authoritative list of Cinque Ports Confederation Members was produced in 1293.<ref name=hasted>{{cite journal |last=Hasted |first=Edward |year=1800 |title=Parishes |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63619 |journal=The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |volume=10 |pages=152–216 |accessdate=10 March 2014}}</ref>

Pencester was [[Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports]] for 32 years, his tenure finishing in 1299 when the Baron de Burghersh was elected; it is reasonable to assume he began his administration in 1267.

Pencester was married to Margerie (a great-granddaughter of [[Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent|Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent]]). They resided both at [[Allington, Kent|Allington]] and [[Penshurst]].<ref name=Tunstall>{{cite journal |last=Hasted |first=Edward |year=1798 |title=Parishes |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62948 |journal=The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |volume=6 |pages=80–98|accessdate=4 April 2014}}</ref>

When Pencester died in 1303, Margerie then married to Robert de Orreby. After her death, an inquest found that she had inherited the parish of [[Tunstall, Kent|Tunstall in Kent]] and this parish passed to her daughters (of Pencester): Joane, the wife of Henry de Cobham, of Rundale, and Alice, wife of John de Columbers.<ref name=Tunstall/>

An effigy of Pencester is on display in Penshurst village's [[St John the Baptist, Penshurst|St John the Baptist church]], in the Sidney family chapel, and the Pencester-owned [[Penshurst Place]] estate before the Baron's Hall was built by the new owner of the estate, Sir [[John de Pulteney]] in 1341.

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| before = Sir [[Matthew de Bezille]]
| title = [[Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports]]
| years = 1267–1299
| after = [[Robert de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh|The Lord Burghersh]]
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