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John Reynell (politician)

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John Reynell (floruit 1427/28) was a Member of Parliament for Devon in 1427/28.[3]

Arms of Reynell: Argent, masonry sable a chief indented of the second[1]
Arms of Reynell (of 4 quarters: 1:Reynell; 2: (Argent, on a bend sable three bezants) Burden, 3: (Azure, on a fess engrailed argent three lozenges gules ) Stighull of Malston and East Ogwell, 4: (Per pale argent and gules, on a chevron azure three cross-crosslets botonee or) Thorber[2]) impaling Chichester (Chequy or and gules, a chief vair), sybolising marriage of John Reynell and Agnes Chichester. Detail from monument in East Ogwell Church to their nephew's grandson Richard Reynell (1519–1585), MP

Origins

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He was a son of Walter Reynell (fl. 1404) of Malston in the parish of Sherford, Devon, and of Badlingham in Cambridgeshire, a Member of Parliament for Devon in 1404,[4] by his second wife Margaret Stighull,[5] daughter and heiress[6] of William Stighull (alias Styl, Stigill, etc) of Malston and East Ogwell,[7] by his wife Elizabeth Malston, daughter and heiress of Robert Malston of Malston. His elder brother was Walter Reynell (died 1478) of Malston, a Member of Parliament for Devon in 1454/55.[8]

Marriage

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He married Agnes Chichester, a daughter of the Chichester family[9] then recently seated at Raleigh in the parish of Pilton, Devon.[10]

Death

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He predeceased his father without progeny.[11]

References

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  1. ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp. 643–5, pedigree of Reynell, p. 643
  2. ^ Adams, Maxwell, Some Notes on the Churches and manors of East and West Ogwell, published in Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 32 (Vol. 2, second series), Plymouth, 1900, pp. 232–3 [1][2]
  3. ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 643: regnal date "6 Henry IV" (sic), probably "6 Henry VI" 1427/8; corrected date deduced as his brother was Walter Reynell (died 1478) of Malston (Vivian, p. 643) a Member of Parliament for Devon in 1454/5 (Vivian, p. 643)
  4. ^ Biography of "Reynell (Reynald), Walter, of Malston, Devon and Badlingham, Cambs.", published in History of Parliament: House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 [3]
  5. ^ Biography of "Reynell (Reynald), Walter, of Malston, Devon and Badlingham, Cambs.", published in History of Parliament: House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 [4]
  6. ^ Vivian, p. 643
  7. ^ Pole, p. 251; Prince p. 695
  8. ^ Regnal date 33 Henry VI per Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp. 643–5
  9. ^ Vivian, p. 643
  10. ^ Not shown in the pedigree of Chichester in Vivian, p. 172
  11. ^ Vivian, p. 643, ante patrem s(ine) p(role)
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