Walter Reynell (fl.1404)

Arms of Reynell: Argent, masonry sable a chief indented of the second[1]

Walter Reynell (fl.1404) was a Member of Parliament for Devon in 1404.[2]

Origins

He was the son and heir of John Reynell (d.1363/4)[3] of Trumpington in Cambridgeshire (stated in the Heraldic Visitation of Devon of 1620 to have been a Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire in 1351/2) by his wife Maud de Fulburne[4] (alias Fulborne,[5] etc), daughter of Giles de Fulburne of Cambridgeshire.[6] His identity is confused in the pedigree in the Heraldic Visitation of Devon of 1620, which shows his son Walter, rather than himself, as the husband of Margaret Stighull. His uncle was Sir[7] Hugh Reynell (fl.1275) (alias Hugues de Revel[8]), the 19th (or 20th) Grand Master of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem in 1275, who is memorialised by a small harbour in Malta called Renelle.[9] The earliest recorded member of the Reynell family is Sir Richard Reynell (d.pre-1213) (alias Reinell,[10] Reynolds, etc), of Pitney in Somerset, Sheriff of Devon in 1191-4, [11] Walter Reynell's great-great-great grandfather.

Marriages & progeny

He married thrice:

  • Firstly, at some time before 1376, he married a certain Agnes;[12]
  • Secondly, before 1383, he married Margaret Stighull,[13] daughter and heiress[14] of William Stighull (alias Styl, Stigill, etc) by his wife Elizabeth Malston, daughter and heiress of Robert Malston of Malston, in the parish of Sherford in Devon, by whom he had progeny including:
  • Thirdly, at some time before 1400, he married Joan Bassingbourne, daughter and heiress of John Bassingbourne of Badlingham,[28] and cousin and heiress of Alan le Francis,[29] by whom he had 3 sons and 4 daughters.[30]

Sources

  • 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
  • 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

References

  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. ↑ 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. ↑ Vivian, p.643, regnal date 37 Edward III
  4. ↑ Vivian, p.643
  5. ↑ History of Parliament
  6. ↑ History of Parliament
  7. ↑ Burke
  8. ↑ https://www.orderofmalta.int/history/the-grand-masters/
  9. ↑ Vivian, p.643; Burke, John, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 4, London, 1838, p.446
  10. ↑ Vivian, p.643
  11. ↑ Vivian, p.643
  12. ↑ History of Parliament
  13. ↑ History of Parliament
  14. ↑ Vivian, p.643
  15. ↑ Vivian, p.643
  16. ↑ History of Parliament, indicated by a cross, "details not yet entered" online Sept 2017
  17. ↑ Vivian, p.643
  18. ↑ Vivian, p.643; p.768, pedigree of Walrond
  19. ↑ Vivian, p.643, regnal date "6 Henry IV" (sic, 1404/5), should probably be "6 Henry VI" (1427/8)
  20. ↑ Vivian, p.643
  21. ↑ Not shown in the pedigree of Chichester in Vivian, p.172
  22. ↑ Vivian, p.643, ante patrem s(ine) p(role)
  23. ↑ Vivian, p.643
  24. ↑ Vivian, p.643; p.369, pedigree of Fowell of Fowelscombe
  25. ↑ Vivian, pp.643, 369
  26. ↑ Vivian, p.369 "MI"
  27. ↑ Vivian, p.643
  28. ↑ History of Parliament
  29. ↑ Vivian, p.643
  30. ↑ History of Parliament
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