John Reynell (floruit 1427/28) was a Member of Parliament for Devon in 1427/28.
Origins
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, by his second wife Margaret Stighull, daughter and heiress of William Stighull (alias Styl, Stigill, etc) of Malston and East Ogwell, 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.
Marriage
He married Agnes Chichester, a daughter of the Chichester family then recently seated at Raleigh in the parish of Pilton, Devon.
Death
He predeceased his father without progeny.
References
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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, p. 643
- Pole, p. 251; Prince p. 695
- 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
- Vivian, p. 643
- Not shown in the pedigree of Chichester in Vivian, p. 172
- Vivian, p. 643, ante patrem s(ine) p(role)