Walter Reynell (died 1478)

Walter Reynell (died 1478) of Malston in the parish of Sherford, Devon, was a Member of Parliament for Devon in 1454/5.[2]

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

Origins

He was a son of Walter Reynell (fl.1404) a Member of Parliament for Devon in 1404,[3] by his second wife Margaret Stighull,[4] daughter and heiress[5] of William Stighull (alias Styl, Stigill, etc.) of Malston and East Ogwell,[6] by his wife Elizabeth Malston, daughter and heiress of Robert Malston of Malston. His younger brother was John Reynell (fl.1427/8), a Member of Parliament for Devon in 1427/8,[7] who married Agnes Chichester, a daughter of the Chichester family[8] then recently seated at Raleigh in the parish of Pilton, Devon.[9]

Marriage and children
Arms of Reynell impaling Walrond (Argent, three bull's heads cabossed sable armed or), sybolising marriage of Walter Reynell and Joane Walrond. Detail from monument in East Ogwell Church to their great-grandson Richard Reynell(1519-1585), MP

He married Joane Walrond, a daughter of William Walrond of Bradfield[10] in the parish of Uffculme in Devon. This marriage is symbolised on the base of the monument in East Ogwell Church to the couple's great-grandson[11] Richard Reynell(1519-1585), MP, namely an heraldic escutcheon on the base of his chest tomb displaying the arms of Reynell impaling Walrond (Argent, three bull's heads cabossed sable armed or).[12][13] By his wife he had children including:

  • Robert Reynell, who predeceased his father, having married Thomasine Hatch,[14] the senior line of whose family was seated at Woolleigh in the parish of Beaford, Devon.[15] He had a son John Reynell who died childless having married Jane Holwell, a daughter of Sir .... Holwell of Holwellsarke.[16]
  • Walter Reynell of Malston and of East Ogwell,[17] 2nd son and heir, who married twice:
    • Firstly to Joane Whiting, a daughter of Robery Whiting, without children;
    • Secondly to Radegund Copleston, a daughter of Philip Copleston (fl.1471/2) of Copleston in Devon, Sheriff of Devon in 1471/2,[18] by his wife Anne Bonville, daughter and heiress of John Bonville (1417–1494)[19] of Shute, nephew of William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville (1392–1461) of Shute. As Pole (d.1635) stated: "By this match of Bonvile's daughter the estate of Copleston was greatly augmented".[20] Her brother was Raphe Copleston (died 1491), called "The Great Copleston"[21] for his great revenue.[22] By Radegund Coppleston he had 4 sons and two daughters, including:
      • John Reynell of East Ogwell, eldest son and heir and father of Richard Reynell(1519-1585), of East Ogwell,[23] MP;
      • Thomas Reynell of Malston, 2nd son,[24] to whom his father gave the manor of Malston,[25] where he established his own family line.
    • Margaret Reynell, wife of Richard Champernowne of Instow, Devon.[26]
    • Jane Reynell, wife of John Stretchleigh[27] of Stretchleigh (today "Strashleigh") in the parish of Ermington, Devon.

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. 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
  3. 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. 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
  5. Vivian, p.643
  6. Pole, p.251; Prince p.695
  7. Vivian, p.643, regnal date "6 Henry IV" (sic, 1404/5), should probably be "6 Henry VI" (1427/8)
  8. Vivian, p.643
  9. Not shown in the pedigree of Chichester in Vivian, p.172
  10. Vivian, p.643
  11. Vivian, p.643
  12. Vivian, p.768, pedigree of Walrond
  13. 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
  14. Vivian, p.643
  15. Vivian, p.455, pedigree of Hatch, Thomasine Hatch not mentioned
  16. Vivian, p.643, militis, knight
  17. Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, p.695
  18. Vivian, p.224; Stabb, J., Some Old Devon Churches, London, 1908–16, p.65
  19. Vivian, p.102, pedigree of Bonville of Shute
  20. Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.335
  21. Vivian, p.224
  22. Pole, p.225
  23. Vivian, p.643
  24. Vivian, p.643
  25. Pole, p.287
  26. Vivian, p.643
  27. Vivian, p.643; p.716, pedigree of Stretchleigh, in which she is called "Elinor"
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