John Reynell (politician)

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

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

  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)