Walter Reynell (fl.1404)


Walter Reynell was a Member of Parliament for Devon in 1404.

Origins

He was the son and heir of John Reynell of Trumpington in Cambridgeshire by his wife Maud de Fulburne, daughter of Giles de Fulburne of Cambridgeshire. 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 Hugh Reynell , the 19th Grand Master of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem in 1275, who is memorialised by a small harbour in Malta called Renelle. The earliest recorded member of the Reynell family is Sir Richard Reynell , of Pitney in Somerset, Sheriff of Devon in 1191–4, Walter Reynell's great-great-great grandfather.

Marriages and children

He married three times: