John Reynell (politician)

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

[3] 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,[4] by his second wife Margaret Stighull,[5] daughter and heiress[6] of William Stighull (alias Styl, Stigill, etc) of Malston and East Ogwell,[7] 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.

[8] He married Agnes Chichester, a daughter of the Chichester family[9] then recently seated at Raleigh in the parish of Pilton, Devon.

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