Sir Rice owned estates at Penrice and Oxwich, and at the Dissolution of the Monasteries he purchased Margam Abbey, which remained the property of his descendants until 1941.
He married three times, firstly Eleanor Basset, and secondly, Anne Bridges.
[1] In 1527, he married his third wife, Cecily Dabridgecourt (died 1558), a daughter of William or John Dabridgecourt of Wolston and Solihull and Maria, a daughter of Richard Mynors of Treago,[2] From 1525, she was a lady in waiting to Lady Mary, later Mary I of England, who gave her gifts of jewellery.
[5][6] Anne Browne, Lady Petre, was chief mourner at her funeral at St Bartholomew-the-Great in September 1558.
[8] Rice Mansel's children with his third wife, Cecily Dabridgecourt, included: