John Reynell

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 ) 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.

Origins 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, by his second wife Margaret Stighull, daughter and heiress of William Stighull (alias Styl, Stigill, etc) of Malston and East Ogwell, 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.

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

Death He predeceased his father without progeny.