Reginald de Snyterby

Reginald de Snyterby (died 1436) was an Irish judge of the fifteenth century, from a family of English origin which produced several Irish judges.

He was probably born in Dublin, to a family which originated in Snitterby, Lincolnshire, and came to Ireland in the late thirteenth century. Since the lands were admitted to be Reginald's, and Bernevall's it is unclear why a pardon was required He received a pardon for a similar action ten years later.

In 1418 he was one of those given permission to found a new chapel called St. John's Chapel, near Dublin, along with his future colleague on the Bench, Roger Hawkenshaw. Whether the chapel was actually built is uncertain.

In 1421 he sat on a commission with William Tynbegh, Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, and Richard Bermingham, second Baron of the Exchequer, to hear charges of treason in County Dublin. In 1423 or 1424 he was appointed one of the justices and Keepers of the Peace for Dublin, together with Richard Talbot), Archbishop of Dublin. He was appointed second Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) in February 1424. He was a member of the Privy Council of Ireland, and there is a record of his attendance at a Council meeting in December 1428, where he was asked if he knew of any precedent for the Lord Treasurer of Ireland appointing a Deputy to act in his absence.

In 1426/7 Reginald, Blakeney and Cornwalsh were the judges who sat on a judicial commission at Trim, County Meath to hear an indictment for theft (he had allegedly stolen a chalice) against the Bishop of Meath, Edward Dantsey, which ended in his acquittal (a man called Penthony later confessed to being the thief).

He appears to have owned considerable property in Dublin. He had one daughter Joanna,