Walter Reynell

Arms of Reynell: Argent, masonry sable a chief indented of the second as shown in The Visitations of the County of Devon.

Walter Reynell (died 1475), of Malston in the parish of Sherford, was an English landowner, administrator and politician from Devon who sat as MP for Totnes in 1447 and as MP for Devon in 1453.

Origins Born about 1395, he was the son of Walter Reynell (died after 1424), a landowner who sat as MP for Devon in 1404, and his second wife Margaret Stighull (died before 1399), daughter of William Stighull and his wife Elizabeth Malston. His paternal grandparents were John Reynell (died before 1365), reported to have been MP for Cambridgeshire in 1351, and his wife Maud Fulbourn, daughter of Giles Fulbourn. The MP John Reynell was his younger half-brother. About 1425 he married Joan Walrond, daughter of William Walrond, of Bradfield in the parish of Uffculme, and his wife Juliana. and their children included: Robert Reynell (died before 25 February 1460), who married Thomasine Hatch. Walter Reynell, who married first Joan Whiting, daughter of Robert Whiting, and secondly Radegund Coplestone, daughter of Philip Coplestone, of Coplestone, and his wife Anne Bonville. Margaret Reynell, who married Richard Champernowne, of Instow. Eleanor Reynell (called Joan in some sources), who married John Stretchleigh, of Stretchleigh (now written Strashleigh) in the parish of Ermington.