Hugues de Revel
Hugues de Revel (d.1277) was the 19th (or 20th) Grand Master of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem (1258–1277).[2]
Origins
According to John Lambrick Vivian and John Burke, Revel was an Englishman, Hugh Reinell, a younger son of Walter Reynell of Pitney in Somerset by his wife Maude of Trumpington, daughter and heiress of Everard of Trumpington, lord of the manor of Trumpington in Cambridgeshire.[3][4]
Revel’s elder brother was John Reynell (died 1363/4) of Trumpington in Cambridgeshire, stated in the Heraldic Visitation of Devon of 1620 to have been a Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire in 1351/2,[3] who married Maud of Fulburne (or Fulborne),[5] a daughter of Giles of Fulburne of Cambridgeshire.[6]
The earliest recorded member of the Reynell family is of Sir Richard Reynell (or Reinell, Reynolds, etc.), who died before 1213, of Pitney in Somerset, Sheriff of Devon in 1191-4,[3] Hugh Reynell's great-great-grandfather.
References
- Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp.643-5, pedigree of Reynell, p.643
- https://www.orderofmalta.int/history/the-grand-masters/
- John Lambrick Vivian, Ed., The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620 (Exeter, 1895), p. 643, pedigree of Reynell
- Burke, John, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 4, London, 1838, p.446p. 447
- History of Parliament
- J. S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe, eds., "Reynell (Reynald), Walter, of Malston, Devon and Badlingham, Cambs.", in History of Parliament: House of Commons 1386-1421 (1993), online edition, accessed 10 May 2020