The Reynell surname is an early form of the Reynolds (surname)

Reynolds (surname)

Reynolds is a surname in the English language. There are two major lineages of the surname, Irish and English. Among the earliest recorded use of the surname is from the early 14th century; Walter Reynolds ‎of Worcester, England.-Irish Reynolds:...

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The coat of arms for the Reynell family is described as:

Reynells of Ogwell

ARMS - Masonry argent and sable, a chief indented of the second.

CREST - A fox passant or, being the crest of Strighall.

MOTTOES - Murus aheneus esto, and Indubitata Fides.

SUPPORTERS - As anciently borne, two foxes.

Sources include Rev. John Prince

John Prince (Totnes)

John Prince was vicar of Totnes and Berry Pomeroy in Devon, England, and was a biographer of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He is notable for his major work, The Worthies of Devon...

's The Worthies of Devon (1697?), and John Lambrick Vivian (editor), The Visitations of the Heralds to the County of Devon (1895). Prince described the Reynell family as being 'descended from a very antient stock, transplanted hither from the county of Cambridge

Cambridge

The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...

... above three hundred years since; where it still flourishes in worshipful degree'. The Heralds Visitations of 1620 traced earlier generations of the family and described the first of this distinguished line as 'Richard Reinell who had the custody of the Castles of Exeter

Exeter

Exeter is a historic city in Devon, England. It lies within the ceremonial county of Devon, of which it is the county town as well as the home of Devon County Council. Currently the administrative area has the status of a non-metropolitan district, and is therefore under the administration of the...

 (built by Baldwin de Redvers) and Launceston... 1191, Sheriff of Devon 1191-94'

Between the reigns of King John

John of England

John , also known as John Lackland , was King of England from 6 April 1199 until his death...

 and Henry V

Henry V of England

Henry V was King of England from 1413 until his death at the age of 35 in 1422. He was the second monarch belonging to the House of Lancaster....

, the Reynells 'were ever men of great credit, fidelity, and service, to their Kings, country and state as well in peace matters as wars' They had great 'revenues, offices, lordships and lands, in sundry shires' including Somerset

Somerset

The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...

, Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...

 and Yorkshire

Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...

, but their greatest possessions were in Devon

Devon

Devon is a large county in southwestern England. The county is sometimes referred to as Devonshire, although the term is rarely used inside the county itself as the county has never been officially "shired", it often indicates a traditional or historical context.The county shares borders with...

 and Cornwall

Cornwall

Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

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By the end of this period these included Malston (Old and New), Netherton, Frogmere, East Ogwell, Butterley

Butterley

Butterley is a village in the English county of Derbyshire near to Ripley. It is the site of the Midland Railway - Butterley, as well as the old Butterley Brickworks.- Notable residents :...

, Sandhulk, Ellacombe

Ellacombe, Devon

Ellacombe is a village in Devon, England, near Torbay.-References:Ellacombe is not a village near Torbay. It is a District of Torquay in the County Borough of Torbay....

, Crews-Morchard, Upton

Upton, Cornwall

Upton Cross and Upton are hamlets a quarter of a mile apart in east Cornwall, England, UK. Upton is situated at north of Upton Cross 5 miles northwest of Callington. They are on the northeast side of Caradon Hill on the B3254 Liskeard to Launceston road...

, Hidswell, Nootcombe, East and West Thwangley, Nassey, East-Raddon, Colebrook, Trebarch, Trebligha, Hyerland, Watringdon, Overcombe

Overcombe

Overcombe is an area in Preston in south Dorset, England, situated on top of cliffs east of Weymouth. It is the location of Jordan Hill Roman Temple.-External links:...

, Upbutterley, Nethercombe, Carpenters Fosse, Cottesbury, Ley

LEY

LEY may refer to:* Lelystad Airport, The Netherlands; IATA airport code: LEY* Leyland railway station, England; National Rail station code: LEY...

, South-Downs, Shernewicke, Pittes, Eastabrook, Snedon, Penmalth, Overhosdon, Polhele, Tremollow, Wiero, St. Germans, Bodmin

Bodmin

Bodmin is a civil parish and major town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated in the centre of the county southwest of Bodmin Moor.The extent of the civil parish corresponds fairly closely to that of the town so is mostly urban in character...

 and lands in other villages and in Plymouth

Plymouth

Plymouth is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England, about south-west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound...

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Some Reynells were with Henry V at the winning of Harfleur

Harfleur

-Population:-Places of interest:* The church of St-Martin, dating from the fourteenth century.* The seventeenth century Hôtel de Ville .* Medieval ramparts * The fifteenth century museums of fishing and of archaeology and history....

 (a port later replaced by Le Havre

Le Havre

Le Havre is a city in the Seine-Maritime department of the Haute-Normandie region in France. It is situated in north-western France, on the right bank of the mouth of the river Seine on the English Channel. Le Havre is the most populous commune in the Haute-Normandie region, although the total...

) and Agincourt

Battle of Agincourt

The Battle of Agincourt was a major English victory against a numerically superior French army in the Hundred Years' War. The battle occurred on Friday, 25 October 1415 , near modern-day Azincourt, in northern France...

 in 1415, some were keepers of the Castle at Calais

Calais

Calais is a town in Northern France in the department of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's capital is its third-largest city of Arras....

, one of the Cinque Ports

Cinque Ports

The Confederation of Cinque Ports is a historic series of coastal towns in Kent and Sussex. It was originally formed for military and trade purposes, but is now entirely ceremonial. It lies at the eastern end of the English Channel, where the crossing to the continent is narrowest...

, some were 'knights of this shire in Parliament

Parliament of England

The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England. In 1066, William of Normandy introduced a feudal system, by which he sought the advice of a council of tenants-in-chief and ecclesiastics before making laws...

' and some served 'their Kings with a band of their own men at arms

Man-at-arms

Man-at-arms was a term used from the High Medieval to Renaissance periods to describe a soldier, almost always a professional warrior in the sense of being well-trained in the use of arms, who served as a fully armoured heavy cavalryman...

'. One Reynell was secretary to Henry VI

Henry VI of England

Henry VI was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. Until 1437, his realm was governed by regents. Contemporaneous accounts described him as peaceful and pious, not suited for the violent dynastic civil wars, known as the Wars...

 and travelled with him to conclude a peace with France. The most consistent association of the family was with the law, 'sitting with the judges of the kingdom, in taking assizes, and determining grievous enormities', and it is to this tradition that Richard Reynell

Richard Reynell

Richard Reynell may refer to:*Sir Richard Reynell, of Pyttney*Sir Richard Reynell, knight of Pyttney*Richard Reynell , English MP*Sir Richard Reynell , barrister and probably MP for Mitchell...

 (d.1585) belonged, being a commissioner of the peace for nearly forty years.

People

People whose family name is or was Reynell include:

• Richard Reynell
  Richard Reynell
  Richard Reynell may refer to:*Sir Richard Reynell, of Pyttney*Sir Richard Reynell, knight of Pyttney*Richard Reynell , English MP*Sir Richard Reynell , barrister and probably MP for Mitchell...
  
   - there are many people named Richard Reynell
  • Sir Richard Reynell, of Pyttney
  • Sir Richard Reynell, knight of Pyttney
    Sir Richard Reynell, knight of Pyttney
    Sir Richard Reynell ,son of Sir Richard Reynell, of Pyttney ,was a knight to whom King John restored the lands of which his father had been deprived, on condition that he should serve him with horse and armour for one year. Details of this arrangement appear in a deed dated at Bined, 27 July 1214,...
    
    
  • Richard Reynell (East Ogwell)
    Richard Reynell (East Ogwell)
    Richard Reynell of East Ogwell, Devon, was an English Member of Parliament. An account of him and his sons is given by John Prince in his Worthies of Devon.-Life:...
    
    
  • Sir Richard Reynell (Ford House, Devon)
    Sir Richard Reynell (Ford House, Devon)
    Sir Richard Reynell , was the third son of Richard Reynell of East Ogwell in Devon, England. In 1593 he was probably Member of Parliament for the Cornish rotten borough of Mitchell together with Walter Raleigh...
    
    
• Walter Reynell - there are many people named Walter Reynell
• John Reynell
  John Reynell
  John Reynell was a South Australian winemaker.Reynell was born in 1809 from a Devonshire farming family. He arrived in Port Adelaide, South Australia in 1838 and established his property about 20 kilometres south of the main settlement of Adelaide in the area that became known as McLaren...
  
   - there are many people named John Reynell
• Thomas Reynell
  Thomas Reynell
  Thomas Reynell was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1689....
  
   - there are many people named Thomas Reynell
• George Reynell - there are many people named George Reynell
• Hugh Reynell