Richard Revel

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹³⁰⁴
Sir Richard Revell (or Rivel), knight and landowner, said to have been the son of William Revell [Pole, Devonshire, p. 82], probably a landowner in Devonshire and lord of Revelstoke in that county, received from Henry II grants of 'Curi' or Curry Rivell, and Langport, both in Somerset (MS. Record Office,Carte Antiquæ, R., Nos. 11, 12], and is said to have built a castle at Langport [Somerset Archæological Society's Proceedings, xi. i. 8)]. He was sheriff of Devonshire and Cornwall from the sixth to the tenth years of Richard I [Thirty-first Report of the Deputy-Keeper of the Records, p. 279[, and is said to have received from Richard the custody of the castles of Exeter and Launceston [Pole]. He was paying rent to the crown in the reign of John, and was at Carrickfergus, Kilkenny, and Dublin in 1210, during the expedition to Ireland of that year [Rotuli de Liberate, &c., pp. 180, 204, 220].

Sir Richard Revell married Mabel, sister and heir of Walter de Esselegh, or Ashley, in Wiltshire, and died in 1222. He appears to have had a son named Richard [Chancery Rolls, p. 94], who probably predeceased his father, for the elder Richard's heir, subject to the dower of his wife Mabel, who survived him, was his only daughter Sabina, wife of Henry de l'Orti. She survived her husband, who died in 1241, and had livery of the lands of her inheritance in Somerset and Dorset, which passed to her on Henry de l'Orti (de Urtiaco), summoned to parliament in 1299. It is probable that Revel's Hill, near Mintern in Dorset, takes its name from Sir Richard Revell. Contemporaries of Sir Richard were the landowners William Revell in Wiltshire and Hugh Revell in Northamptonshire; their connection with Sir Richard is not known.

~Rev. William Hunt, Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. XVI, p. 920

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Sir Henry del Ortiay married, before 17 August 1222, Sabine, daughter (and in that year heir) of Richard Revel the younger, by his wife Mabel, sister (and in 1246 heir) of Walter de Esselegh. He died before 1 May 1242. His widow died between August 1253 and 2 April 1254.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. X, p. 182

Richard married Mabel de Esselegh ¹⁴¹.^,1304 (Mabel de Esselegh died in 1252 in Curry Mallet, Somerset, England ¹⁴¹.)