Sir Reynold de Mohun Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁶⁰
Hawise Fitz Geoffrey, dead by 1243, married by 1226, as his first wife, Sir Reynold de Mohun, who was a minor in 1213-1222, an adult in 1227, who died 20 Jan 1257/8, at Torre Mohun, Devonshire, and was buried at Newenham Abbey. Sir Reynold de Mohum was Lord of Dunster, Somerset, Justice of Common Pleas, Chief Justice of the forests South of the Trent, and the son of Reynold de Mohun, Lord of Dunster by his wife Alice de Briwere, the fourth daughter and eventually coheir of Sir William de Briewere, Lord of Horsley, Derbyshire (d. 1226) by his wife Beatrice de Vaux.

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 143:27, 246B:28

• Background Information. ¹²⁴
Reynold de Mohun, son and heir to his father, also named Reynold, was a minor at the time of his father's death. His wardship was granted in 1213 to Henry fitz Count, and on Henry's death in 1222, to William Briwere, his own grandfather. He had livery by 1227, when he was made a knight. He accompanied the King on his French expedition in 1230, and to Wales in 1231. In 1242, he was to have two good ships provided for him to follow the King across the sea to Gascony, and in April of that same year, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Forests South of Trent. He served in the expedition into Wales in 1245, and in 1246, he refounded the abbey of newenham at Axminster.

Sir Reynold was a benefactor of the houses of Bruton, Barlinch and Cleeve. In 1252, he was appointed keeper of the royal forests South of Trent, with 100 marks for maintenance, and keeper, during pleasure of Sauvey Castle, Leicester. In 1253, he had grants of free warren at Dunster, Whichford and Ottery, and licence to hunt hare, fox, cat and badger in Somerset and one other county.

Sir Reynold married, as his first wife, Hawise, apparently the daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, Earl of Essex. As his second wife, he married sometime before 1243, Isabel, the childless widow of Sir Gilbert Basset, and the daughter of William de Ferrers by his first wife, Sibyl, daughter and coheir of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. Sir Reynold died 20 Jan 1257/8, at Tor Mohun in Devonshire, and he was buried at Newenham in front of the high altar on the left-handed side. His widow died before 26 Nov 1260.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IX , (Mohun), pp. 19-20

Reynold married Hawise Fitz Geoffrey, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Fitz Piers Knight, 4th Earl of Essex and Aveline de Clare ¹⁴¹.^,188 (Hawise Fitz Geoffrey was born in 1206 in Walden, Essex, England and died in 1243 in Dunster, Williton, Somerset, England ¹⁶⁰.)

Reynold next married Hawise le Fleming, daughter of William le Fleming and Unknown.