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Reginald de Mohun II


Preferred Parents:
Father: Reynold de Mohun I, b. ABT 1183   d. ABT 1213 in Dunster, Somerset, England, United Kingdom
Mother: Alice Briwere, b. ABT 1187 in Devon, England   d. BEF 1246 in Surrey, England

Family 1: Alice Briwere,    b. ABT 1187 in Devon, England    d. BEF 1246 in Surrey, England
Family 2: Hawis de Bohun,       d. BEF 1243
  1. John de Mohun, b. ABT 1227 in Dunster, Somerset, England     d. 29 JUL 1253 in Gascogne, France
Family 3: Hawise FitzGeoffrey,    b. ABT 1207 in Streatley, Berkshire, England    d. 8 AUG 1247 in Tormohun, Devon, England
  1. John de Mohun, b. ABT 1227 in Dunster, Somerset, England     d. 29 JUL 1253 in Gascogne, France
  2. Alice de Mohun, b. 1222 in Dunster, Somerset, England     d. 1284 in Hatch, Somerset, England
  3. Lucy de Mohun, b. 1227 in England, United Kingdom     d. 1272 in England, United Kingdom
Family 4: Isabel de Ferrers,    b. ABT 1224 in Derby, Derbyshire, England    d. 26 NOV 1260 in Tormohun, Devon, England
  1. Isabel de Mohun, b. ABT 1255 in Dunster, Somerset, England     d. ABT 20 JUL 1293
Sources:
  1. Title: Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors
    Author: Citations [S3484] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. IV, p. 120, Vol. VI, p. 123; Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerage, 1883, p. 369; Ancestors of American Presidents by Gary Boyd Roberts, p. 144; OFHS Newsletter, June 1996, p. 40. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 568. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 103-104. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 179. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 516. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 564. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 100. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 99-100. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 271. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 606.
    Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p404.htm#i12126;
    Note: Sir Reynold II de Mohun, Justice of the Common Pleas, Governor of Saubey Castle1,2,3,4,5,6,7 Last Edited 4 Apr 2020 M, #12126, b. circa 1206, d. 20 January 1258 Father Sir Reynold de Mohun, Baron Dunster8 b. c 1183, d. 1213 Mother Alice de Briwere8 d. a 1240 Sir Reynold II de Mohun, Justice of the Common Pleas, Governor of Saubey Castle was born circa 1206 at of Dunster, Somersetshire, England. He married Hawise FitzGeoffrey, daughter of Sir Geoffrey FitzPiers, 4th Earl of Essex, Chief Justiciar of England, Constable of the Tower of London, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Westmorland, Hampshire, & Shropshire and Aveline de Clare, after 8 November 1227; They had 1 son (John) & 3 daughters (Alice, wife of William de Clinton, & of Sir Robert de Beauchamp; Juliane, wife of William de Lisle; & Lucy, wife of Sir John de Grey, & of Sir Arnold Murdac).4,5,7 Sir Reynold II de Mohun, Justice of the Common Pleas, Governor of Saubey Castle married Isabel de Ferrers, daughter of Sir William de Ferrers, 5th Earl Derby, Constable of Bolsover Castle and Sybil Marshal, before 1243; They had 2 sons (William; & James, parson of Brompton).6,7 Sir Reynold II de Mohun, Justice of the Common Pleas, Governor of Saubey Castle died on 20 January 1258 at Tor Mohun, Devonshire, England; Buried at Newenham Abbey, Devonshire.7 Family 1 Hawise FitzGeoffrey b. c 1210, d. b 1243 Children Lucy de Mohun+2,9,7 d. a 19 May 1290 Sir John Mohun+7 b. c 1228, d. 1254 Alice de Mohun+3,7,10 b. c 1230, d. bt 1282 - 1284 Family 2 Isabel de Ferrers b. c 1224, d. 26 Nov 1260 Children Isabel de Mohun+ d. b Nov 1260 William de Mohun b. c 1253, d. 1280
  2. Title: Wikisource -Dictionary of National Biography
    Author: Wikisource
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mohun,_Reginald_de_(DNB00);
    Note: MOHUN, MOUN, or MOYUN, REGINALD de (d. 1257), sometimes called Earl of Somerset, was son of Reginald de Mohun, lord of Dunster in Somerset, the great-grandson of William de Mohun (fl. 1141) [q.v.], earl of Somerset ; his mother was Alice, fourth daughter of William Brewer or Briwere [q.v.], who brought a large inheritance to her husband's family (Dugdale, Baronage, ii. 497), and married for her second husband William Paynell (Excerpta e Rotulis Finium, i. 169). Reginald was under age at the time of his father's death, which took place in or before 1213, and was a ward, first, of Henry FitzCount, son of the Earl of Cornwall, and afterwards of his own grandfather, William Brewer (ib. pp, 79, 242, 243). In 1234 he sat among the king's justices (Foss), in 1242 and 1252 he was chief justice of the forests south of Trent, and he received from Henry III rights of warren and of the chase and of a weekly market at Dunster. Among the lands that he inherited from his mother was Torre or Tor in Devonshire, where William Brewer had in 1196 founded a Premonstratensian abbey (Monasticon, vi. 923). There he often resided, having a court-house there, whence the place became called Torre Mohun or Tor-Moham. The Mohun arms are still to be seen on the ruins of the abbey, Reginald having confirmed the grants of his grandfather to the convent. His younger brother, William, having conveyed to him lands at Tor and Maryansleigh in Devonshire, at Endicombe, near Dunster, and at Clythorn, near Woodstock, in Oxfordshire, in order that he might build a Cistercian abbey in a suitable place, desiring that Reginald should be the founder and patron, he, with the advice of Alcius of Gisors, abbot of Beaulieu in Hampshire, founded in 1146 the abbey of Newenham at Axminster in Devonshire, and placed therein a colony of monks from Beaulieu, who took possession of their new house with much ceremony in the presence of Reginald and William on 6 Jan. 1247. In that year his foundation was confirmed by Pope Innocent IV, and a curious legend records that the pope, on his appearing at the papal court at Lyons, presented him with a rose, or other flower, of gold, and asked him of what degree he was Reginald replied that he was a plain knight bachelor, on which the pope said that, as such a gift could be made only to kings, dukes, or earls, Reginald should be earl of 'Este,' or Somerset, and to maintain his title granted him two hundred marks a year, and created him a count apostolic, with power to appoint public notaries (Fuller, Church History, ii. 178-80). It is certain that he bore as his arms a dexter hand holding a fleur-de-lys and habited in a maunch (figured by Lyte, p. 24), and sometimes styled himself Earl of Somerset; he did not, however, hold an English earldom. He and his brother William joined in laying foundation-stones of the church of Newenham in 1254. Reginald also made a grant to the convent of Bath for a mass to be said for ever for the souls of his son John, lately dead, and other members of his house, by a monk of Dunster priory [see under Mohun, William de, fl. 1066], or a secular priest, in the chapel of Dunster Castle (Lyte). He was a benefactor to the canons of Bruton [see under Mohun, William de, fl. 1141] and the abbey of Cleeve. He gave two charters to the townsmen of Dunster (Lyte). He died at Tor on 20 Jan. 1257, or possibly 1258 (Oliver, Monasticon Diocesis Exoniensis, p. 358), and was buried on the left side of the high altar at Newenham. A long account of his holy death is extant, by a monk of Newenham (ib.), who says that thirty-five years after Reginald's death the writer saw and touched the founder's body, which was then uncorrupt. Reginald's first wife was named Avice ; her surname is not known (it was not Bohun, as Dugdale says, mistaking the M of her married name for B, Lyte, p. 14 ; Somerset Archæological Society's Proceedings, vi. i. 27, 28). It has been suggested that she may have been the heiress of the Flemyngs of Ottery (Lyte, u. s.) By her he had a son John, who married Joan, daughter of William Ferrers, earl of Derby, and died in Gascony in 1254, leaving a son named John (d. 1279), whose son John (1270 P-1330) is separately noticed. Reginald's second wife was Isabel, widow of Gilbert Basset [q. v.], and daughter of William Ferrers, earl of Derby, by Sybilla, fourth daughter of William Marshal, earl of Pembroke (d. 1219) [q. v.], and so sister of her stepson's wife. By this marriage a part of the inheritance of the Earls Marshal fell to the Mohuns ; this part included certain lands in Leinster about which Reginald and his wife appear to have been involved in some legal proceedings (Calendar of Documents, Ireland, i. Nos. 2949, 3080, ii. Nos. 29, 139, 184). By Isabel Reginald had a son named William, who, besides inheriting part of the Marshal estates, was possessed of an estate that belonged to the Flemyngs (this, as Mr. Lyte notes, makes his suggestion that Reginald's first wife was a Flemyng improbable). Reginald was succeeded by his grandson John. His brother William died on 17 Sept. 1265, and was buried in Newenham Abbey. [Lyte's Dunster and its Lords, pp. 9-15, 24, 34 ; Oliver's Monasticon Dioc. Exon. pp. 169, 185, 357-71; Oliver's Eccl. Antiq. of Devon, i. 205-8 ; Davidson's Hist, of Newenham Abbey, pp. 2-11, 210-14; Foss's Judges, ii. 409; Fuller's Ch. Hist. ii. 178-80, ed. Brewer; Dugdale's Monasticon, v. 690 sq., vi. ii. 926 ; Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 497 ; Savage's Hist. of Carhampton, p. 468 ; Excerpta e Rot. Fin. i. 79, 169, 242, 243, ed. Roberts (Record Publ.); Cal. G-eneal. i. 94, 227, ed. Roberts (Record Publ.) ; Cal. of Docs., Ireland, i. Nos. 2949, 3080, ii. 29, 139, 184, ed. Sweetman (Rolls Ser.); Somerset Archaeol. Soc.'s Proc. 1856, vi. ii. 27.]
  3. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
    Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3L-O.htm#ReynoldMohundied1258A;
    Note: REYNOLD de Mohun, son of REYNOLD de Mohun of Dunster, Somerset & his wife Alice Briwere (-Tor Mohun, Devon 20 Jan 1258, bur Newenham). The primary source which confirms his parentage has not been identified. “Reginaldus de Mohun” donated “terra de Stortmanforde” to Clive abbey, for the soul of “piæ memoriæ Havisiæ de Mohun”, with the consent of “Willielmi de Mohun fratris mei”, by undated charter[1406]. “Reginaldus de Moun” founded Newenham abbey, Devonshire, for the souls of “Willelmi Briwer senioris et Willelmi Briwer junioris et uxorum suarum...Hawisiæ de Moun et Isabellæ Basset uxorum mearum et Willielmi de Moun fratris mei”, by undated charter[1407]. A manuscript records the death “III Kal Feb” 1257 of “dominus Reginaldus de Mohun fundator”[1408]. A manuscript records the burial at Newenham of “Reginaldus de Moun principalis fundator”[1409]. m firstly HAWISE [de Mohun], daughter of ---. “Reginaldus de Moun” founded Newenham abbey, Devonshire, for the souls of “Willelmi Briwer senioris et Willelmi Briwer junioris et uxorum suarum...Hawisiæ de Moun et Isabellæ Basset uxorum mearum et Willielmi de Moun fratris mei”, by undated charter[1410]. “Reginaldus de Mohun” donated “terra de Stortmanforde” to Clive abbey, for the soul of “piæ memoriæ Havisiæ de Mohun”, with the consent of “Willielmi de Mohun fratris mei”, by undated charter[1411]. m secondly (1243 or before) as her second husband, ISABEL de Ferrers, widow of GILBERT Basset [II] of Wycombe, daughter of WILLIAM de Ferrers Earl of Derby & his first wife Sibyl Marshall of the Earls of Pembroke (-before 26 Nov 1260). The Chronicle of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire names "Agnes, secunda Isabella, tertia Matilda, quarta Sibilla, quinta Johanna, sexta Alianora, septima Agatha" as the seven daughters of "Willielmo de Ferrers comiti Derbiæ" and his wife "quarta filia…Willihelmi Marescalli…Sibilla", adding that Isabel married "Reginaldo de Monteminori", by whom she was mother of "Willihelmus de Monte" who died childless, "filiam…Alianore" who married "Johanni filio Nicholai de Carrew", "Margareta soror eius" who died childless, and "Maria soror eius" who married "Johanni Meriot" but died childless[1412]. The Annals of Ireland record that “Sibilla comitissa de Ferreys” had seven daughters (in order) “secunda, Isabella Basset…”[1413]. A charter dated 28 Jun 1248 records that "Margaret late Countess of Lincoln…recovered her dower out of the lands in Ireland of W[alter] Marshall late Earl of Pembroke her husband" and that the dower was "taken out of the portions of the inheritance which accrued to William de Vescy and Agnes his wife, Reginald de Moun and Isabel his wife, Matilda de Kyme, Francis de Boun and Sibil his wife, William de Vallibus and Alienor his wife, John de Moun and Joan his wife, Agatha de Ferrers in the king’s custody, and Roger de Mortimer and Matilda his wife"[1414]. “Reginaldus de Moun” founded Newenham abbey, Devonshire, for the souls of “Willelmi Briwer senioris et Willelmi Briwer junioris et uxorum suarum...Hawisiæ de Moun et Isabellæ Basset uxorum mearum et Willielmi de Moun fratris mei”, by undated charter[1415]. A charter dated 26 May 1250 records the restoration of property, granted to "Margaret Countess of Lincoln", to "William de Vescy and Agnes his wife, Reginald de Moun and Isabel his wife, William de Fortibus and Matilda his wife, Francis de Boun and Sibil his wife, William de Vallibus and Alienor his wife, John de Moun and Joan his wife, Agatha de Ferrers in the king’s custody, Roger de Mortimer and Matilda his wife, and William de Cantilupe and Eva his wife"[1416]. A manuscript records the death “III Kal Feb” 1257 of “dominus Reginaldus de Mohun fundator” and in 1260 of “Isabella Basset uxor Reginaldi prædicti”[1417]. A writ dated 26 Nov "45 Hen III", after the death of "Isabel Basset" names "William son of Reginald de Moun and the said Isabel, age variously stated as 6 and 7, is her heir"[1418]. Reynold & his first wife had children: 1. JOHN de Mohun of Dunster (-Gascony [29 Jul 1253/1254]). m as her first husband, JOAN de Ferrers, daughter of WILLIAM de Ferrers Earl of Derby & his first wife Sibyl Marshall of the Earls of Pembroke (-[Oct 1267]). The Chronicle of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire names "Agnes, secunda Isabella, tertia Matilda, quarta Sibilla, quinta Johanna, sexta Alianora, septima Agatha" as the seven daughters of "Willielmo de Ferrers comiti Derbiæ" and his wife "quarta filia…Willihelmi Marescalli…Sibilla", adding that "Johanna quinta filia" married "Johanni de Mohun", by whom she was mother of "Johannes de Mohun, de quo Johannes, de eo Johannes"[1419]. The Annals of Ireland record that “Sibilla comitissa de Ferreys” had seven daughters (in order) “tertia, Johanna Mohun, uxor domini Johannis de Mohun, filii domini Reginaldi…”[1420]. A charter dated 28 Jun 1248 records that "Margaret late Countess of Lincoln…recovered her dower out of the lands in Ireland of W[alter] Marshall late Earl of Pembroke her husband" and that the dower was "taken out of the portions of the inheritance which accrued to William de Vescy and Agnes his wife, Reginald de Moun and Isabel his wife, Matilda de Kyme, Francis de Boun and Sibil his wife, William de Vallibus and Alienor his wife, John de Moun and Joan his wife, Agatha de Ferrers in the king’s custody, and Roger de Mortimer and Matilda his wife"[1421]. A charter dated 26 May 1250 records the restoration of property, granted to "Margaret Countess of Lincoln", to "William de Vescy and Agnes his wife, Reginald de Moun and Isabel his wife, William de Fortibus and Matilda his wife, Francis de Boun and Sibil his wife, William de Vallibus and Alienor his wife, John de Moun and Joan his wife, Agatha de Ferrers in the king’s custody, Roger de Mortimer and Matilda his wife, and William de Cantilupe and Eva his wife"[1422]. She married secondly (Aug 1256 or before) as his first wife, Sir Robert Aguillon of Watton and Perching. John & his wife had children: a) JOHN de Mohun (-11 Jun 1279). m as her first husband, ELEANOR, daughter of Sir REYNOLD FitzPiers & his first wife Alice --- (-after Jan 1283). She married secondly William Martin Lord Martin. John & his wife had children: i) JOHN de Mohun (-25 Aug 1330, bur Dunster Priory). He was summoned to Parliament in 1299 whereby he is held to have become Lord Mohun. - see below. b) [WILLIAM de Mohun (-before 20 Aug 1282). A writ dated 20 Aug "10 Edw I", after the death of "William de Mohun alias de Moun, de Mohon, do Mowon, de Mouhun", names "Reginald his son aged 5 at Christmas next is his next heir...aged 6...aged 7 and more” and records that “Beatrice late the wife of the said William” held Stoke Fleming, Devonshire “in tenancy by the king’s writ until her dower be assigned”[1423]. m BEATRICE, daughter of ---. A writ dated 20 Aug "10 Edw I", after the death of "William de Mohun alias de Moun, de Mohon, do Mowon, de Mouhun", records that “Beatrice late the wife of the said William” held Stoke Fleming, Devonshire “in tenancy by the king’s writ until her dower be assigned”[1424]. William & his wife had one child: i) REYNOLD de Mohun ([1274/77]-). A writ dated 20 Aug "10 Edw I", after the death of "William de Mohun alias de Moun, de Mohon, do Mowon, de Mouhun", names "Reginald his son aged 5 at Christmas next is his next heir...aged 6...aged 7 and more”[1425]. Reynold & his second wife had children: 2. ISABEL de Mohun . m EDMUND Deincourt, son of JOHN [II] Deincourt of Blankney, Lincolnshire & his second wife Agnes de Neville (-6 Jan 1327). He was summoned to Parliament from 1299, whereby he is held to have become Lord Deincourt. 3. LUCY de Mohun . m JOHN Grey, son of RICHARD de Grey of Codnor & his wife Lucy de Humez.
  4. Title: Wikipedia -Feudal Barony of Dunster, ReginaldI de Mohun
    Author: Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, pp. 1437–9, Fownes-Luttrell of Dunster Castle Douglas, Sarah, A Souvenir Guide: Dunster Castle and Gardens, 2013 Exmoor Oral History Archive, Dunster reminiscences of Julian Fownes Luttrell (born 1932), recorded in 2002 Maxwell Lyte, Sir Henry, A History of Dunster and of the Families of Mohun and Luttrell, 2 Parts, London, 1909: Part I, London, 1909 Part 2, London, 1909 (Appendices) Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086–1327, Oxford, 1960, p. 114, Dunster Somerset record Society, Vol.33, The Honour of Dunster Victoria County History, Somerset, Vol.1 Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp. 537–41, Luttrell
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudal_barony_of_Dunster#Reginald_I_de_Mohun_.281185.E2.80.931213.29;
    Note: (one of many from original article) Reginald II de Mohun (1206–1258) Reginald II de Mohun (1206–1258) (son), who married twice: firstly to Hawise Fleming, daughter and heiress of William Fleming,[9] and secondly to Isabel de Ferrers, widow of Gilbert Basset (died 1241)[10] and daughter of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby (1193–1254) by his wife Sibyl Marshal.[3]
  5. Title: Reynold II de Mohun, "Find A Grave Index"
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV28-24G2 : 14 June 2022), Reynold de Mohun, ; Burial, Axminster, East Devon District, Devon, England, Newenham Abbey; citing record ID 68266815, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV28-24G2;
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