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Part 2. The children of William Revell of Newbold Revell. 

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Version 2 June 23 rd 2012 

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William Revell of Newbold 

The ancestry of this William Revell is discussed extensively in Part 1 and his relationship to the other branches of the Revells 

illustrated in Table 1b to the extent that this is possible. Considerable uncertainty remains, but the commonly promulgated 

pedigrees are not supported by the evidence that is available. Table 2 illustrates the descent of the Revells as described in this 

document. 

To recap briefly from Part 1, William Revell of Newbold was probably born no later than ca 1250. He is documented 

unequivocally recorded as of age from 1290 and lived to at least 1316, but was dead by 1327. His mother is clearly defined as 

Alice Revell, probably Alice de Wappenbury, and she was probably a widow by 1294. His father is not unequivocally defined 

but thought to be Robert Revell of Tiffield, son of Hugh. 

William Revell of Newbold has a sister Agnes Revell, also probably widowed by 1294, and two sons. His younger son John 

Revell is probably of age in 1294, in which case John was born no later than ca 1274 and William of Newbold no later than ca 

1250. The identity of William of Newbold’s wife is not known but it seems likely that she was dead by 1294. 

William Revell of Newbold had extensive holdings in Northamptonshire and Warwickshire. 

Sir John Revell ?–1274–1288–1347, second son of William Revell of Newbold 

John Revell’s date of birth and marriage are not certainly known. It is clear that he was of age on April 27 th 1308 when the 

Patent Rolls record him, along with Roger de Wyk, as being granted power of attorney for ‘Reginald son of Reginald’, 1 but as 

discussed above it is possible that he was of age when named explicitly in a lease dated June 25 th 1294, below. However, if so, 

the lack of records in the period 1294 to 1308 is unexpected. Also, although his children’s dates of birth are not recorded, three 

lived into the 1370s. 

‘Lease (indented) with warranty, by William Revel of Fenni neubaut, to Dame Alic Revel, his mother and Dame Agnes her 

daughter, his sister, of all his manor of Brouneswaure, with all appurtenances and also all his land with rents, escheats, wards 

etc., which he had in the town of Bouckby, Northants. To hold the aforesaid for all their lives as long as they both shall live. 

Rendering yearly to him £50 sterling at the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and at Michaelmas, and all other services. 

If Agnes and Alice outlive him, they are to continue to hold the land and to render yearly to his heirs, a rose at the Nativity of 

John the Baptist, for all other services and secular demands; after the deaths of Alice and Agnes the manor and all 

appurtenances are to revert to the closest of his heirs. And his heirs are to pay yearly to John Revel his son during his lifetime, 

£20. To wit £10 at the Annunciation and £10 at Michaelmas, as is required by a bond he made with the same John’. 2 

Peter R. Coss in ‘The origins of the English Gentry’ says that he has regarded ‘John Ryvel (alias Revel) and John Ryvel of 

Newbold’ and ‘John de Newbold’ as the same man. He records that John represented Warwickshire in Parliament and was for 

some time, perhaps about 1323 to his death in 1347, involved in the collection of taxes, either as a ‘taxer’ or a ‘mainpernor’ or 

guarantor. 3 So far I have found no records referring to ‘John de Newbold’ and it is possible these are the records covering the 

otherwise largely undocumented period 1294 to 1308. 

In 1301 a John Rynel is paying 16 d in the tax assessment at Grafton, Northamptonshire, 4 about three miles from Cosgrove and 

some 12 miles south of Long Buckby, but he is not necessarily the same individual. 

1 Patent Rolls http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/e2v1/body/Edward2vol1page0066.pdf 

2 CR162/57 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=187-cr162&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 

3 The origins of the English gentry 

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=H_PUna4WDAUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22origins+of+the+english+gentry%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JJDkT 

5uXGcjf8QPZpe3YCg&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22origins%20of%20the%20english%20gentry%22&f=false 

4 Northamptonshire Tax Assessment http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/subsidies/transcripts/cleyley1301.shtml#223 

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In 1311 there is a somewhat unexpected, geographically remote, reference to a John Revel that does not necessarily relate to this 

individual. This John Revel is recorded as holding briefly the estates at Newport, Essex, confiscated from Piers de Gaveston, 

and restored to him in 1312. 5 

In 1316 the Feet of Fines records that William Revell had made over to John Revell in tail, with contingent remainder to his 

brother Robert Revell, his estate at Fenny Newbold, ‘consisting of 16 messuages, 11 virgates of land, with woodland, meadow, 

pasture, and a mill in Newbold, Easenhall, Stretton and Pailton’. 6 

At some uncertain date during the reign of Edward II, i.e.1307–1327, and probably ca 1316 (see above), there is a record of a 

grant, as follows: 

‘Grant by William Revel of Fenni Neubold, to Robert Revel his son, in tail, of his manor of Bukkeby, with all his lands &c. in 

Bukkeby, with remainder to John Revel, Robert's brother, and reversion to the grantor’. 7 

On June 3 rd 1319 he and his brother are the subject of an ‘oyer and terminer’, as follows: 8 

‘Commission of oyer and terminer to William de Beresford, John Chaynel and John de Langeleye on complaint of Thomas 

Boyclyn of Stretton that he was assaulted at Bylneye, co. Warwick by John Ryvel of Fenny-Neubold and Robert Ryvel of 

Buckeby’. 

On August 4 th 1322 John Revel is recorded in the Patent Rolls as being given protection for accompanying the earl of Arundel 

going to Scotland on the king’s service. 9 His service to the county is summarised by Peter R. Coss, 10 including his appointment 

as a Knight of Warwickshire in 1337. Further details of some of these duties are given below. 

John Revel is again the subject of an ‘oyer and terminer’ on May 18 th 1324 following an assault on the Prior of St Guthlac at 

11 12 

Ross (Herefordshire), according to a footnote in the Register of Adam de Orleton as follows, and in the Patent Rolls: 

‘A commission of oyer and terminer is issued, on May 18, 1324, to John le Botiller of Lanultit, Robert de Aston, and Adam 

Holnaked, the King's justices, to try the following: — William de Masinton, John Revel. Thomas de Wychyndon, Chaplain, 

Walter le Pevre of Ros, John le Fevre of Hereford. Thomas le Kew of la Lee, Walter Karles. William de Braynton. Master 

Thomas de Orleton, Master John de Orleton, and Thomas dc Gynes’. 

The Charter Rolls record that John son of William Revell received a grant of ‘free warren’ at Newbold Revell in 1327, exactly 

as his father had in 1299, 13 suggesting that his father was dead by that date. 

At some uncertain date in the period 1324 to 1340 John Revel is recorded as making a plea, as follows: 14 

‘John Revel complains that Robert de Ernesforde and his sons Robert, Richard, Simon and John, convicted of trespass at his 

suit, have been released on mainprise by the Marshal, although mainprise should not be allowed in such a case, delaying the 

King from his redemptions, and John from his damages. He requests compensation for this, and that they should not be released 

on mainprise again’. 

Endorsement: He is to complain before the King's justices when the court is open. 

On October 6 th 1325 he is recorded as making a gift: 15 

‘Gift from Sir John Revel to Sir John ?Wreet of lands and tenements in Essenhull' and Prensthorpe [Princethorpe]. 

Witnesses: Sir Robert Vardon', knight, Sir John ---, knight, --- de Astlegh, Guy ?Wredon', Robert Randolf and others’. 

In the IPM for John de Hastanges, dated 1325, John Revel is recorded as holding a half fee at Brownsover, 16 and according to 

the Victoria County History is recorded in the 1327 subsidy list for ‘Newbolde and Strettone’. 17 

5 Essex : highways, byways and waterways : second series page 2 http://archive.org/stream/highwaysessex00barrrich#page/2/mode/2up 

6 BHOL Feet of Fines http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57122 

7 A4787 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64326 


9 Patent Rolls page 199 http://archive.org/stream/calendarofpaten04grea#page/198/mode/2up 

10 ‘The Origins of the English Gentry’, page 285 By Peter R. Coss, Contributor Lyndal Roper Published by Cambridge University Press, 2003 

ISBN 052182673X, 9780521826730 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lWLHPu- 

R_RgC&pg=PA177&lpg=PA177&dq=ryvel+knight&source=web&ots=OWcujLu2Ug&sig=WC_wDB2JAWdMSLUJ92CKIEg- 

P_g&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result 

11 The register of Adam de Orleton http://www.archive.org/stream/registeradamdeo00socigoog#page/n40/mode/1up/search/revel 

12 Patent Rolls page 452 http://archive.org/stream/calendarofpaten04grea#page/452/mode/2up 

13 BHOL Charter Rolls http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57122 

14 SC 8/69/3435 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=7&CATID=- 

4367549&SearchInit=4&CATREF=SC+8%2F69%2F3435 

15 DR10/501 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=188-dr10_1-2&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 

16 Calendar of Inquisitions http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924099427845#page/n431/mode/2up/search/ryvel 

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On July 12 th 1331, ‘John Ryvel, dominus et miles’ is a witness to a gift in fee simple referring to land at Cliffe [Clyve], near 

Kingsbury, in Warwickshire. 18 On June 20 th 1333 The Close Rolls record his appointment as a collector of customs for 

Warwickshire, 19 and on October 12 th 1333 the Patent Rolls commission him to an ‘oyer and terminer’, as follows: 20 

‘The like to John de Stonore, John Ryvel, and John de Peyto the elder, on complaint by John de Pulteneye that Master Thomas 

Broun, Roger and Andrew his brothers, Adam de Napton, Walter Assheby of Lobbenbam, Roger Togh find others carried away 

his goods and assaulted his servants at Mynsterton, co. Leicester. By p.s. 

The like, touching an assault by these persons upon Thomas de Pulteneye at the same place’. 

There is a similar commission dated August 15 th 1344, as follows: 

‘Commission of oyer and terminer to Thomas de Bello Campo, earl of Warwick, Ralph, baron of Stafford, Peter de Monte Forti, 

Richard de Whytacre, John Ryvel, John de Peyto le fitz' and John de Lee, touching the armed disturbers of the peace who lately 

in large numbers entered the manor of the abbot of Evesham of Wythele, co. Warwick, killed many of his men there, mutilated 

some and atrociously wounded others, and carried away his goods, and who still maintain themselves by force in the manor, 

consuming the crops and other profits thereof from day to day, and perpetrate many other misdeeds in contempt of the king and 

to the most grievous damage of the abbot, whereat the king is very greatly moved and not without reason’. 

However, on July 16 th 1334 the Patent Rolls record ‘Exemption, for life, of John Ryvel from being put on assizes, juries or 

recognisances, and from appointment as mayor, sheriff, escheator, coroner or other bailiff or minister of the king, against his 

will. By p.s.’, 21 and yet on August 22 nd 1337 a John Ryvel, knight, is recorded in the Close Rolls as a witness to a grant signed 

in Westminster, 22 and on July 20 th 1344 the Patent Rolls list ‘John Ryvel, knight’, 23 with reference to a ‘Commission of the 

peace, pursuant to the statutes of Winchester and Northampton’. It is possible that the later commissions refer to his son of the 

same name. Dugdale comments that John Ryvel [the elder] was relieved of some further duties in 1338 / 9, some of which 

passed to a William Ryvel, presumably his son. 24 

The Gascon Rolls record that a John Ryvel, John Trymenel , Richard de Whitacre and Richard de Pecche are responsible in the 

period February to April 1338 / 9 for raising a substantial number of archers some of whom are to be led to Norwich. 25 On April 

8 th 1340 the Close Rolls record ‘John Ryvel, knight, admits indebtedness to Richard de Lambhethe and William de Lambhethe, 

citizens and fishmongers of London, to be levied co Warwick’, and this indebtedness is recorded as ‘Cancelled on payment’. 26 

The exact nature of the indebtedness is not stated but might be connected to the London property that his son John Revell refers 

to in his will, see below. 

According to BHOL Richard de Lambhethe married Christina de Hackeneye and her father Richard de Hackeneye is godfather 

to their son William de Lambhethe. Richard de Hackeneye died in 1342 and was buried at St Mary atte Hill, London, 27 a 

location associated with the Revells, from at least 1431, 28 see Part 3. 

BHOL records that in 1341 John Daysie of Street Ashton gave a mill in Pailton (one mile east of Newbold Revell) to Sir John 

Revel, 29 and in 1344 ‘William, son of Sir Robert de Thorp, …… received licence to alienate the manor of Brinklow in mortmain 

to the Abbot and convent of Combe, the yearly value being stated as 66s. 8d., (fn. 29) less a water-mill and pond in the tenancy 

of Sir John Ryvel, Elizabeth his wife, and John[Ryvel] his son, of which the remainder was to the abbey on Sir John's death. 

(fn. 30)’. 30 

Sir John Rynel is recorded as a witness on July 5 th 1343 to a gift made by ‘William de Clynton, earl of Huntingdon’, 31 and to a 

grant by ‘Alice, late the wife of Giles de Asteleye’ in January 1345 / 6, 32 but is dead by 1347 as follows from a deed dated April 

6 th that year: 

17 Victoria History of the County of Warwick page 336 http://archive.org/stream/victoriahistoryo00doubuoft#page/336/mode/2up 

18 Mi D 3970/2 http://msscat.nottingham.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=% 

28%28text%29%3D%27ryvel%27%29 

19 Calendar of the Close Rolls page 61. http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarclosero03offigoog#page/n858/mode/1up 

20 Patent Rolls page 502 http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/e3v2/body/Edward3vol2page0502.pdf 

21 Patent Rolls page 564 http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarpatentr17offigoog#page/n577/mode/2up 

22 Calendar of the Close Rolls page 245 http://archive.org/stream/cu31924091767883#page/n255/mode/2up 

23 Patent Rolls pages 393– 396 http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/e3v6/body/Edward3vol6page0396.pdf 

24 The Antiquities of Warwickshire page 143 by Dugdale http://www.archive.org/stream/antiquitiesofwar00dugd#page/142/mode/2up 

25 Gascon Rolls http://www.gasconrolls.org/search/?kw=ryvell 

26 Calendar of the Close Rolls http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarclosero04offigoog#page/n475/mode/1up 

27 Calendar of Wills http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66879 

28 ‘The medieval records of a London City church’ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=65690 

29 A History of the County of Warwick Volume 6 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57122 


31 D1086/T103/2 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=040-d1086&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 

32 A. 12138. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64444&strquery=ryvel 

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‘Agreement between the Abbot of Combe on the one part and Elizabeth widow of Sir John Revel, knight, and John their son on 

the other part, acknowledging that Sir William de Thorp, knight, conveyed by fine to the predecessor of the said abbot the 

reversion of the profits of a mill and pool, of 20 acres of meadow and 10 acres of pasture with appurtenances in Brynkkelowe 

after the death of the said Elizabeth [Revel] and John [Revel], reserving to them during their lives all their right and interest in 

the said premises as leased to them by the said Sir William, as freely as Aubrey de Witlebur' or any of his ancestors enjoyed the 

same. Witnesses: Sir Nicholas de Colshull', Laurence de Colshull', John Freland, Adam Gyeys, Adam de Kybworth', Richard de 

Leycestre and others’. 33 

Note, however, that Dugdale has him living until at least 1352, but this probably stems from confusion with his son of the same 

name. 34 

Consistent with 1347 being the year of his death is a document dated 1350,’ Grant of a licence from John Ryvel, son and heir of 

Sir John Ryvel, knight, and Roger de Wassingleye, Lord of Wappenbur' to 'sir' Thomas de Woluardinton, parson of the church 

of Lolenham, and his assigns, that he may give and assign to 2 chaplains, for himself and his soul, and for the souls of Peter de 

Woluardinton and Aline, his wife, and their sons, and all the dead faithful, in the Chapel of All Souls at Stretton on Dunnesmor, 

at the altar of St. Thomas the Martyr, to be celebrated every day forever, 1 messuage and its appurtenances in Stretton: to hold 

to the 2 chaplains and their successors forever. John, Roger, and their heirs disclaim all right to it. Witnesses: John de 

Odingeseles, John de Verdon, knight, William de Sucton of Draicote, Thomas Breton, John Sparri, John de Hookeleye, William 

Payn, John de Esunhull and Thomas Rondulf, and others. Given at Neubolde near Kyrkeby, Tuesday in the week after the 

Nativity of our Lord on the feast of St. Thomas the Martyr, 23 Edward III.; Seal: missing; tag.; Endorsed: Revell(?)’. 35, 

The seals of a John Revell and his wife Elizabeth, dated to 1347, and probably referring to this couple, are listed in the 

‘Catalogue of Heraldic Seals’. 36 His arms are described as ‘bore, ermine’ a chevron gules, a bordure engrailed sable’ whereas 

those of his father Sir William are ‘differenced by a mullet or on the chevron’ in the Ashmole Roll of Edward III. 37 John Revell 

married Elizabeth and had at least six children, three sons and three daughters. All three sons died without issue, possibly in the 

1380s, 38 but certainly by 1406. 

33 DR10/69 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=188-dr10_1-1&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 

34 The Antiquities of Warwickshire page143 by Dugdale http://www.archive.org/stream/antiquitiesofwar00dugd#page/142/mode/2up 


36 ‘Catalogue of Heraldic Seals’ http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofseals03brit 

37 ‘Some Feudal Coats of Arms’ http://www.archive.org/stream/somefedualcoatso00fostuoft#page/166/mode/2up/search/revel 

38 The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory’ By Peter John Christopher Field 

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=92zxNMHuUKcC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&dq=revell+balsall&source=web&ots=_Tl_bhfG0q&sig=KKHoPs3 

PpYSyZ23O4JwP7raI-WI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA42,M1 

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The sons of Sir John Revell, senior 

Three sons of John Revell, senior, grandsons of William of Newbold, are clearly documented. However, pedigrees 170 and 

174 in Hunters Familiae Minorum Gentium, available on Rotherham Web are suspect, at least in the early part showing the 

supposed descent from William of Newbold Revell to Thomas of Higham. Pedigree 174 shows William as having a third son 

Simon Revell as the immediate ancestor of Thomas of Higham. Pedigree 170 shows a Simon Revell as the second son of 

John Revell (senior), and another Simon Revell in the next generation as a brother to Thomas of Higham. The limited 

evidence recently found for a Simon Revell is discussed below but the dates for which he is recorded are not consistent with him 

being a third son of William of Newbold. 

Nicholas Revell, extant ?–1331–1351–1373–? 

John’s son Nicholas Revell entered the Church. On November 16 th 1351 at Henley-in-Arden ‘Dominus Nicholas Ryvell, parson 

…’ made a quitclaim to ‘Dominus William Ryvell all claims to all their lands and tenements which they hold from the gift and 

feoffment of the said dominus Sir William Ryvell’. 39 

The identity of the Sir William Ryvell is uncertain, but possibly Nicholas’s brother, see below, or the poorly documented 

William Revell shown by Dugdale as either the father or son of William Revell of Buckeby who married Ellen — see below 

and Table 2. 

On August 1 st 1353 ‘Nicholas Ryvel, Dominus’ witnessed a gift relating to a gift of property at various locations around 

Coventry. 40 

On November 10 th 1356, a grant of rent records: ‘Grant to dominus Sir John de Bracebrugge by dominus Nicholas Rynel clerk, 

dominus Thomas Basse vicar of Kingsbury church and John le Lee of £200 annual rent from the manor of Kingsbury with which 

they were jointly enfeoffed with all its appurtenances in perpetuity by the said John. Annual rent to be paid in equal portions if in 

arrears in part or wholly it will be lawful for the said John and his heirs to enter and retain in the said manor in perpetuity 

without contradiction by the said Nicholas, Thomas and John and their heirs, notwithstanding the enfeoffment by the said 

John’. 41 

In 1357 he is described in the Papal Register as ‘rector of Cleycotny, in the diocese of Lincoln’, probably Cleyorton. 42 On 

December 19 th 1361 a quitclaim records: ‘Nicholas Rivel parson of Cleycotes church and dominus of Newbold Revel and 

Thomas Basse vicar of Kingsbury church release for themselves and their heirs to Sir John de Bracebrugge dominus of 

Kingsbury all claims that they have in the manor of Kingsbury’. 43 

According to BHOL, ‘In 1363 Nicholas Rivell, priest, obtained papal licence to found a house of Austin Friars at Coventry, (fn. 

1) but for some reason, possibly local opposition, the project was abandoned’. 44 

In March 1364 / 5 it is recorded that ‘The Bishop conferred the Hospital or Chapel of S. Nicholas of Namptwych , the collation 

of which had devolved to him by lapse of six months, upon Nicholas Rivell, priest’, 45 but this might not be the same individual. 

About 1366 Nicholas Revel was made a Papal Chaplain, as follows.’ To Nicholas Reuel or Revel, M.A. rector of Cleycot 

(Claycoton), in the diocese of Lincoln. Conferring the dignity of papal chaplain upon him’. 46 He is mentioned in a charter, 47 

grant 48 and demise 49 referring to property in Coventry, all dated July 7 th 1370, as follows: 

‘From Thomas Langhurst and his wife Margaret to Nicholas Ryvel (clerk), William Suwet and Richard de Blaby (chaplains) 

and William le Clerc of Offchurch of BA/B/A/99/3's property, once William Erneys’. 

39 Mi D 4033 http://msscat.nottingham.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=% 

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42 Regesta http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=96332 


28%28text%29%3D%27rivel%27%29 

44 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=36486 

45 ‘Collections for a History of Staffordshire Vol 10’ http://www.archive.org/stream/newcollectionsforpt210stafuoft#page/166/mode/2up 

46 ‘Regesta 256: 1366-1367', Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 4: 1362-1404 (1902)’ http://www.britishhistory.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=96373&strquery 

47 BA/B/1/99/5 http://www.coventrycollections.org/collections/?id=COVHC_BA_B_1_99_5&title=Charter 

48 BA/B/1/99/6 http://www.coventrycollections.org/collections/?id=COVHC_BA_B_1_99_6&title=Grant 

49 BA/B/1/99/8 http://www.coventrycollections.org/collections/?id=COVHC_BA_B_1_99_8&title=Demise 

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‘By Thomas Langhurst and his wife Margaret to Nicholas Ryvel (clerk), William Suwet and Richard de Blaby (chaplains) and 

William le Clerc of Offchurch of all goods in BA/B/A/99/3's premises’. 

‘By Nicholas Ryvel et al (described as in BA/B/A/99/5) to Thomas Langhurst and his wife Margaret of BA/B/A/99/5's property, 

paying 4d. per annum with remainder to any child that the Langhursts might produce’. 

In 1371, Nicholas confirmed the gift made in 1352 by his brother Sir John of land at Ovingdean to Thomas Mutson, 50 and is 

described as brother and heir of Sir John Ryvel of Newbold Revel. 

In 1372, the Close Rolls contain two charters, as follows: 51 

‘Charter of Nicholas Revel lord of Fennyneubolde, giving with warranty to Richard Gode his servant, his heirs and assigns 

and the assigns of his assigns, one great croft called Raldewynnscroft and 2^ acres of arable land in Stretton by Monks Kirkeby, 

one acre thereof lying in a selion called Thurghlond upon Derwellefurlong between lands sometime of Thomas Boydon and 

William Pilet, and 1 1 acre in the same cultura in three selions lying together between lands late of Thomas Koc and John Bagot 

abutting on the fosse {inte fosse); also 2| acres and 6 butts of land with headlands (chevettis) of meadow and appurtenances in 

Fenny'neubolde, one acre lying upon Longelond by land of Richard le Reve, one acre with headland of meadow upon the same 

cultura by land of the said Richard le Reve, half an acre of land upon Littulhulle, by land of the said Nicholas, and the said six 

butts with headlands of meadow upon Bouerbuttes abutting on the (inte) Brynkelowedam, whereof three a\ ere late of William 

Brt)un and three late of Thomas Koccus (sic). Witnesses : George de Castello, Richard de Esenhulle, John Clerk of Stretton, 

Thomas Bagot, John Fraunkeleyn. Dated Fennyneubolde, Tuesday after St. Hilary 42 Edward III’. 

‘Charter of Nicholas Revel lord of Fennyneubolde, giving with warranty to Richard Gode his servant, his heirs and assigns 

and the assigns of his assigns, two messuages with appurtenances in the town of Stretton by Kirkeby, one lately held by Adam 

Yremongere the other by Roger Coke ; also 30 acres of land and 2 acres of meadow in the said town, whereof 8 acres were 

sometime held by William Smyth, 12 acres by William de Swyneford and 10 acres by Roger Coke, and the 2 acres of meadow lie 

in Stretton Moor ; also 5 acres and 3 butts of land with a meadow called the Hemslade in the fields of Fennyneubolde and 

Stretton wliicli John Revel father of the said Nicholas lately had of the gift and feoffment of Henry Russell of Coventre, whereof 

one acre lies upon Longelond by land of Thomas Cole, one half acre upon Luttelhulle by land of the said Nicholas, one half acre 

in Wybelcroft-slade by land of the said Nicholas on either side, 3 butts upon Boueres-buttes extending to the (inte) 

Brynkelowedam, one acre upon Fosse- furlong by land of Thomas Boydyn, one acre upon Hiderholoulowe by land of Thomas 

Bagot, and 4 roods upon Hauthom furlong by land of Robert Gibbe. Witnesses and date (as the last)’. 

It is suggested that Nicholas Revel, Rector of Cleyorton, died in 1383, 52 but this has not been proven. It is not known what 

property he held or to whom it descended. 

William Revell, son of Sir John Revell, senior, extant ?–1326–1346–1373 

Sir John Revell senior is said to have had a son William Revell who is comparatively poorly documented, there being no 

primary references that unequivocally identify him. His date of birth and death are not certainly known, but he is said to have 

died without issue. 

It is said by Gladwyn Turbutt in his History of Ogston that this William Revell succeeded John Revell as ‘a receiver of the 15 

and 10 granted to the King in Parliament’ and he is generally assumed to be his son and that he died about 1373. 53 . 

The earliest record located that is likely to be referring to this individual is a gift in fee simple dated February 2 nd 1345 / 6 of 

property at Henley in the parish of Foleshill that reads ‘William de Neuton rector of Seagrave church and dominus William de 

Walton enfeoff William Revel and his heirs with all their lands and tenements and all rents, reversions and service with 

appurtenances in the vills of Henley, Foleshill, Okeleshale, Byggyng, Stoke, Wyken, Sowe, Whitley, Harnall, Melton Mowbray, 

Northpydale and Bukton, namely all that they hold from the gift of Stephen de Seagrave’. 54 

While the foregoing record does not unequivocally define this William Revell, what must surely be the same individual is 

referred to explicitly on November 16 th 1351 as Dominus William Revell in connection with a Dominus Nicholas Revell, as 

follows; ‘Dominus Nicholas Ryvell parson of ? church, dominus William de Walton ? of Newbold on Avon church and John 

Whitwelle release and for themselves and their heirs quitclaim forever to dominus William Ryvell all claims to all their lands 

50 A History of the County of Sussex Volume 7 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56956 

51 Close Rolls 

52 http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/revill/warwick.htm 

53 ‘The History of Ogston’ by Gladwyn Turbutt 

54 Mi D 4031 http://msscat.nottingham.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=10&dsqSearch= 

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and tenements which they hold from the gift and feoffment of the said dominus Sir William Ryvell’. 55 

Nicholas Revell and William Revell are brothers. 

It is almost certain that 

It is generally accepted that it was this William Revell who was ‘of the retinue of Thomas, Bishop of Durheme’ in the ‘French 

expedition’ of 1346, 56, 57 i.e. the Battle of Crécy on August 26 th 1346, when Thomas Hatfield the Bishop of Durham led the 

rearguard. 

The records of the City of Southampton contain a list as follows: ‘Nomina Militum bominum ad arma et sagittariorum in 

Comitia Thome de Bello Campo Comitis Warrewyk super salvam custodiam ville Suhampton. A xxv to Juiii anno xiij vsque xxv. 

diem Augusti proxime sequentem per xxxij dies, utroque die computato’, 58 = ‘Names of the men-at-arms and bowmen from the 

assembly of Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwick guarding the town of Southampton through 32 days from July 25 th to August 

25 th ’. (This is my translation from Latin and not necessarily perfect). Included in the list is a ‘Willelmus Ryuel’. The same 

record appears in the French Rolls’. 59 

It is likely that it is this William Revell who is named in the IPM for John de Hastanges, Earl of Pembroke in 1376 as holding ‘a 

moiety of a fee at Brownsover’, 60 previously held by his putative father John Revell in 1325. 61 

In 1391 / 2 there are several references to a John Ryuell and his wife Joan, formerly the wife of William Boole (Bole) of 

Southampton, 62 (merchant who represented Southampton in Parliament in 1378 and 1385) 63 but the connection, if any, is 

obscure. It has not been possible to locate any other certain references to them but a John Ryall was appointed to the priory of 

St Denys on December 6 th 1397 and died shortly before April 20 th 1412 when his successor was appointed. 64 

Sir John Revell, junior, extant ?–1298–1325-1359–? 

The dates of birth and death for Sir John’s son John Revell, who inherited the title, are uncertain, but he was born no later than 

ca 1305 because he is recorded in the IPM for John de Hastinges as holding half a knight’s fee at Brownsover in 1325, 65 and he 

lived to at least 1359. 

The Inquisition held in 1358 to determine the age of ‘John de Odyngsels son of John de Odyngsels’ includes a statement ‘John 

Rivel, aged 60 years, says that the said John de Odyngsels was 21 years of age on the Nativity of the Blessed Mary last, because 

he was born in Ichynton on that feast, 10 Edward III, and baptised in the church there. John Rivel knows this because he 

married Margery his wife on the morrow of that day’. 66 Ages stated in IPMs are known not necessarily to be precise, but a birth 

in 1298 is plausible. 

If the IPM is correct then he married Margaret on September 9 th 1337 but her maiden name is uncertain. Alastair Revell 

suggests that she might belong to the Odingsells. 67 

It is difficult to distinguish records referring to the father from those referring to the son, but Sir John Revell, senior, was dead 

by 1347 and it must be his son John Ryvel who on September 5 th 1350 is named as one of two guarantors for William Chaunon 

in connection with the dues to be paid for Monks Kirkeby Priory. 68 

55 Mi D 4033 http://msscat.nottingham.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=11&dsqSearch= 

%28%28text%29%3D%27%20revel%27%29 

56 Historical Narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye Families’ 

HTTP://WWW.ARCHIVE.ORG/SEARCH.PHP?QUERY=MEDIATYPE%3ATEXTS%20AND%20COLLECTION%3ABLC%20AND%20SUBJECT%3A%22STACY 

%20FAMILY%22 

57 French Roll page 85 http://www.archive.org/stream/collectionsforhi18stafuoft#page/100/mode/2up/search/revel and 

http://www.archive.org/stream/collectionsforhi18stafuoft#page/84/mode/2up/search/revel 

58 The manuscripts of the Corporations of Southampton and kings Lynn http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67100 

59 Historical Narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye Families’ 

HTTP://WWW.ARCHIVE.ORG/SEARCH.PHP?QUERY=MEDIATYPE%3ATEXTS%20AND%20COLLECTION%3ABLC%20AND%20SUBJECT%3A%22STACY 

%20FAMILY%22 

60 CIPM Volume 14 page 159 

http://proxify.com/p/011010A1000100/687474703a2f2f626162656c2e686174686974727573742e6f72672f6367692f70743f69643d77752e383 

93039353737303930353b766965773d696d6167653b7365713d3138373b71313d726576656c3b73746172743d313b73697a653d31303b706 

167653d7365617263683b6e756d3d313539 

61 Inquisitions Post Mortem http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924099427845#page/n431/mode/2up/search/ryvel 

62 The Black Book of Southampton http://www.archive.org/stream/theblackbook01soutuoft#page/28/mode/2up 

63 A History of Southampton http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofsoutham00daviuoft#page/200/mode/2up/search/bole 

64 A History of Southampton http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofsoutham00daviuoft#page/440/mode/2up 

65 Inquisitions Post Mortem http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924099427845#page/n431/mode/2up/search/ryvel 




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It must be this John Revell, as distinct from his father, who is recorded as holding one part of two knights’ fees of the Manor of 

Wappenbury by 1349. 69 The IPM for the Earl of Kent records in 1353 for Wappenbury and Fenny Neubold that ‘two knights 

fees were held by Roger de Wappenbury and the heir of Richard de Beyville and John Revel’. 70 

John Revell, junior, is recorded as a witness in 1353 / 4, 71, 72 and named in the Fine Rolls as a collector of subsidy for 

Warwickshire who relinquished the role in February 1353 / 4. 73 

A John Ryvel, chivaler’ is mentioned along with a ‘William Ryvel, chivaler’ in a complaint by Ralph son of Ralph Basset of 

Drayton on May 20 th 1355. 74 

‘Commission of oyer and terminer to Ralph, earl of Stafford,Westminster. William de Shareshull, Roger Hillary, Henry Grene, 

Hugh de Meignill and Roger de Hepwell, on complaint by Ralph son of Ralph Basset of Dray ton that Baldwin de Fryvill, ' 

chivaler,' Fulk de Birmyngham, ' chivaler,' William Ryvel, ' chivaler,' John Ryvel,* chivaler,' John Mounfort, ' chivaler,' 

William de Conesby, ' chivaler,' John le Clerk, John de Bracebrigge, Baldwin de Whiteneys, clerk, John de Whiteneye, Walter 

Holdeto, chaplain, William le Harpour, Richard Where, John le Coke, Geoffrey Leek, William Leek, John de Shepheye, * 

corveyser,' Richard le Cook, Robert Bisshop and others, at divers times, carried away his goods at Tamworth, Middelton and 

Wilmyncote, in the counties of Stafford and Warwick, and assaulted his men and servants. For 30s. paid in the hanaper’. 

It is not known when Sir John Revell junior’s wife Margaret died, but it seems certain that he married second Joan Deincourt 

thus possibly acquiring the first Revell lands in Derbyshire. 

An account in ‘History of Nottinghamshire’, by Robert Thoroton, reads: 75 

‘John de Aslacton was impleaded by Roger de Langford Junior, and Alice his wife, and John Ryvell, Chr and Joan his wife, 

daughters and heirs of Roger Deyncourt, for violently ejecting them from the custody of the Land and Heir of John de Aslockton, 

being then underage; which John died, being seised of 100 acres of Land, forty of meadow, and the third part of the Manor of 

Aslockton, which he held of the said Roger Deyncourt , by Knight’s service, viz. by Homage and Scutage, for a Knight’s fee, 

whereupon the jury gave them £20 damage, and they desired execution and they had it. This heir, then in minority, was William 

it seems, whose daughter and heir, Isabel (de Aslockton, father William, grandfather John), was married to Edmund Cranmer 

(son of Thomas, grandson of Hugo), and to that Manor of Aslockton’. 

A more detailed account taken from the Plea Rolls is given in ‘Collections for a History of Staffordshire’ published in 1891, 76 as 

follows: 

‘John de Aslacton, parson of the Church of Brigeford, was summoned at the suit of Nicholas de Longeford, the younger, and 

Alice, his wife, and John Ryvel, Chivaler, and Joan, his wife, the daughters and heirs of Roger Deyncourt, Chivaler, for forcibly 

ejecting the said Roger from the wardship of the land, and heir of John de Aslacton ; and the plaintiffs stated that the said John 

de Aslacton, held of Roger, the father of Alice and Joan, 100 acres of land and forty acres of meadow, in Aslacton, and the third 

part of the manor of Aslacton, by military service, and by the service of a Knight's fee, and died in the homage of the said Roger, 

and the said Roger was in peaceable seisin of the said tenements from the Feast of St. Michael, 24 E. Ill 1351, up to the Feast of 

the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 27 E. Ill 1354, when the said John de Aslacton, the parson (the heir being under age), had 

forcibly ejected the said Roger, and whilst a suit on the subject was proceeding in the King's Court, the said Roger had died, and 

the right of action had accrued to the said plaintiffs, as daughters and heirs of Roger under the Statute, and they claimed 100 as 

damages. 

John de Aslacton, the defendant, denied that John de Aslacton had died seised of the tenements, as stated by the defendants, 

because under the name of John, the eldest son of Sir Reginald de Aslacton, Knight, he had granted by his deed to him under the 

name of John de Aslacton, the parson, the third part of the manor of Aslacton, and all his lands and tenements, in Aslacton, and 

68 Fine Rolls Volume 6 page 254 

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72 CR162/195 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=187-cr162&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18 

73 Fine Rolls Volume 6 page 376 

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pid=IE98586&change_lng=en 

74 Patent Rolls Edward III, vol. 10, p. 237 

75 History of Nottinghamshire’ By Robert Thoroton 

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gz4uAAAAMAAJ&pg=PT285&lpg=PT285&dq=%22and+Alice+his+wife,+and+John+Ryvell,+Chr.,+and+J 

oan+his+wife%22&source=web&ots=fmusxt_1uU&sig=RmAP7HltkuirS88YaEMlOF8Pxqc&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result 

#PPT283,M1 

76 Collections for a History of Staffordshire http://www.archive.org/stream/collectionsforhi12stafuoft/collectionsforhi12stafuoft_djvu.txt 

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Thorlaston, which were not held of the lord of Watton, of the fee of Gaunt, to be held by him for his life, and he was in seisin of 

the tenements until the said Roger, claiming the custody of the lands had intruded himself into them and removed him, and he 

appealed to a jury which was to be summoned for the Quindene of St. Hillary. A postscript shews the process was continued till 

the Friday after the Feast of St. James the Apostle, 30 E. Ill, 1357 when it was heard at Nottingham, by writ of nisi prius, and a 

jury gave a verdict in favour of the plaintiffs ; but a writ from the King ordered the record and process to be returned coram 

Rege on the Morrow of St. Martin, 30 E. III. m. 44.’ 

This more detailed account accords with other independent sources suggesting that Thoroton’s account contains minor errors. It 

is recorded that Alice, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Roger Deincourt, married Sir Nicholas de Longford September 29 th 1346. 77 

The Deincourts were Barons of Morton, with which Manor Ogston and Higham were associated, at the time of the Domesday. 

Roger Deincourt claimed a Park at Morton in 1330, 78 was described as Roger Deincourt de Morton in 1332, 79 and was extant 

until at least 1339. 80, 81 As his daughters were described as heirs, the impleading described above must have occurred later than 

1339. A Sir Nicholas de Longeford and Margaret, his wife, were associated with the Manors of Penkeston (Pinxton) and 

Normanton (both in Derbyshire) in 1391. 82 

It is said that ‘The Revell family of South Normanton held Ogston in the 14th century by marriage to the Deincourt heiress.’ 

This claim is supported by a reference to page 666 of ‘A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain 

and Ireland’ Vol. 1 by John Burke (1835). This book is available electronically and page 666 refers to a much later marriage 

between the Revells and Turbutts with no obvious mention of the Deincourts, 83 and seems to be an erroneous citation for an 

event that might have been real. 

Accordingly, one can reasonably conclude that in the period 1354–1357 there was a John Revell whose wife was Joan 

Deincourt, sister to Alice and daughter of Roger who died between 1354 and 1357. According to a submitted record on the IGI 

Joan Deincourt (father Roger) was born about 1311 and married Robert de Neville about 1341 at Parkhall, Eckington, in 

Derbyshire. Robert died August 10 th 1353, 84 and presumably Joan married John Revell shortly thereafter. However, the 

suggested birth in 1311 is based on her father’s supposed birth (unconfirmed) in 1290, and the suggested 1325 is based on her 

being at least 16 years old when she married in 1341, and these dates should be treated with caution. 

About 1359 / 60 there is a reference in the Calendar of Wills to the will of a John Ryvel, knt who refers to his wife Joan Revell 

and property in London , as follows ‘…And in case Johanna his wife be enceinte, and the infant be a male, he gives her his hostel 

in London in fee; and if the infant be a female, the said hostel is to be sold for the said infant's marriage; and if there be no 

85, 86 

infant his wife is to enjoy the same for life; remainder to pious uses’. This will is dated April 25 th but the year is not stated. 

It was proved 1361 / 2. The location of this property is not known, but it is possible that his father’s indebtedness to ‘Richard de 

Lambhethe and William de Lambhethe, citizens and fishmongers of London’ subsequently cancelled on payment, recorded in the 

Close Rolls on April 8 th 1340 is connected to the property in London. 87 

Note that Gladwyn Turbutt believes that this marriage between a Sir John Revell and Joan Deincourt is how the Warwickshire 

Revells first acquired land in Derbyshire, and suggests that it was the second marriage of Sir John Revell senior. 88 However, 

this John died in 1347 and it must surely be his son. 

There are very few records of the Revells in Nottinghamshire in the 14 th century, but there is a reference in 1380 to a Richard 

Revell (Rinnel) in connection with land near Newark-on-Trent quitclaimed to him and William Rowthorn(e) by William 

Asballok and his wife Denise. 89 Newark is ca 11 miles from Aslockton. 

History records that Sir John Revell junior died without issue, and if he did indeed hold any land in Derbyshire either he or 

Joan must have transferred the Derbyshire property to a Revell relative. As explained below, a plausible route would have been 

via John’s eldest sister, Margaret, who might have survived his brothers who, in any case, also died without issue. 

77 ‘Magna Carta Ancestry’ By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham 

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wHZcIRMhSEMC&pg=PA516&lpg=PA516&dq=%22roger+deincourt%22&source=web&ots=2DydDu- 

F1M&sig=CtVqFHbXazGQ2AC5cLocdQrAIFA&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result#PPA516,M1 

78 http://www.acesse.com/cache.php?id=6205216&q=henry%20earl 

79 ‘Extracts (with notes) from the Pipe Rolls of the Counties of Nottingham and Derby’ by John Pym Yeatman. 

http://www.archive.org/stream/extractswithnote00yeat#page/98/mode/2up 

80 C 241/109/17 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=-5099679&CATLN=7&accessmethod=5&j=1 

81 DD/P/CD/122 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=157-ddpcd&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 

82 http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/revill/snormanton.htm 

83 ‘A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank; but 

univested with heritable honours (1835)’ http://www.archive.org/details/genealogicalheral01burk 

84 http://gen.cookancestry.com/getperson.php?personID=I17997&tree=1 

85 Calendar of Wills http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66902&strquery=ryvel 

86 Calendar of Wills http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofwillsp02lond#page/16/mode/2up 

87 Calendar of the Close Rolls http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarclosero04offigoog#page/n475/mode/1up 

88 ‘The History of Ogston’ by Gladwyn Turbutt 

89 CP 25/1/186/35, number 12. http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_186_35.shtml 

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The daughters of Sir John Revell, senior 

The identity of John’s three daughters (William of Newbold’s granddaughters) is less clear as there appear to be four 

contenders. The ‘fourth’ is described as Alice / Agnes and is probably a more distant relative, ‘invented’ to account for the 

observed descent of property that in fact passed by a more round-about route. 

Margaret Revell ?–1312–1371–? 

Margaret Revell, the first daughter and heir of Sir John Revell senior, married Sir Stephen Mallory who was extant and of age 

in 1308 when he witnessed a feoffment of property at Yelvertoft some four miles from Buckeby. 90 Stephen is usually described 

as ‘floreat 1332–1362’, and the marriage to Margaret Revell as probably about 1332. 91 They are the great grandparents of Sir 

Thomas Mallory who is thought to have written ‘Morte d’Arthur’. Margaret was recorded as a widow in 1371 when she married 

92, 93 

Robert Langham. If the date proposed for her marriage is correct then Margaret Revell was presumably born not later than 

ca 1312. 

As discussed below, Margaret’s son from her first marriage, Sir John Malory, married Alice Revell the daughter of a John 

Revell. 

Elena (Helen) Revell ?–1315–? 

The second daughter, Elena (Helen) Revell, is said to have been born at Newbold Revell about 1315. 94 She married in 1335 Sir 

Robert de Gresley (1306–1371) at Edingale (Edengale on the Derbyshire and Staffordshire border) after the death of his first 

wife Katherine née de Camville, 95, 96, 97 and brought with her the Manor of Brownsover. 98 They had at least two children — 

Robert de Gresley who died without issue and Joan de Gresley who married Richard Boteler before 1382. Their daughter 

Elizabeth Botiler married Ralph Bellers, 99 who is recorded in the grant dated March 25 th 1412 / 3 that incorrectly states the 

Revell–Bellers relationship as follows: ‘Gift with warranty from Ralph Bellers, esq. (Ralph Bellers’ ancestor Thomas married 

William Revel's daughter thus inheriting the manor of Brownsover….’. 100 Some pedigrees suggest that Elena Revell was Sir 

Robert de Gresley’s first wife. 101 

This marriage to de Gresley is intriguing as it is the earliest unequivocal record so far located for a Revell of Newbold Revell to 

move significantly north towards Derbyshire. Some trees on the web suggest that Elena (Helen) Revell was born at Gresley 

Castle about 1311 and that her father John Revell was born there in 1284, 102 but, this has not been substantiated, and is almost 

certainly incorrect. 

Robert de Gresley’s parents were associated with Drakelow, Egginton and Morton in Derbyshire, Morton being less than two 

miles from Higham and Ogston, and in 1357 Robert’s brother Roger de Gresley (1326–1392) 103 was active there as indicated by 

the following record. ‘Final concord between Alfreton de Sulny knight plaintiff by Roger de Gresley his attorney, and William, le 

Wyn deforciant, of the manors of Penkeston and Normanton near Blackwell with their advowsons, which Odo de Hodynet and 

Margery his wife held for her life’. 104 

In the period 1307–1327 Sir William Wyn held Brookhill Hall near Pinxton, and Roger-le-Wyn held the neighbouring manor of 

South Normanton from 1342. 105 One of Sir William’s daughters married Sir John Sulney and one part of this land descended 

through the Staffords (maternal ancestors of Robert de Gresley) to the Babbingtons, and then the Sheffields. John, Lord 

Sheffield sold this to George Revell, Esq. of Carnfield during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (born 1533, reigned 1558-1603). 106, 


91 ‘The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory’, By P. J. C. Field Published by Boydell & Brewer, 1993 ISBN 0859915662, 9780859915663 218 

pages. 

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=92zxNMHuUKcC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=%22stephen+Malory%22+revel&source=web&ots=_Tl_5gby 

Zr&sig=mWiO0ycWgTRqbd5CXj8DE0sneJE&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result 

92 ‘The Baronetage of England’, or, ‘The history of the English baronets, and such baronets of Scotland, as are of English families’ By William 

Betham 1802 Original from Oxford University Digitized 13 Nov 2007 page 48 

93 ‘The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory’, By P. J. C. Field Published by Boydell & Brewer, 1993 ISBN 0859915662, 9780859915663 218 

pages. 

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=92zxNMHuUKcC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=%22stephen+Malory%22+revel&source=web&ots=_Tl_5gby 

Zr&sig=mWiO0ycWgTRqbd5CXj8DE0sneJE&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result 

94 http://awt.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1034016&id=I66893&ti=5542 

95 http://wingetgenealogy.com/index.php 

96 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hwbradley/aqwg1399.htm#23541 

97 Madan, Falconer, The Gresleys of Drakelowe (Oxford: s.n., 1899.), p. 45, Family History Library, 929.242 G867m. 

98 http://awt.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1034016&id=I66893&ti=5542 

99 ‘Collections for the History of Stafffordshire’ http://www.archive.org/stream/collectionsforhi01staf#page/46/mode/2up 

100 CR162/65 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=187-cr162&cid=1-2-7-6- 

16&kw=revel%20revell%20ryvel%20ryvell%20bellers#1-2-7-6-16 

101 Collections for a History of Staffordshire http://www.archive.org/stream/collectionsforhi01staf#page/224/mode/2up 

102 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=fernery&id=I05928 

103 Collections for a History of Staffordshire http://www.archive.org/stream/collectionsforhi01staf#page/224/mode/2up 

104 D37 M/RT1 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=026-d37&cid=-1#-1 

105 http://www.southnormanton.com/history.html 

106 Magna Britannia Volume 5 Derbyshire http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50733 

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107 These events, therefore, do not as some have suggested necessarily relate to the first arrival of the Revells in Derbyshire, 

merely to their involvement at Pinxton. 

Joan Revell ?–?–? 

The third daughter was Joan Revell who married Robert de Whitney and inherited the Manor of Clifton. 108 

known. 

Nothing more is 

Alice / Agnes Revell ?–1371–1391–? 

There are several references to an Alice Revell, the supposed fourth daughter, as follows. 

‘Alice, Margaret [Revell]’s sister, married Sir John Malory of Winwick, Northamptonshire, and inherited the Manor of Newbold 

Revell. In 1391 Alice and Sir John settled it on themselves in tail’. 109 A footnote comments ‘In the tabular pedigree on the same 

page Dugdale makes the daughter Margaret and her husband Sir Stephen, but apparently in error’, and Feet of Fines is cited for 

the 1391 entailment. 

‘John Revell and his brothers dying without heirs, and a partition of his estate being made, the son of the said John Malory and 

Alice Revell had assigned him the Manor of Fenny Newbold …’ 110 This John Malory who married Alice had a son John Mallory 

(high sheriff) who married Philippa, and they were the parents of Sir Thomas Malory who it is said wrote Morte d’Arthur. This 

Sir Thomas Mallory was born in the perod 1400 to 1410, and died 1471. His father died 1434. 111 

With regard to Sir Thomas Malory, the DNB states ‘He seems to have been the son of Sir John Malorie by Alice, daughter of 

John Revell…’, 112 an account that misses out John Malory who married Philippa, quite possibly as a consequence of confusing 

consecutive John Malorys. 

A Joh. Malory, supposedly an ancestor of Sir Thomas Malory, is resident at Erll Street, Coventry, in 1424, 113 when he is 

recorded as contributing 1s-0d to Gloucester’s Loan. A Joh Ryvell, Richard Ryvell and a Joanna Attilborugh of Erll Street also 

contributed 1s-8d, 1s-0d and 3s-4d, respectively. John Malory is recorded as holding land in or near Earl Street in 1434. 114 

This Alice Revell is not shown in the pedigree of Malory and Revell in ‘The History and Antiquities of Leicestershire’, 115 but the 

subsequent history of Malory in this pedigree matches that published in BHOL 116 suggesting that the marriage of Sir John 

Mallory (son of Stephen Malory and Margaret Revell) and Agnes might be equivalent to the marriage of Sir John Mallory and 

Alice referred to above. Alice’s husband is documented in the period 1363 to 1391, but her origin and the identity of her father, 

John Revell, remains unclear. There is no independent evidence to suggest that she was a daughter of Sir John Revell senior, 

and as Sir John Revell junior died without issue, it seems that he also can be eliminated as the father. However, there are 

several John Revells who are associated with Earl Street and probably one of these was her father. Alice’s date of birth is not 

known, but must be no later than 1371, and possibly earlier. Such a date of birth would suggest that her father might be John 

Revell of Buckeby son of William and Ellen. 

It is clear from BHOL that John Malory and Alice née Revell inherited the manor of Newbold Revel and that in 1391 they 

settled it on themselves in tail. The assumption made by BHOL and other researchers has been that it was Alice Revell who 

inherited in her own right, implying a close relationship (such as daughter) to Sir John Revell senior. In reality it was probably 

Margaret Revell (daughter of Sir John Revell senior) and her husband Sir Stephen Malory who inherited Newbold Revel and 

presumably passed it to their son John Malory who married Alice Revell. It is possible that any Deincourt lands in Derbyshire 

acquired by Sir John Revell, junior’s second marriage were passed down by a similar indirect route. A similarly confusing de 

Burnaby–Revell / Malory connection is discussed below. 

107 ‘Historical Narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye Families’ 

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3Atexts%20AND%20collection%3Ablc%20AND%20subject%3A%22Stacy%20Family 

%22 



110 Book of King Arthur and his noble Knights http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=W- 

dMPjv3KBoC&pg=PR10&lpg=PR10&dq=%22alice+revell%22+malory+OR+mallory&source=bl&ots=JngkhjkARR&sig=_b6LHj27JTjo- 

PM1ppseika5DTY&hl=en&ei=75fsScLUO8WfjAeQooSbCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 

111 http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/3848/Malory-Sir-Thomas-140-1471.html 

112Dictionary of National Biography, Errata’ http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofnati00stepuoft#page/190/mode/2up/search/revel 

113 Coventry Leet Book http://www.archive.org/stream/coventryleetboo00unkngoog#page/n104/mode/1up/search/malory 

114 BA/B/16/156/1 http://www.coventrycollections.org/collections/?id=COVHC_BA_B_16_156_1&title=Demise 

115 http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/revill/mallory.htm 


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Robert Revell of Bukkeby, first son of William Revell of Newbold. Extant 1270–1286–1314–1340–? 

Although his date of birth is uncertain, as the elder son of William of Newbold, Robert Revell of Bukkeby must have been 

born ca 1270. However, the earliest unequivocal reference to this Robert Revell is dated only to the reign of Edward II, 

i.e.1307–1327, as follows: 

‘Grant by William Revel of Fenni Neubold, to Robert Revel his son, in tail, of his manor of Bukkeby, with all his lands &c. in 

Bukkeby, with remainder to John Revel, Robert's brother, and reversion to the grantor’. 117 For all William Revell, his father, is 

so strongly associated with Newbold Revell it is interesting to note that his elder son and heir is given the property in 

Northamptonshire longer associated with the family. 

This grant was probably dated ca 1316, the date at which a similar grant was made by William of Newbold to his younger son, 

John Revell — see above. 

Humphery-Smith referring to Robert Revell’s Inquisition Post Mortem asserts that Robert was born 1287 but does not provide 

proof, and this seems to be a case of misidentifying his father, as discussed in Part 1. BHOL records that Robert Revell, or 

Ryvell, married Alice the daughter of Joan de Wappenbury, and thus he inherited one third of the manor of Wappenbury, 118 but 

as discussed in Part 1, this is almost certainly not the case. This Robert Revell’s wife has not been identified. 

These erroneous statements reflect the fact that this Robert Revell is very poorly documented compared with his younger 

brother, but almost certainly he is the individual named on June 3 rd 1319 in an ‘oyer and terminer’ along with his brother John 

Revell , 119 as discussed above. 

There is a risk of Robert Revell, son of William, being confused early in his life with Robert of Tiffield, son of Hugh, who 

lived to at least 1280 but was dead by 1294, see Part 1, and later in his life with a rather nebulous Robert Revell, brother to 

Roger Revell associated with Watford, Northamptonshire, which location has been confused with the better known Watford, 

Hertfordshire. 

In 1324 there is an entry in Quorndon Records that ‘Robert Revel acknowledges he owes the King £20, to be levied in default of 

payment of his lands and chattels in co. Leycester’, 120 and the Close Rolls establish that in 1328 / 9 his land in Leicestershire and 

Rutland was confiscated, because of his involvement in Henry, earl of Lancaster's rebellion against Mortimer and Isabella, 121 and 

122, 123 

at least the land in Leicestershire reinstated after payment of a fine of £20. 

A Robert Ryvell is named in the Close Rolls in 1340 / 41 as a witness to a document that refers to land at Minsterton and 

Pulteneye, 124 and is probably this individual. Pulteneye is a lost village of Leicestershire. 

There is an important but potentially confusing ‘ancient deed’ dated 1314, as follows: 125 

‘Grant by Roger Rivel of Watford, to Robert [Rivel] his brother, for his life, of a cottage in Watford, and land there, part at 

Coppedemor, and part on Crosfurlong’, that BHOL ascribes tentatively to Watford in Hertfordshire. In fact reference in the 

grant to ‘Coppedmor’ establishes that this property is at Watford in Northamptonshire, approximately two miles north-west of 

Long Buckby. 

There is no evidence that William of Newbold had a son Roger Revell and therefore this cannot be referring to Robert Revell, 

son of William of Newbold. This Roger Revell is discussed below, but see also Part 1 and Table 1b. 

An obscure Roger Revell of Watford, brother of Robert, ?–1284–1304–1333–? Possibly associated with 

an obscure Thomas Revell 

Roger is not a forename commonly found amongst the Revells and they tend to be obscure individuals — see Part 1. The 

identity of this later Roger Revell is far from clear, but he and his brother are unequivocally referred to in an Ancient Deed dated 

1314, as follows: 126 

‘Grant by Roger Rivel of Watford, to Robert [Rivel] his brother, for his life, of a cottage in Watford, and land there, part at 

Coppedemor, and part on Crosfurlong’, that BHOL ascribes tentatively to Watford in Hertfordshire. In fact reference in the 

grant to ‘Coppedmor’ establishes that this property is at Watford in Northamptonshire, approximately two miles north-west of 


118 BHOL http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57139 


120 Quorndon Records http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924029786179/cu31924029786179_djvu.txt 

121 Close Rolls http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2FFHMedieval2&CISOPTR=49052&REC=0&CISOBOX=revel* 

122 http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2FFHMedieval2&CISOPTR=49052&REC=0&CISOBOX=revel* 

123 Quorndon Records http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924029786179#page/n107/mode/2up 

124 Close Rolls http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FHMedieval2&CISOPTR=51560&CISOSHOW=51189 

125 A. 6624. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64381 


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Long Buckby. Conceivably this Robert Revell might be the son of William of Newbold, but this is far from certain. There is 

nothing to suggest that William of Newbold had a third son. 

Plausibly an earlier reference to this Roger Revell is in the ‘Estate Book of Henry de Bray’ of Harleston, Northamptonshire, 

where a Roger de Ryvylle is described in 1304 as an attorney for William Russell, 127 suggesting that this Roger was born not 

later than ca 1284. Harlestone is some six miles south-west of Watford, Northamptonshire. 

The only other Revell recorded in connection with Watford is an obscure Thomas Revell who is also associated with a Robert 

Revell, both of whom are recorded in the Patent Rolls dated 1280, as follows: 

‘Appointment of Nicholas de Stapleton and Elias de Bekingham to take the assise of novel disseisin arraigned by Henry Crete 

[Grete] against Robert Ryuel and Thomas Ryuel, touching a tenement in Bukkeby’. 128 

He is probably the Thomas Revell who is recorded in the Close Rolls as holding land of Eustace de Watford (of Watford, 

Northamptonshire) by free service in 1276, 129 and Thomas must have been born no later than ca 1256. The associated Robert 

Revell must have been born no later than ca 1260 and therefore cannot be Robert the son of William of Newbold, and it is 

tentatively suggested that he is Robert Revell of Tiffield son of Hugh living in 1280 but dead by 1294 — see Part 1 and Table 

1b — but clearly, Robert Revell of Tiffield who was dead by 1294 cannot be the brother of Roger Revell extant 1314. 

The reference to a ‘tenement in Bukkeby’ is possibly significant. The earliest of the Revells associated with Buckeby is Richard 

son of William de Hoxendona ca 1220 discussed in Part 1 and thought to be Richard Revell son of Sheriff Richard. The next 

is the obscure Roger Revell recorded in 1235 / 6 who is followed in 1242 by a Robert Revell thought to be Robert of Tiffield 

son of Hugh, then in 1280 by the obscure Thomas Revell in association with Robert Revell, and by 1299 is in the hands of 

William of Newbold. The descent of the property, plus the two occurrences of the forename Roger, tends to suggest that these 

Revells are quite closely connected. 

That said, it is difficult to explain the descent from Richard Revell son of Sheriff Richard to a branch that must be fairly 

distant, that from Andrew of Bengeo to William of Newbold, and that must raise a question, as discussed in Part 1, as to 

whether or not that Richard Revell son of Sheriff Richard and Richard Revell the son (or son-in-law) of William of 

Hoxendona, are the same individual. 

Probably it is the same Roger Revell who is referred to in a demise dated October 26 th 1329, as follows: 130 

‘By Roger Revel, lord of Little Newnham, and his wife Joan to Ralph le Draper of Coventry of a field in Newnham [Paddox] 

called Theumanmedou from 28 Oct 1329 for ten years for a certain sum’. 

On October 13 th 1332 a final concord reads: 

‘Final concord made at Westminster before William de Herle [Chief Justice of the Common Pleas], in which Roger Ryvel and 

Joan, his wife, plaintiffs, acknowledge the right of Richard de Kyrkeby, chaplain, defendant, to the manor of Newnham Paddox 

(Newenham juxta Kirkeby Monachorum), Warwickshire, in return for which they receive from him a life grant of two parts of the 

same manor, the future succession to their property being also specified’. 131 

According to BHOL, quoting Feet of Fines, Roger Ryvel was the chief taxpayer at Newnham Paddox in 1332, but the precise 

identity of Joan is unclear. BHOL states that in 1333, Julian the widow of Philip de Newnham, held in dower one third of the 

Manor of Newnham and that the reversion of this third was settled on a Philip de Newnham and his wife Alice, in tail. This 

Philip is thought to be a grandson of the elder Philip. 

BHOL goes on to say ‘At the same time Roger Ryvel and Joan his wife settled the other two-thirds of the manor on themselves 

for their lives, and then to Philip and Alice in tail. (fn. 49) In each case there were contingent remainders to Philip's brother 

Robert de Newnham (probably a clerk) for life, and then to his brother John in tail, or to their sisters Joan and Mariot in tail, or 

to the right heirs of Joan wife of Roger Ryvel, who must have been daughter of the elder and mother of the younger Philip. (fn. 

50)’. 132 

If the foregoing statement is correct, then either Joan married twice, with Roger Revel her second husband, or their son Philip 

took his mother’s name. Dugdale in ‘Antiquities of Warwickshire’ shows Joan de Newnham, the heir of Philip and Julian, as 

127 The Estate Book of Henry de Bray http://www.archive.org/stream/estatebookofhenr00brayrich#page/104/mode/2up 

128 Patent Rolls page 65 

http://ia600104.us.archive.org//load_djvu_applet.php?file=10/items/annualreportdep01offigoog/annualreportdep01offigoog.djvu 

129 Close Rolls pages 327, 328, 329 & 331 

http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2FFHMedieval2&CISOPTR=64503&REC=0&CISOBOX=rynel 

130 BA/H/8/466/3 Coventry Archives http://www.coventrycollections.org/collections/?id=COVHC_BA_H_8_466_3&title=Demise 

131 WARD 2/56/197/4 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C4456830 

132 A History of the County of Warwick Volume 6 http://www.britishhistory.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57122&strquery=%22Philip%20de%20Newnham%22 

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marrying Alan de Kilworth [Kenilworth]. This Joan and Alan are shown as having two sons, Philip de Newnham and Robert de 

Newnham, 133 but dates are not given and there is no reference to a second marriage. 

However, consistent with the foregoing, on January 10 th 1327 / 8 the Close Rolls contain an entry as follows: 134 

‘To the Sheriff of Warwick. Order to restore …. Alan de Kelyngwurth, lord of Little Newenham, Clerk, whose lands, goods and 

chattels were taken into the king's hands upon his being charged before the king at Warrewyk with the homicide of Nicholas de 

Wylas, slain at Pahnton [Palinton?], and with the harbouring of divers thieves’, and it is plausible that Joan did marry twice. 

Harleston is ca 5 miles from Long Buckby, ca 8 miles from Watford (Northamptonshire) and ca 10 miles from Newnham and 

the manor is associated with the Priory of Monks Kirby. 

There are two other geographically isolated records, the first of a Roger Ryuel listed at Brauncewell in the Lincolnshire Lay 

Subsidy in 1332. 135 The second refers to a Roger Revell ordained in 1339 as Subdeacon at Bromyard Church by John Bishop of 

Hereford. 136 Neither seems likely to be this individual. 

William Revell (Ryvel) of Buckeby son of Robert of Bukkeby and grandson of William Revell of 

Newbold Revell. Extant ? 1310–1325–1345–1380–1393 ? 

This William Revell’s date of birth is not known for certain, but in 1345 he is recorded explicitly as ‘William Ryvel of Buckeby’ 

as follows: 

‘Acquittance by Nicholas Felicessone, reve of the manor of Hetherington, to William Ryvel, of Buckeby, for 40s. in part of 65s. 

wherein the said William was bound to his lord the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem for a relief in arrear. 

137, 138 

Hetherington, Saturday after the Nativity of the B.V.M., 18 Edward III’. 

William Revell’s father was probably born ca 1270, and William’s daughter married no later than 1365. Together these records 

suggest that this William Revell was born no later than ca 1325, but his father would then have been ~55, and it is thus likely 

that William of Buckeby was born somewhat earlier, say in the period 1310 to 1320. 

It is probably this William Revell who is referred to in Bridge’s (citing Comp. Walt. Parles) as in 1346 holding ‘that part of 

Buckby lordship as was possessed by Hugh Revell in the time of Henry III’, 139 i.e. in the period 1216 to 1272 

In 1347 a ‘William Ryvel of Bukkeby’ is named in an ‘Oyer and terminer’ that also refers to ‘John ' William baillyf Ryvel' of 

Bukkeby’, 140 as follows: 

‘Commission of oyer and terminer to Roger Hillary, Thomas de Bukton, Henry de Grene and Nicholas de Vieleston, on 

complaint by Joan late the wife of Ralph Basset of Drayton that William Ryvel of Bukkeby, John ' Williambaillyf Ryvel' of 

Bukkeby, Thomas Waleys, John de Shelton, Henry Bussel, William Shephurd, John Mody and others broke her close at Bukkeby 

and entered her free chace there, hunted in the chace, and fished in her stews there, carried away fish therefrom with other of 

her goods as well as hares, rabbits, partridges and pheasants from the warren and assaulted her servant, Nicholas le Waryner, 

whereby she lost his service for a great time. By fine of 1 mark paid to the clerk of the hanaper. Northampton’. 141 

Matt Tompkins advises that ‘You often see constructions like ‘John Williambaillyf Ryvel’ in the records of the royal courts in 

the 14 th and 15 th centuries, though I don't think I've ever come across them anywhere else - they seem to be just a legal usage. 

They are always applied to servants, apparently to servants who themselves lacked surnames and were known instead by 

their occupational relationship to their employer, though I have always suspected that, in the 15 th century at least, the 

individuals concerned did in fact have hereditary surnames of their own and that this unusual style was just a legal convention. 

Perhaps it was used when the individual's surname was not known to the lawyer or court clerk who drew up the record. 

Though occasionally you see examples when the servant's true surname is also given. For example in 1374 suits were brought 

in Common Pleas by the prior of Fordham against a man called ‘Stephen Badercours Thomasseruant Offord’ (i.e. Stephen 

Badercours, servant of Thomas Offord) and by Thomas Hichecokesson against John Geke, Katherine Ellesworth, widow of 

133 The Antiquities of Warwickshire Volume 1 pages 85–86 

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EWhZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=%22de+newnham%22&source=bl&ots=pn8wfjOcpU&sig=v 

gh1mAttBM8lAa9CoY9p8dH3ihY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0HumT6DmINGr8QPRpMz- 

BA&ved=0CGoQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22de%20newnham%22&f=false 

134 Close Rolls page 625 http://archive.org/stream/calendarofclose04grea#page/624/mode/2up 

135 Lincolnshire Lay Subsidy Rolls http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/LincLSR/BynR2.html and http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/pot/lincs/braunce.html 

136 Canterbury and York Series http://www.archive.org/stream/canterburyyork14unknuoft/canterburyyork14unknuoft_djvu.txt 

137 A9700 http://www.archive.org/stream/descriptivecatal04greauoft/descriptivecatal04greauoft_djvu.txt 

138 A. 9700. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64411 

139 Courtesy of Doug Thompson https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/soc.genealogy.medieval/Yi0QDVwuxtw 



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George Ellesworth, and ‘Henry Orewelle that was Georgesseruant of Ellesworth’. The latter is an example of a rather odd 

inverted syntax which you occasionally come across, meaning 'who used to be the servant of George Ellesworth'. 

Anyway, this particular example means William the bailiff of John Ryvel. It must be doubtful whether he [the bailiff] is a 

relation of his employer’. 142 

In 1349 a general release, states as follows, ‘Nicholas le Wariner of Buckeby to William son of Robert Ryvel of the same. 

Overton Quatremars, co. Leicester’, 143 and clearly establishes this William’s ancestry, and presumably relates in some way to 

the earlier Oyer and Terminer. 

William Revell’s wife Ellen died in 1354 and William was named as her executor. Ellen Revell’s will specifies as follows: 144 

‘A11561. Testament, with probate endorsed, of Ellen, wife of William Revel, of Buckeby, dated Tuesday, the feast of the 

Circumcision, 1354; soul to Almighty God, body to be buried in parish church of Buckeby, and what is right to God and Holy 

Church for a mortuary with her (coram me nomine princ') in remission of her sins; to Nicholas, the parish chaplain 2s. to have 

her in mind among the others at celebration; all things touching her funeral on the day of her burial to be ordered at the 

pleasure of William Revel, her husband; the residue to her said husband and her children; executor, her said husband. 

Endorsed: Proved before the official of the archdeacon . . . the morrow of All Hallows, VII. Id. February . . . . . . . Fragment of 

seal’. 

Ellen Revell’s ancestry is not known but it was comparatively unusual for a woman of that era to make a will, and it suggests 

that she was of some standing. 

In 1355 property at Buckeby is surrendered to William Revell by William Scotyn: 145 

‘A8286. General release by William Scotyn to William Ryvel of Buckeby. Daylyngton, Saturday, Easter Eve, 28 Edward III. 

Seal quasi- heraldic’. 

In 1365 Elizabeth Daneys surrenders to him property at Buckeby and Ryngethorpe that she held in dower: 146 

‘A8277. Indenture, being a surrender by Elizabeth Danys to William Ryvel of Buckeby of all the lands she had in dower in 

Buckeby, co. Northampton and Ryngethorp, co. Leicester, on payment to her or her attorney during her life of five marks at 

Tykyngcote yearly. Tykyngcote, Friday after the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, 38 Edward III. Fragments of seal of arms’. 

They are mentioned in acquittances, i.e. receipts for payment in full, relating to the same property, as follows: 

In 1373, ‘Acquittance by Elizabeth Daneys to William Rivel of Buckby, for 2 1/2 marks, for Easter term, for Buckby, 

Ryngethorp and Shawell (Shathewell: Northants. Leics’, 147 and in 1375, 

‘A9640. Acquittance by Elizabeth, late the wife of Roland Daneys, knight, to William Revel of Bukkeby, for 2½ marks, for lands 

and tenements which he held of her in Bukkeby and Ryngel Thorp, and for 2 marks for lands and tenements which he held in 

Neuton, co. Warwick, and all arrears, for Easter term, 48 Edward III. Tikencote, co. Roteland, the morrow of Easter. French. 

Seal of arms’. 148 

This William Revell is also named in Feet of Fines dated may 15 th 1366 which describes the conveyance of ‘The manor of 

Shathew[ell']’ from Emma the wife of Hugh Fyton to her sister Katherine the wife of Thomas Spigurnel, who pay Emma 100 

marks of silver. 149 

‘Emma has acknowledged the manor to be the right of Thomas, and has rendered it to Thomas and Katherine in the same court, 

excepting 10 shillings of rent in the same manor, and has granted to Thomas and Katherine the rent, together with the homages 

and all services of John, the master of the hospital of St John of Lutterworthe, and his successors, Thomas Bole, Philip Cok', 

William Palmer, William Ryuell' (or William Rynell'), Robert Thomkyn, Beatrice Fyton', Nicholas Margarete, William 

Hendeman and Isabel Taillour and their heirs, in respect of all the tenements which they held before of Emma in the aforesaid 

manor, to hold to Thomas and Katherine and the heirs of Thomas, of the chief lords for ever’. 

142 https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/soc.genealogy.medieval/bEubZVzaCyo 

143 A. 7460 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64389 

144 A. 11561 http://www.archive.org/stream/descriptivecatal05greauoft#page/164/mode/2up/search/revel 



147 E 210/10385 

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=7036525&CATLN=6&Highlight=%2CWILLIAM%2CRIVEL 

&accessmethod=0 

148 A9640 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64411 

149 CP 25/1/125/65, http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_125_65.shtml 

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Shawell, Leicestershire, is about ten miles north of Long Buckby, Northamptonshire. Ryngelthorpe or Ringoldthorpe is now 

Goldsmith Grange in Scalford, Leicestershire, some 40 miles north of Long Buckby and some 30 miles north-east of Shawell. 

In 1378 William Revel made an indenture of demise, i.e. leased land at Buckeby, as follows: 150 

‘A. 9411. Indenture of demise for six years by William Revel of Buckeby to William Robyn, John Joye, William Ferrour, 

William Hopkyn, Henry Andreu, Nicholas Hobbe, William Ladde and Richard Broun, of a grange, a 'shepene' and a 'heyhouse' 

in the manor of Buckeby, together with all the demesne land of Buckeby, with specified exceptions; rent, 10 marks. They are to 

pay for their boon-works (operibus) during the said term, the said William and Richard 40d., and the rest 20s., &c. Friday the 

feast of the Apostles Philip and James, 51 Edward III. Draft’. 

Matt Tompkins comments as follows: 

‘An interesting document - William Revel is leasing out his manorial demesne lands to what looks like a syndicate of his tenants. 

In 1377 this was widely done by manorial lords, but 50 years earlier they would probably have been farming their demesnes 

themselves, using a mix of hired labour and the work services owed by their tenants (the ‘boon-works’ mentioned in the deed) 

and selling the produce. However various calamities of the early-to-mid 14th century, culminating in the Black Death, resulted 

in low foodstuff prices and high wages which made demesne farming unprofitable and by the end of the century most lords had 

leased their demesnes out. It was most often leased either as a whole to a single entrepreneur or in small parcels to individual 

tenants - leases of the entire demesne to the tenants collectively were rather less common’. 151 

In 1379 a William Revel is named as an assessor for and collector of tax in the county of Northampton, 152 and on November 10 th 

1380 he witnessed a document as follows: 153 

‘John Mallore, son and heir of John Mallore knight (militis) lord of Welton, to Richard Deystere of Buckeby and Alice his wife, 

their heirs and assigns. Charter with warranty of a messuage and half a virgate of land in Buckeby lately held of John the father 

by Roger Palmere, between tenements of Sir Ralph Basset knight and William Revel. Dated Buckeby, Monday after St. Simon 

and St. Jude 4 Richard II. Witnesses : Thomas de Tewe, Ralph Paries, William Revel, Henry Eyr, William Russell, Robert 

Pircok, Nicholas Lucas. 

Memorandum of acknowledgment in the chancery at Norhampton, 13 November’. 

John Malory son of John Malory, is probably the John Malory who married Alicia Revell, sometimes described as the fourth 

daughter of Sir John Revell, senior, discussed above. Roger Palmere is probably the ‘bondman’ of William Revell’s daughter, 

Joan Revell, and son-in-law Geoffrey (Reynolds) de Edmundescote, 154 who are discussed below. William Revell died at some 

date between 1380 and 1393. 155 

William Ryvell of Byfield who married Isabel. A possible son of William of Bukkeby and Ellen 

On April 27 th 1409 a William Rynell is mentioned as follows, ‘Conditional gift, indented, by John Masthrop' William Rynell' 

and John Coupere to John Wryght' of Byfeld and Avice his wife for the term of their lives of one messuage with a garden 

adjoining, and one virgate of land with appurtenances, lately belonging to Agnes Reyner, all of which the donors recently held 

by gift and enfeoffment of the said John Wryght' in Byfeld: and after the death of John Wryght' and Avice the said messuage and 

land shall remain forever with William Wryght' son of the said John Wryght, and with Alice his wife and the legitimate heirs of 

their bodies, but if they die without heirs the remainder shall go to the heirs and assigns of the said John Wryght and Avice. 

Witnesses: William Verney John Fauconer William Hogekyns Thomas Heynes John Houchenes and others’. 156 

In the Fine Rolls this William Revell is mentioned again on November 3 rd 1409 along with his wife Isabel as deforciants and 

Thomas Crysp of Appletree, querent, as follows ‘Settlement of the action taken against them by Thomas Crysp over a messuage 

157, 158 

and 12 acres of land in Aston, Northamptonshire’. They are further discussed in Part 3. Aston le Walls and Appletree are 

three miles from Byfeld. 

The identity of this William Revell is far from clear but he must have been born no later than ca 1389 and is thus of either the 

same generation as Richard Revell / Reynolds or his father Geoffrey de Edmescote. The property at Byfield, some 12 miles 

south-west of Buckeby, is recorded subsequently with Sheriff Robert, son of Richard Ryvell / Reynolds (ca 1438–1491), 


151 https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/soc.genealogy.medieval/cZo2KGsoeqs 

152 Fine Rolls http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2FFHMedieval&CISOPTR=28650&REC=0&CISOBOX=ryvel* 

153 Close Rolls http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2FFHMedieval&CISOPTR=95518&REC=0&CISOBOX=revel 



156 L1/70 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=187-l1&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 

157 Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/179/91 http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_179_91.shtml 

158 http://www.girders.net/index.php?dir=Ry%2F 

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Thomas Ryvell, grocer of London, son of Sheriff Robert (died 1497) and John son and heir of Sheriff Robert Revell: 

presumably they are all related to William Revell and Isabel. 

A plausible candidate for William of Byfield is the William Revell son of William of Buckeby and Ellen who according to 

Dugdale and Gladwin Turbutt died without issue seised of land at Buckeby and Edmescote. 159 How the property at Byfield was 

first acquired is unknown but perhaps the simplest explanation is that it was acquired by marriage, presumably from Isabel, 

whose maiden name is not recorded. 

A William Revell, plaintiff, is named in a Chancery record concerning property in Byfield and Daventry dated to the period 

1558 to 1580, 160 but there is no evidence of a connection. 

John Revell son William of Bukkeby and Ellen, Extant ?–1330–1353–1375–1413 

John Revell’s date of birth and death are not known. It is estimated that his father was born no later than 1325, but almost 

certainly in the period ca 1310 to 1320. John Revell’s mother died in 1354 and he must have been born at some date within the 

period of ca 1330 to 1353. It is not known for certain whether or not he married, and if he did marry, whether there were 

surviving children, but it seems quite likely that he married Cecilia and that John Revell of Erle Street is their son. Whether or 

not these two Johns are father and son it is impossible to define to which of them certain records refer. There are no certain 

records of John Revell son of William before a reference in the Close Rolls to a confirmation dated August 12 th 1375, as 

follows: 161 

‘Writing of John de Charleton of Middlesex and Thomas his son, being a confirmation with warranty to John son of William 

Rivel of Bukeby, his heirs and assigns, of the estate in fee simple which he has by feoffment of Robert Oweyn of Pulteneye in all 

the lands, rents, services and reversions in the towns of Edmundscote and Milwirton CO. Warewik, Lilleburne co. Norhampton, 

Dadlyngton and Hynkele CO. Leycestre which the said Robert had of the gift of the said John Charleton, and quitclaim of the 

premises ; also a grant with like warranty to the said John Rivel and his heirs of all rents and services in the said towns which 

they the said John Charleton and Thomas or either of them now has, and of the reversion of all lands, rents and services in the 

said towns of Edmundiscote, Milwirton and Lillebourne now held in dower by Joan who was wife of James Spigurnel by 

endowment of her said husband with reversion to them. Witnesses : John Wroth the younger, Robert de Pulteneye, Thomas Twe 

of Walton, William Vavasour of Wykelee. Dated 12 August 48 Edward III. French’. 

BHOL records that ‘The [Spigurnel] family seems to have died out soon after this, possibly ending in an heiress married to John 

de Charleton of Middlesex, as he and his son Thomas in 1374 confirmed to John, son of William Rivel of Buckby (Northants.), 

lands in Emscote and Milverton, with the reversion of others held in dower by Joan, widow of James Spigurnel. (fn. 64)’. 162, 

This must include the property held of Thomas Spigurnel in 1365 by John’s father William Revell, who was dead by 1374. 163 

Pulteneye is a lost village of Leicestershire. 

Slightly earlier that same year on July 11 th and July 15 th there are references in the Close Rolls to a John Revell son of William 

Revell, almost certainly the same individual, who ‘has by deed enrolled made a grant, confirmation and quitclaim with warranty 

to the first parties …’ with regard to a considerable amount of property in Kent, City of London, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and 

Essex. 164, 165 These transactions are elsewhere described as being ‘…. in pursuance of a trust, as it seems, created by the abovementioned 

Sir William de Pulteney, confirmed this manor to Sir Nicholas Lovain, Aubrey de Vere, and others’. 166 

There are no further records that can be attributed unequivocally to this individual but there is an undated demise, i.e. lease, 

which might have been made by this individual, as follows: 167 

‘Demise by John son of William Rivel of Crendon to Henry Maykous, clerk of Buckeby, and Maud his daughter, for their lives, 

of the tenement Wymond Terri held in Buckeby; rent, 12d. to the chief lords and 3s. to him and his heirs’. The reference to a 

tenement in Buckeby strongly suggests that this is John Revell the son of William Revell of Buckeby but the description as ‘of 

Crendon’ is difficult to explain. The Terri or Terry family are well documented in Yelvertoft, five miles north of Buckeby, in 

the period 1310 to 1375 but it has not been possible to find any other reference to ‘Wymond Terri’. It seems plausible that the 

location ‘Crendon’ should in fact be ‘Creaton’, some six miles west of Long Buckby and some eight miles from Yelvertoft. 

159 Antiquities of Warwickshire page 55 by Dugdale http://www.archive.org/stream/antiquitiesofwar00dugd#page/54/mode/2up/search/revel 

160 C 3/151/57 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C3785195 

161 Close Rolls http://archive.org/stream/cu31924091767982/cu31924091767982_djvu.txt 

162BHOL http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57119 

163 Close Rolls page 107 http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924091767982#page/n53/mode/2up/search/spig 

164 Calendar of Close Rolls page 107 http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924091767982#page/n117/mode/2up/search/revel 

165 Calendar of Close Rolls page 111 http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924091767982#page/n121/mode/2up 

166 England's Topographer, or ‘A new and complete history of the county of Kent’ By William Henry Ireland Published 1830 Original from Oxford 

University Digitized 16 Mar 2007 p. 673. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NQ0HAAAAQAAJ. Also BHOL http://www.britishhistory.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53783 

167 A. 8981 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64404 

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As discussed below John Revell’s sister Joan Revell demised the Buckby property and moved to Erle Street, Coventry, when 

she married for a second time. As a consequence it is plausible that the following records refer to her brother. 

In 1386 there is a record of a ‘John Ryvell of Withybrook’ owing £12 to ‘William Wolf, merchant of Coventry, and Robert Wolf 

of Coventry’, 168 and this John Ryvell was probably born not later than ca 1366. Withybrook is some eight miles north-east of 

Coventry. 

It is also possible that it is her brother who is named in the Patent Rolls dated August 31 st 1395, as follows: 

‘John Hokley of Coventry, mercer, staying in England, has letters nominating Ralph Hebbe of Dublin and John Ryvell of 

Coventry his attorneys in Ireland for one year. John de Scarle, clerk, received the attorneys’. 169 

However, there are subsequent records of a John Revell associated with Gosford Street and Earl Street, and he is clearly 

described as a transitory merchant with connections to Ireland from early in the 15 th century until at least 1434, and he can 

hardly be the John Revell born before 1354. This John Revell of Erle Street is discussed separately, below. 

The identity of a John Rynell witness in 1399 to a document referring to property at Draghton, Northamptonshire, 170 is 

uncertain, but might be either of these Johns or even John Revell of Rockingham — see below. 

John Ryvell, merchant of Coventry, parents uncertain, extant ?–1366–1375–1395–1434–? 

It is impossible to distinguish between records that refer to John Revell son of William and John Revell merchant of Erle 

Street, Coventry. The birth, death and marriage(s) of this John Revell of Erle Street are not clearly recorded, but he is 

plausibly the son of John Revell son of William. John Revell of Erle Street may have married twice, first to an Alice, and 

second to a Joan who survived him and remarried. Alternatively, John Revell and Alice might be his parents, but if so at least 

his father must have lived to a good age, and it is more plausible that his mother is the Cecilia Ryuell recorded in the ‘Register 

of the Coventry Trinity Guild’ and that Joan is his wife. 171 

Although the attribution remains uncertain, it is plausible that the John Ryvell of Coventry named in the ‘Calendar of Patent 

Rolls’ as the attorney in 1395 to John Hokley of Coventry, Mercer, is John Revell the merchant of Erle Street: 172 

‘John Hokley of Coventry, mercer, staying in England, has letters nominating Ralph Hebbe of Dublin and John Ryvell of 

Coventry his attorneys in Ireland for one year. John de Scarle, clerk, received the attorneys’. 173 

A Ralph Hebbe (Ebbe, Ebb) was a Bailiff in 1391–2, Provost in 1399, 174 and mayor of Dublin 1399–1400, 175 and is quite well 

documented at the end of the 14 th century as a merchant with connections to England, 176, 177, 178 and as ‘collector of customs of 

wool, hides [etc.]’. 179 It seems that in the late 14 th and early 15 th centuries there was a substantial trade between Coventry and 

Dublin, as follows: 180 

‘Customs and Port Entries. These entries record the collection of money on trade to and from Ireland and on other sea-going 

trade. Customs represent tolls taken on goods going out of (or passing through) the city on the way to Ireland or other foreign 

parts, and are therefore entered by the cart or horse load. Port Entries represent tolls taken on imparts, entered under the ships 

on which they arrived. The entries vary in the detail they give, but are composed from the following: - the merchant, his home 

town (where this is not given, it may possibly indicate a Cestrian), date, amount paid, and occasionally a description of the 

goods - salt, herrings, salmon, malt, wheat and various types of wines occur. In England, Coventry, leads a long list of towns 

and ports from which the merchants are drawn; it includes (in no special order) Bristol, Dartmouth, Fowey, London, Newport 

(S. Wales?), York, Lincoln, Manchester and Preston; and in Ireland, Drogheda and Dublin head a list of small East coast 

Ports’. 

168 C 241/174/145 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=- 

5101097&CATLN=7&Highlight=%2CRYVELL&accessmethod=0 

169 Calendar of Patent Rolls Richard II, vol. 5, p. 618 

170 FH3004 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=154-fh_1-3&cid=1-5&kw=rynell 

171 The Trinity Guild of Coventry http://www.achive.org/stream/publicationsdugd13dugduoft#page/6/mode/2up 



174 History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin 

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TzktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA500&lpg=PA500&dq=%22ralph+ebb%22&source=bl&ots=xggUXNW_LE&sig=D 

SRQ8rVV7wU_cvTN6_QO54SjlO4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KEPLT- 

I3zfrxA6XaqOAP&ved=0CE0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22ralph%20ebb%22&f=false 

175 http://www.archive.org/stream/proceedingsroya13acadgoog/proceedingsroya13acadgoog_djvu.txt 

176 Patent Rolls http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/r2v6/body/Richard2vol6page0291.pdf 


178 Patent Rolls http://chancery.tcd.ie/document/patent/10-richard-ii/81 

179 Patent Rolls http://chancery.tcd.ie/roll/19-Richard-II/patent 

180 Cheshire and Chester Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=017-zm_1&cid=2#2 

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Another example is sprovided by the Calendar of Patent Rolls that has a record dated January 22 nd 1420 / 1 as follows: 181 

‘John Esterton of Coventre, staying in England, has letters nominating John Taillour of Dublin and William Faseman of 

Coventre his attorneys in Ireland for two years. Henry Shelford, clerk, received the attorneys until the return of the nominator 

to Ireland’. 

The ‘Register of the Coventry Trinity Guild’ lists the names of its members in the late 14 th and early 15 th century and includes 

‘Johannes Ryuel,' passager, et Alicia’. According to the footnote, this is ‘John Rivill of Erll Street, and Alicia is his wife’. 182 

A ‘Cecilia Ryuell’ is separately mentioned, 183 and as discussed above might plausibly be his mother. 

The introduction to this book explains that the records cover the period 1340 (when the Guild was formed) to ca 1450, and that 

for any given forename the entries are in chronological order. 184 The entries for Johannes occupy pages 15 to 48 and the entry 

for Johannes Ryuel is on page 41 and therefore probably relates to the later years within this period. Johannes Touchet (Lord 

Audley), who appears in the list immediately before Johannes Ryuel, died in 1409 and John Revell’s entry must have been 

made prior to that date, and possibly considerably before that date. 

There is then an 18-year gap in the precisely dated records and it is possible that this John Revell was based in Dublin during 

this period, but it is also possible that the John Ryvell, merchant, mentioned on May 8 th 1413 in connection with a Johannes 

Golofre (dyer) and property in Gosford Street, Coventry, as follows, is a different individual: 185 

‘Whereby, having recited that John [Burghill], bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, John Dermon' and William Brayles 

(chaplains), Nicholas Dodenhale and John Ryvell (merchants) by charter granted to John Golofre [of Coventry, dyer] and his 

heirs 4 marks per annum rent from premises outside Gosford Bridges, therefore John Golofre grants that, if William Botener of 

Withybrook, Ralph Garton' (mercer), John Leeder (passenger) of Coventry and Adam Golofre (chaplain) come to possess a 

messuage in Gosford Street which lies between John Garton''s tenement on the east and John Wedon''s on the west, extending 

from Gosford Street to Pake Medewe, and with a piece of land extending to the Sherbourne, which messuage William Botener et 

al had by confirmation from John Dermon' et al, without recovery or loss through the action of the heirs of Richard Hall, 

Katherine his late wife, George Pykeryng' or John Velers, and without collusion by E. Botener et al, then the rent will be void; if 

the heirs of the Halls or J. Velers recover their property against Botener et al, or if Botener et al be expelled therefrom, the rent 

will stay in force. [Former reference: 1 Henry V/6.]’. 

Coventry city archives have a record of a remise, release and quitclaim dated Janusry 21 st 1423 / 4, as follows: 186 

‘By Dom John Derman (chaplain) and John Ryvell (merchant) to John Michell (of Coventry, mercer) of 7/- per annum rent 

from PA468/5/3/32/3's messuage. [Former reference: Drapers 11/253.]’. 

A grant dated August 27 th 1425 reads ‘By Richard Corbrond', chaplain, to John Ryvell' (of Coventry, merchant) of 

PA468/5/3/33/4's messuage, Henry Preston' being described as a former occupant of the adjacent one’. 187 The earlier history of 

this property is defined in an item dated July 7 th 1420, as follows: 188 

‘By Hugh Ruggeley (of Coventry, merchant) and his wife Alice to Richard Corbrond', chaplain, of a Little Park Street tenement, 

lying between [the mercer] WIlliam Attelburgh''s and that belonging to St. John Baptist's Hospital which Henry Preston' 

occupies) which once belonged to Alice's former husband Peter "Dorley". [No former reference.]’. 

In 1424 Hugo Rugeley was associated with Spon Street and Henry Preston with Smytheforde Street. The later history of this 

property is described in a demise dated October 6 th 1447, as follows: 189 

‘By Giles Allesley (merchant), John Shadd' (mercer) and John Norton' (chaplain), all of Coventry, to Henry Adderton', Robert 

Adderton' of Coventry and John Broun' (chaplain) of PA468/5/3/33/5's tenement, which the demisors had from John Ryvell (late 

of Coventry, merchant). [Former reference: Drapers 11/193.]’ 

It would appear that the details of one stage in the history of this property have been lost, i.e. the record for the transfer of the 

property from John Revell to Giles Allesley. As discussed below this John Revell was paying tax until at least 1431 but not in 

1434 suggesting that this missing transfer probably occurred in the period 1431 to 1434 and certainly no later than 1443 because 

John Revell’s widow Joan remarried at some date post 1431 but before 1443. 

A ‘Grant in Fee’ and a demise dated October 7 th 1430 refer to property on Gosford Street, outside Gosford Bridge, on Cook 

190, 191 

Street and at ‘Hasilwode’. 

181 Calendar of Patent Rolls http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/h5v2/body/Henry5vol2page0254.pdf 

182 The Guild of Holy Trinity http://www.achive.org/stream/publicationsdugd13dugduoft#page/6/mode/2up 

183 The Trinity Guild of Coventry http://www.achive.org/stream/publicationsdugd13dugduoft#page/6/mode/2up 

184 The Guild of Holy Trinity http://www.archive.org/stream/publicationsdugd13dugduoft#page/n17/mode/2up 

185 BA/B/16/201/4 Coventry Archives. http://www.coventrycollections.org/collections/?id=COVHC_BA_B_16_201_4&title=Agreement 

186 PA468/5/3/32/6 http://www.coventrycollections.org/collections/?id=COVHC_PA468_5_3_32_6&title=Remise%2c+Release+and+Quitclaim 

187 PA468/5/3/33/5 http://www.coventrycollections.org/collections/?id=COVHC_PA468_5_3_33_5&title=Grant 

188 PA468/5/3/33/4 http://www.coventrycollections.org/collections/searchresult.aspx?searchterm=PA468/5/3/33/4 

189 PA468/5/3/33/6 http://www.coventrycollections.org/collections/?id=COVHC_PA468_5_3_33_6&title=Demise 

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‘[Counterpart of BA/B/P/211/1.] By John Derman (chaplain) and John Revell (of Coventry, passenger) to John Lee (hosier) 

and William Charlton, both of Coventry, of (a) a tenement outside Gosford Bridge, lying between one once John Pykeryng''s and 

(on the south) a lane leading to the street to the field formerly David Corby's, extending east from the lane aforesaid to Holy 

Trinity Guild land beneath a tenement sometime belonging to J. Pykeryng', Henry Weston', Richard Corby and Thomas 

Doughty; (b) three cottages in the same Gosford Street, lying between the abbot of Coombe's tenement and Nicholas Dodenhall's 

heirs', extending from the street as far as Simon Baker's land; (c) two Gosford Street cottages, lying between S. Baker's tenement 

and Trinity Guild land, extending from the street to Baker's land; (d) a Cook Street cottage, lying between St. John Baptist's 

Hospital's tenement and one once Thomas Hamond's, extending from the street to the city ditch; and (e) a croft on the western 

side of Hasilwode with the entrance as far as a stream [torrentem], extending from the prior's land to John Waldegrave's field. 

[Former reference: 9 Henry VI/5.]’ 

The Coventry Leet Book records that a Johannes Ryvell was taxed on property in ‘Erll Strete’ in 1424 (1s-8d), 1429 (3s-4d) and 

1434 (6d), and was otherwise recorded there in 1425 (as a mercer), 1427 (a member of the Council of 48), 1429 (contributing to 

the ransom for John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury), 1430 and 1431 (contributing to a gift to the Duke of Gloucester). 192 The levels 

of tax paid indicate that he was by no means the most wealthy inhabitant of Erle Street. 

Similarly, a Richard Revell (Ryvell) is listed for Earl Street in 1424 (1s-0d), 1430 (1s-8d) and 1434 (2s-0d). His identity is not 

certain, but he must have been born no later than ca 1404, and is plausibly Richare son of Joan Revell and Geoffrey de 

Edmescote, see below. 

Because it is clear from earlier records that at least John Revell and his wife Alicia had arrived in Coventry before 1409, as had 

a Cecilia Revell, it is surprising that no Revells are recorded as paying tax or making any other contribution to the life of the 

City in the period 1420 to 1424. It is possible that they had not yet achieved sufficient prominence or perhaps were abroad, 

although in that case presumably their attorney would have made a payment for them. 

The record of tax paid in 1434 is the last of these records for Revells. Ther are none in 1435, 1439, 1444 or 1449, suggesting 

that either these Revells had all died, or that at least some had moved away. The connections with Ireland make it possible that 

some of these gaps in records arise because these Revells were overseas. It is also possible that John Revell married first in 

Ireland. 

A Belgrave family is well documented in Coventry and several are listed as members of the Trinity Guild of Coventry. These 

are ‘Petrus Belgraue de London et Alicia’ on page 54, ‘Robertus Belgraue, Willelmus et Alicia, Pater et mater eius’ on page 61, 

‘Willelmus Belgraue et Margeria’ on page 92 and ‘Willelmus Belgraue, junior, et Johanna’ on page 97 are listed as members of 

the Trinity Guild of Coventry. Entries for ‘Petrus’ occupy pages 53 and 54, for ‘Robertus’ pages 54 to 70 and for ‘Willelmus’ 

occupy pages 90 to 100. As explained above, the records cover the period 1340 (when the Guild was formed) to ca 1450, and 

that for any given forename the entries are in chronological order, 193 but it is not possible to date them precisely from this list, 

although clearly the William Belgrave married to Johanna must have been entered well towards 1450. A William Belgrave was 

bailiff in 1403 and mayor in 1410, 194 and master of the guild of the Holy Trinity in 1412, 195 and must have been born no later 

than 1383, and probably somewhat earlier to have been elected by his peers to a position of authority in 1403. The younger 

William Belgrave might well be his son and the individual resident Erll Street in the period 1424 to 1434 and recorded as late as 

1437. Johanna Belgrave his wife might well be the former Joan Ryvell the widow of John Ryvell. The date of Joan’s second 

marriage is uncertain but Joan Belgrave was widowed again by 1443. 196 

At some date in the period 1432 to 1443 William Belgrave of Coventry and his wife Joan, formerly the wife of John Ryvell, 

hold property described as ‘Messuages in Derby, late of William Fasemon, deceased’. 197 The exact location of the property is 

uncertain, but this record is in a section removed from those dealing with Shirland and Ogston, and is probably in Derby itself. 

— see also Part 4. 

Joan Revell daughter of William of Bukkeby and Ellen, Extant ?–1354–1385–1408–1411–1424 ? 

As indicated above, William Revell of Bukkeby and Ellen also had a daughter Joan Revell who married Geoffrey (Reynald) de 

Edmundscote, and they had a son Richard. Joan Revell’s date of birth is not known but unless her father married twice, it must 

predate her mother’s death in 1354. Even if her father did marry twice, records that Joan Revell was married by 1385 establish 

that she was born no later than ca 1364. Edmundscote has numerous spellings and corresponds to Emscote in Milverton, 

Warwickshire. 

190 BA/B/P/211/1 http://www.coventrycollections.org/collections/?id=COVHC_BA_B_16_211_1&title=Grant+in+Fee 

191 PA468/5/3/20/56 http://www.coventrycollections.org/collections/?id=COVHC_PA468_5_3_20_56&title=Demise 

192 ‘The Coventry Leet Book’ http://www.archive.org/stream/coventryleetboo00unkngoog#page/n57/mode/1up 

193 The Guild of Holy Trinity http://www.archive.org/stream/publicationsdugd13dugduoft#page/n17/mode/2up 

194 PA22 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=144-pa14&cid=18&kw=william%20belgrave#18 

195 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~shakespeare/warks/harvard_deeds.htm 


2404438&CATLN=7&Highlight=%2CJOHN%2CPOERS&accessmethod=0 

197 C 1/1514/1 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=-2474811&CATLN=7&accessmethod=5 

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Joan and her son Richard were known variously as Ryvelle, Revell, Reynald and Reynolds. The adoption of the woman’s 

maiden name as surname has been discussed in ‘A Dictionary of English Surnames’ which records ‘Richard son of Geoffrey 

Reynald of Edmascote otherwise called Richard Ryvelle, otherwise Richard son of Joan daughter of William Ryvell 

198, 199 

1408’. 

In 1393 Joan Revell and her husband and father are identified in a grant, as follows: 

‘Counterpart of grant by Geoffrey de Edmundscote and Joan his wife, daughter and heir of William Revell, to Thomas de 

Chambre of Kenilleworth, of Roger Palmer their bondman of their manor of Bucby; to have and to hold the said Roger with all 

his issue (sequela) begotten and to be begotten, with all their chattels and goods moveable and immoveable within Bucby and 

without, wherever found, to him the said Thomas his heirs and assigns for the term of the life of the said Geoffrey &c. 

Witnesses:—Henry Gentelman and others (named). Edmundescote, the feast of Ad Vincula of St. Peter, 16 Richard II. Seal’ 

John Watson advises that ‘A bondman was a male serf (or slave). Roger Palmer and his children are the subject of this 

transaction. Geoffrey de Edmundscote is giving (or selling?) Roger Palmer, his family and all his goods and chattels 

to Thomas de Chambre for the term of Geoffrey's life’. 200 

This record describing Joan as ‘daughter and heir of William Revell’ implies that William Revell has died. Matt Tompkins 

advises that: 201 

‘You couldn't be someone's heir till they had died, so in the vast majority of cases a reference to someone as X's heir meant X 

was dead. Technically a daughter could not be her father's heir if her brother was still living, but people did use the term a little 

loosely (for example, to mean someone was not technically the heir, but who had been left an asset by some other means than 

common law inheritance – e.g. by a bequest in a will, or via a settlement or trust), so I wouldn't set too much store by it’. 

There are other records, one of which is earlier, that clearly refer to this Joan Revell and / or her husband but which do not 

identify her father unequivocally. For example, on January 20 th 1384 / 5 Geoffrey and Joan Reynold grant a tenement 

consisting of ‘1 messuage, 100 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow and 30 acres of pasture in Buckeby’ to ‘Ralph Bassett of 

Drayton, knight’ that reverts to Geoffrey and Joan and the heirs of Joan on Ralph’s death. 202 

In 1393 it is recorded in the Patent Rolls, ‘Pardon to Geoffrey Reynold of Edmescote for aiding and afterwards harbouring his 

servant John Salesbury, who killed William Smyth of Hovyngham at Hovyngham on Monday after the feast of the Invention of 

the Crossing’. 203 

In 1395 the Fine Rolls record ‘Geoffrey Reynold of Edmundiscote and Joan his wife, deforcients’ with regard to ‘1 messuage, 

1 carucate of land, 8 acres of meadow and 3 acres of pasture in Ryngelthorp'. 204 

Ryngelthorp has various spellings and corresponds to Goldsmith Grange in Scalford, and is possibly (part of) the property held 

in dower by Elizabeth Daneys, widow of Roland Daneys, in 1375 and surrendered to William son of Robert of Buckeby, and 

held previously by William of Newbold — see Part 1 and Table 1b. 

Geoffrey Reynald of Bucby, his wife Joan and their bondman Roger Palmer are named in a deed dated 1397, as follows: 205 

‘Indenture being the defeasance of a bond in 40 marks wherein Geoffrey Reynald, William Ferrour and John Joey, all of Bucby, 

were bound to Warin Lucien, knight, viz. that whereas the said Geoffrey and Joan his wife in right of her lands in Bucby, 

claimed the body of Roger Palmer of the same as their bondman; if they, before Easter next, released all their claim against the 

said Roger and his issue and paid him 100s. at Midsummer and 10 marks 6s. 8d. on the feast of All Hallows following; then the 

said Warin granted that the said writing obligatory should be void. Sunday after the Invention of the Holy Cross, 20 Richard II. 

Seal’. 

The Patent Rolls for November 21 st 1397 record: 206 

‘Geoffrey Reygnold of Emescote co. Warwick for not appearing to answer John Gamelyn, parson of Shathewell, co. Leicester, 

and Robert Lary, parson of Relegh, co. Bedford,touching a debt of 40 marks. co. Bedford’. 


199 A Dictionary of English Surnames http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fPoujUPs3hYC&pg=RA1-PA68&lpg=RA1- 

PA68&dq=%22william+brun%22&source=web&ots=RVl_QDV36m&sig=dbk2- 

Z30lUDwzspBRtEK4oQaeGo&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA1232,M1 

200 https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/soc.genealogy.medieval/50H0b9iKGfw 

201 Personal Communication 

202 Feet of Fines CP 25/1/178/87 http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_178_87.shtml 

203 Patent Rolls http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/r2v5/body/Richard2vol5page0342.pdf 

204 Feet of Fines CP 25/1/126/70 http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_126_70.shtml 



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In the 1398 Fine Rolls Geoffrey d’Edmescote is recorded as a tax collector for Warwick, 207 and a writ dated January 30 th 1401 / 

2 describes ‘Geoffrey, lord of Emscote’ as a debtor of John Cooke of Lilbourne, Northamptonshire, and John Bukmore of 

Lackworth. 208 

An ‘Ancient Deed’ dated December 12 th 1402, as follows, establishes that Joan Revell has been widowed: 

‘Northampton A 9851. Counterpart of demise for nine years from Michaelmas last at 8 marks rent, by Joan late the wife of 

Geoffrey Reynald of Buckeby, widow, to John Bryce, John Smith, John Clyfton, and John Reynald of Buckeby, of the site of her 

manor in Buckeby , formerly William Ryvell’s, with the demesne lands, &c except the hall, chambers and kitchen, with the 

‘shepons’ and a ‘bay’ at the end of ‘le hayhuse’ next the hall for a stable, and except a close called ‘Lady Yard’ and a grove 

called ‘Armeley’ and the garden of the manor with a close between the hall and ‘le shephous’ and except the rents of tenants, 

free and bond, the land called ‘Bordlond,’ with ‘les frisses’ on Roulehille, court, fines, etc. Buckeby, 12 December, 8 Henry IV. 

Seals’. 209 

The identity of ‘John Reynald of Buckeby’ is uncertain, but possibly a son, brother or brother-in-law. That Joan Revell had a 

son Richard Revell is defined in a document dated 1408 as follows: 210 

‘A. 6614. Confirmation by Richard son and heir of Joan, daughter of William Ryvell, of a grant by Richard Southard and John 

Happesford, of Coventre, merchants, Thomas Ryvell of Edmescote, and John Everdon of Coventre, 'hosyer,' to William 

Attilburgh of Coventre, for his life, of the manor of Buckeby, the reversion of which, in fee, belongs to the said Richard son of 

Joan. 28 May, 9 Henry IV. Seal, broken’. 

Joan de Edmunscote née Revell married secondly William Attilburgh of Coventry (a hosier) at some date between 1402 and 

1411. William Attilburgh was Coroner in 1395 / 6 and Mayor of Coventry in 1406 and 1407. 211 

An article in ‘The Ancestor’ records: 212 

‘An agreement of 1420 is found both in French (A. 8470) and in Latin (A. 10408) with slight variations. Attention 

may be directed to it, because in the English version the latter Richard Ryvell, the prospective bridegroom, is described as 

‘son-in-law’ of William Attilbrough, the mayor of Coventry ; the abstract of the French one (to which we are referred) styles him 

‘stepson’ (fitz en ley). This is obviously a point of some importance to genealogists, and we think that ‘stepson’ would be right 

in both cases, for Richard is expressly referred to as son of Joan, William's wife’. 

In 1411 Joan’s son Richard is named as her heir, but as discussed above this is not absolute proof of her death. A William 

Attilburgh was granted land on ‘Erlstreit’ in 1421 and in 1424 a William Attilburgh and a Johanna Attilburgh were taxed 6s-8d 

and 3s-4d, respectively, on land in ‘Erll Strete’. 213 Althogh she would have been at least 70 this might well be Joan the 

daughter of William of Bukby and her second husband. In 1428 Richard inherited property that once belonged to William 

Attilburgh. 214 

Richard Ryvell of Coventry, Son of Geoffrey de Edmundscote and Joan Revell, and Grandson of 

William of Bukkeby, Extant 1386–1407–1455–1460 

Deciphering this Richard Ryvell’s parentage has proven rather complicated because of his father adopting his mother’s maiden 

name. Richard Ryvell’s father had died by 1402, 215 and his mother had remarried by 1411. In 1407 Richard Revell married 

Margery, the daughter of Robert Huggeford and Joyce his wife, 216, 217 establishing that he was born no later than ca 1386. His 

seal dated 1408 is described as ‘Ermine, on a bend three roundels’. 218 

BHOL states, ‘William Rivel left a daughter Joan who married Geoffrey de Edmundescote, also called Reynolds, and their son 

Richard took his mother's name of Rivel and in 1408 conveyed the manor [Edmescote]to Robert Hugford [son of John] and 

219, 220, 221 

Joyce his wife, whose daughter Margery Richard married’. This marriage was celebrated ‘en tut haste possible’ and it 

207 Fine Rolls page 266 http://archive.org/stream/calendaroffinero11greauoft#page/266/mode/2up 

208 C 241/190/79 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/browser.asp?CATLN=3&CATID=2240&POSCATLN=7&POSCATID=72000*- 

5106904&j=1 



211‘Coventry - Records of Early English Drama’ 

212 "The Ancestor; a quarterly review of county and family history, heraldry and antiquities" 

http://www.archive.org/stream/ancestorquarterl06londuoft/ancestorquarterl06londuoft_djvu.txt 

213 ‘The Coventry Leet Book’ http://www.archive.org/stream/coventryleetboo00unkngoog#page/n57/mode/1up 

214 A. 10827 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64431 



217 A.10408 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64419 

218 Mediaeval Seals http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-787-1/dissemination/pdf/BAJ055_PDFs/BAJ055_A03_tremlett.pdf 

219 A History of County Warwick Volume 6 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57119 

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is possibly on account of the associated peculiar but unspecified reasons that Robert Hugford persuaded Richard Revell to part 

with the manor of Emscote in 1408 in exchange for properties at Gaydon and Burton Dassett (Warwickshire) and at Dunton 

(Leicestershire). 222 

An article in ‘The Ancestor’ draws attention to two deeds dated September 19 th 1406, as follows: 223 

‘An agreement of 1420 is found both in French (A. 8470) and in Latin (A. 10408) with slight variations. Attention 

may be directed to it, because in the English version the latter Richard Ryvell, the prospective bridegroom, is described as 

' son-in-law ' of William Attilbrough, the mayor of Coventry ; the abstract of the French one (to which we are referred) styles 

him * stepson ' (fitz en ley}. This is obviously a point of some importance to genealogists, and we think that c stepson ' would be 

right in both cases, for Richard is expressly referred to as son of Joan, William's wife’. 

Summaries from BHOL are as follows: 

‘A8470. Counterpart indenture between William Attelburgh, mayor of Coventry, of the one part and Robert Huggeford of the 

other, being an agreement that Richard Rivell step-son (titz en ley),of the said William should with the consent of Joan his 

mother, wife of the said William, espouse Margery Robert's daughter in the parish church of Mulverton with all speed (en tut 

haste possible) and that the said Robert should thereupon pay 20l. to the said William to be employed for their benefit; and the 

said William granted that on the death of the said Joan an extent should be made of all the lands &c. wherein he had a life 

estate, and that from the total 6 marks should be deducted yearly during his life to find a chaplain to pray for the father and 

mother of the said Joan and all Christian souls, and that of the residue half should remain to his own use and the other half to 

the use of the said Richard and Margery. Done at Eddemescote, Saturday after St. Lucy the Virgin, 8 Henry IV. Seal (a buck's 

head caboshed), with legend 'R. Hugge- forde.' French’. 224 

‘A. 10408. Counterpart of agreement between William Attilburgh, mayor of Coventre, and Robert Huggeford, viz. that Richard 

Ryvell, son- in-law of the said William, with the assent of Joan his mother, William's wife, shall marry Margery, Robert's 

daughter, forthwith, at the parish church of Milverton; Robert, on the day of marriage, shall pay William, to the use of the said 

Richard and Margery, 10l. and 10l. at Easter following; all the lands, &c. wherein the said William has an estate for life shall 

be extended at their true value above drawbacks after the decease of the said Joan, and from the total 6 marks shall be yearly 

deducted to find a chaplain, to be nominated by the said William, to pray for the souls of her father, mother and ancestors and 

for all Christian souls during the said William's life; the residue to be equally divided, one half to William for life, the other to 

the use of the said Richard and Margery, with the reversion to them of the whole; feoffees of the respective moieties to be 

appointed; the muniments of the estate to be put in a chest with two keys, William to have one and Richard the other. 

Eddemescote, Saturday after St. Lucy the Virgin, 8 Henry IV. Two seals, one cracked, a buck's head caboshed with the legend 

'hugford.' See A. 8470. 225 

These events are further discussed by Dugdale but some of his original references are not legible in the digitised text. 226 

Dugdale also records that Richard Revell had a grant of free warren in all his demesne lands at Edmescote and at Milverton in 

1411, and that this remained with his male descendents until the time of Henry VII (i.e. until at least 1485). 

However, rather than in 1408 as stated in History of Parliament, 227 it seems as though some of these transactions did not take 

place until 1410 / 1 because in February of that year the Close Rolls record: 228 

‘Richard son of Geoffrey Reynald of Edmescote, otherwise called Richard Reyuell, otherwise Richard son of Joan daughter 

of William Ryuell, to Robert Huggeford esquire and Joyce his wife, and to the heirs and assigns of the said Robert. Quitclaim 

with warranty of the manor of Edmescote co. Warrewyke otherwise called Edlescote, and of all lands, rents, reversions and 

services in Edmescote and Mulverton late of William Ryuell, whereof they were enfeoffed by Thomas Knyght clerk, John Lee of 

Fulbroke, Thomas Ryuell of Edmescote and William Tallour of Warrewyke. Witnesses : Thomas Burdet, Thomas Lucy knights, 

Ralph Arderne, William Clopton, Thomas Gower. Dated 15 February 11 Henry IV. Memorandum of acknowledgment, 17 

February’. 

At much the same date Richard Revell acquired property in Coventry, as follows: 

220 ‘A Dictionary of English Surnames’ By Percy Hide Reaney, Richard Middlewood Wilson 

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fPoujUPs3hYC&pg=RA1-PA68&lpg=RA1- 

PA68&dq=%22william+brun%22&source=web&ots=RVl_QDV36m&sig=dbk2- 

Z30lUDwzspBRtEK4oQaeGo&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA1232,M1 

221 The Ancient and Present State of Glocestershire p. 109 http://www.hawkesburyhistory.com/Atkyns/atkins106_130.pdf. 

222 History of Parliament http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/hugford-robert-1411 

223 "The Ancestor; a quarterly review of county and family history, heraldry and antiquities" 

http://www.archive.org/stream/ancestorquarterl06londuoft/ancestorquarterl06londuoft_djvu.txt 


225 A.10408 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64419 

226 The antiquities of Warwickshire page 187 by Dugdale http://www.archive.org/stream/antiquitiesofwar00dugd#page/186/mode/2up 

227 History of Parliament http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/hugford-robert-1411 


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‘Indenture being a feoffment by Robert Huggeford to Richard Reynald, otherwise called Richard Ryvell and Margery, his wife, 

and the heirs begotten between them, with reversion in default to himself, of a tenement in the suburb of Warwick, at the head of 

the great bridge, in the street leading from the bridge to St. Nicholas' church wherein William Deyster dwells between the Aven 

and Walter Pecche's tenement. Witnesses:—John Brome, and others (named). Warwick, Sunday after St. Valentine, 11 Henry IV. 

Seal (a buck's head, cabossed; with, between the attires, 'r,' and below 'Huggeforde'). 

Memorandum endorsed of enrolment on the dorse of the Close Roll in February of the said year’. 229 

Carpenter lists Robert Hugford of Emscote as a member of the Coventry landed gentry last recorded in 1411. 230 

had died by March 28 th 1416 and the manor of Emscote had passed to her son and heir Thomas Huggeford. 231 

His wife Joyce 

A document dated 1411 has been summarised as: 

‘Richard son and heir of John Ryvell, tenant in reversion of lands in Buckby to William Attulburgh of Coventry, merchant, 

tenant for life: Licence to grant leases’. 232 

However, what appears to be the same document is presented as follows in BHOL: 

‘A. 8446. Indenture being a licence by Richard son and heir of Joan Ryvell of Bukby, the reversioner, to William Attulburgh of 

Coventre, merchant, the tenant for life of lands &c. in Bukby, co. Northampton, to grant leases for term of his, the said 

William's, life, or at will, with provision contained in them that, in whatever year the said William should chance to die (ab hac 

ralle miserie transire), the said tenants might cut, &c. and carry their crops then in the ground to the grange, 'le Shepene' and 'le 

Heyhous' of the manor of Bukby, there to be ground &c., paying to him, the said John, or his heirs, the rents they were used to 

pay to the said William. Witnesses:— John Goot, mayor, Nicholas Dodenhale and Peter Weston, bailiffs of Coventry and others 

(named). Coventre, 4 February, 12 Henry IV. Seal, broken’. 233 

In 1412 Richard Revell is recorded as leasing property, as follows: 234 

‘Indenture of demise by Richard Ryvell of Geydon, and Margery his wife, to Robert Webbe of Derset, and Katharine his wife, 

for their lives, from Lady Day, A.D. 1415, of a messuage in Chepyngderset, at 5s. rent. Monday after the Purification, 13 Henry 

IV’. 

In 1417 he is recorded as appointing attorneys, as follows: 235 

‘Letter of general attorney from Richard Ryvell of Geydon to William Attulburgh, the elder, of Coventre, and Thomas Ryvell, of 

Edmuscote. Coventre, Wednesday after St. Peter and St. Paul the Apostles, 4 Henry V’. 

The identity of Thomas Revell is uncertain, but discussed more extensively below. 

In May 1423 Richard Ryvell received from William Attilburgh numerous documents that once belonged to Richard’s mother 

and which relate to her holding of the manor of Buckeby, 236 as follows: 

‘A. 10827. Indenture, being the memorandum of the delivery, 25 May, 10 Henry V, in the presence of John Esturton, mayor of 

Coventre, Henry Breux, and Robert Melburn, bailiffs, Richard Southam, master of the gild of the Holy Trinity, St. Mary, and St. 

John the Baptist, of Coventre, Thomas Wildegrys, master of the gild of Corpus Christi and St. Nicholas, of Coventre, and others 

(named), by William Attilburgh of Coventre to Richard Ryvell of the same, of fourteen score of charters, writings and 

muniments, sealed and unsealed, touching the manor of Buckeby, co. Northampton, of the inheritance of the said Richard; which 

charters, &c. he had by the delivery of Joan his late wife. Seal.’. 

In 1424 the Coventry Leet Book makes its first reference to Richard Revell resident Erle Strete, Coventry, for which he is taxed 

1s-0d. 237 This has increased to 1s-8d by 1430, 238 and 2s-0d by 1434. 239 He is listed as ‘gentleman’ when taxed in 1436. 240 


230 Locality and polity: a study of Warwickshire landed society, 1401–1499. By Christine Carpenter page 658 

http://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ybbHUOn0zPYC&oi=fnd&pg=PR13&dq=%22Locality+and+Polity%22%2BCarpenter&ots=qquD 

Ld-4R8&sig=HDpCNhtmQH7BNTOM2kx6FXTKM9Y#v=snippet&q=malory&f=false 

231 Fine Rolls http://www.archive.org/stream/calendaroffiner14greauoft/calendaroffiner14greauoft_djvu.txt 

232 E 42/168 

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=6086799&FullDetails=True&Gsm=2007-07- 

10&j=1 




236 BHOL https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64431 

237 ‘The Coventry Leet Book’ http://www.archive.org/stream/coventryleetboo00unkngoog#page/n104/mode/1up/search/ryvel 

238 ‘The Coventry Leet Book’ http://www.archive.org/stream/coventryleetboo00unkngoog#page/n142/mode/1up/search/ryvel 

239 ‘The Coventry Leet Book’ http://www.archive.org/stream/coventryleetboo00unkngoog#page/n179/mode/1up/search/revel 

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It is clear from a demise dated August 20 th 1428 that his wife Margery has died, as follows: 241 

‘Demise by Richard Ryvell of Coventre, gentleman, and Joan, daughter and heiress of the said Richard and Margery his late 

wife, to William Noote of Warrewyk, and Margaret his wife, for sixty years, of a tenement and garden in Warrewyk, in the street 

of St. Nicholas the bishop, at the end of the bridge, extending to the water culled 'Avoue.' 20 August, 6 Henry VI’. 

This must correspond to the property which Richard Ryvell acquired in 1411, see above. 

In 1428 an inquisition relating to Long Buckby records ‘De Ricardo Ryvell pro tercia parte ud. f. ibidem, quondam Willelmi 

Ryvell. Subs. ij.8. mj.rj.’, 242 which clearly refers to this individual, and it must be this property that he leases in 1431, as 

follows: 243 

‘A. 9852. Indenture made on the morrow of St. Vincent the Martyr, 9 Henry VI, being a demise by Richard Rewell, 'jentilman,' 

of Buckeby, to John Underwode, Thomas Mone, John Robyn, William Tynche, William Blaby, and William Rote, of the same, of 

all the lands, &c., adjacent to his manor in all the fields of Buckeby, with two crofts 'in the Westzardis,' reserving to himself a 

hill called 'Rowelhylle,' with the 'frisses' below it (cum omnibus firsis sub predicta monte); also demise to them of his great barn 

and 'long hous'; term, six years from Michaelmas; rent, 6½ marks, &c. Fragments of seals’. 

It would appear that this is a continuation of his maternal grandfather William Revell’s practice of leasing out his manorial lands 

to a consortium of his tenants, one of those named here (John Robyn ) appearing to be a descendent of William Robyn named in 

1378. 

A feoffment dated 1438 implies that he has married second an Agnes, as follows: 244 

‘Feoffment by William Osbarne of Asscheby Ligger, 'gentilman,' and John Osbarne of Lilleburne to Richard Ryvell of Bukkeby, 

esquire, and Agnes his wife and his heirs assigns of the manor of Bukkeby, with the land &c. in Bukkeby which they had by his 

gift. Monday after the Finding of the Holy Cross, 16 Henry VI.’. Ashby St Ledgers is some four miles west and Lilbourne some 

seven miles north of Long Buckby. 

On April 18 th 1449 a ‘Richard Rybell’ plausibly this individual is recorded as making a grant, as follows: 245 

(37) John Heton, Esquire, John Grene, Richard Rybell and William Pere, give, grant, and confirm to Thomas Wermyngton, of 

Coventre, and Robert Wermyngton, of Haverbergh, a messuage in Haverbergh, which they lately held conjointly with Laurence 

Kay, now deceased, by the gift and feoffment of the aforesaid Thomas Wermington and Robert Wermington, by a deed of feesimple 

(per cartam simplicis feodi), to hold, etc., etc. 

Witnesses : William Neell, John Laughton, John Person, John Stonton, Richard Stonton, and others. 

Dated at Haverbergh, 27 Henry VI., * die Veneris proximo post festum Pasche’. ‘Haverbergh’ is probably Market Harborough. 

In 1455 there is a record of a ‘Court of Richard Ryvell, esq., and Agnes his wife’ that mentions Buckby [Northamptonshire], 

Broadwell and Leamington Hastings [Warwickshire]. 246 Broadwell and Leamington Hastings are some 12 and 14 miles west of 

Long Buckby, respectively. 

Agnes Revell is recorded in 1460 as widowed. Richard’s children are dealt with in Part 3, but see also Thomas Revell, below. 

An obscure Thomas Ryvell of Edmuscote known also as Reynald and of Bukby ?–1388–1417–? 

There is a reference in 1408 to a Thomas Ryvell of Edmescote as follows: 

‘Confirmation by Richard son and heir of Joan, daughter of William Ryvell, of a grant by Richard Southard and John 

Happesford, of Coventre, merchants, Thomas Ryvell of Edmescote, and John Everdon of Coventre, 'hosyer,' to William 

240 Locality and polity: a study of Warwickshire landed society, 1401–1499. By Christine Carpenter 

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pyfaYFThAPcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Locality+and+polity:+a+study+of+Warwickshire+landed+society 

,+1401%E2%80%931499&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Fk__TveTI4Gw8QOqrrCoAQ&ved=0CDQQuwUwAA#v=onepage&q=rivell&f=false 

241 ‘A descriptive catalogue of ancient deeds in the Public Record Office’ 

242 Inquisitions and assessments relating to feudal aids, with other analogous documents preserved in the Public record office; A.D. 1284-1431; 

published by authority of H.M. principal secretary of state for the Home department’ 

243 A9852 http://www.archive.org/stream/descriptivecatal04greauoft#page/470/mode/2up/search/rewel 


245 http://www.archive.org/stream/marketharboroug00braggoog#page/n192/mode/1up/search/rybel 

246 SC 2/194/104 

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Attilburgh of Coventre, for his life, of the manor of Buckeby, the reversion of which, in fee, belongs to the said Richard son of 

Joan’. 247 

In 1410 / 1 he is referred to again in the Close Rolls: 

‘Richard son of Geoffrey Reynald of Edmescote, otherwise called Richard Reyuell, otherwise Richard son of Joan daughter 

of William Ryuell, to Robert Huggeford esquire and Joyce his wife, and to the heirs and assigns of the said Robert. Quitclaim 

with warranty of the manor of Edmescote co. Warrewyke otherwise called Edlescote, and of all lands, rents, reversions and 

services in Edmescote and Milverton late of William Ryuell, whereof they were enfeoffed by Thomas Knyght clerk, John Lee of 

Fulbroke, Thomas Ryuell of Edmescote and William Taillour of Warrewyke’. 248 

There is a further reference in 1417 to a Thomas Ryvell of Edmuscote who along with William Attulburgh the Elder received a 

letter of ‘general attorney’ from Richard Ryvell of Geydon. 249 

There is then gap in records of some 45 years and it is possible that these later records are to a different individual. 

In 1463 an Ancient Deed records: 250 

‘A. 8394. Feoffment by Thomas Reynolde of Buckeby, to Thomas Wylde, esquire, John Dyve, esquire, William Hyne, clerk, 

William Belgrave, 'gentilman,' and Richard Hyne, clerk, of all his lands, &c. in the town and fields of Buckeby. Buckeby, 5 April, 

2 Edward IV. Fragments of seal’. 

The O’Quinn Law Library at the University of Houston lists records from the Court of Common Pleas dated 1465 of a ‘Thomas 

Ryvel, gent. of Bukby’, who is the defendant with regard to three pleas of debt, two of which are clearly connected to the 

foregoing transaction. 251 These have been translated by Matt Tompkins as follows: 252 

‘CP40/814 img 389f: John Higford, esq., [in following entry called 'sheriff of Warks'], by his attorney, appeared on the 4th day 

against Thomas Ryvell [note spelling] of Bukby in Northants, 'Gentilman', in a plea that he render him £40 which he owes him 

and unjustly witholds etc. And he did not come, and the sheriff was ordered to summon him etc. And the sheriff now returns 

that he has nothing etc. Therefore he is to be taken to be here in the Quindene of Easter’. 

‘CP 40/814 img 1137d: William Catesby, knight, John Huggeford and John Dyve, by their attorney, appeared on the 4th day 

against Thomas Ryvell of Bukby in Northants, 'Gentilman', in a plea that he render them £40 which he owes them and unjustly 

witholds etc. And he did not come ... ... sheriff can't find him ...’. 

‘CP 40/814 img 1532 d: same as above, so far as I can see it’. 

Whether or not these records refer to one or two individuals is uncertain, but because the records span 57 years and Thomas 

would have been at least 77 in 1465 this span tends to suggest there are two. In fact, he would almost certainly be older because 

in 1408 he has acquired land previously held by William Revell in order to be able to enfeoff Richard son of Joan and 

Geoffrey in 1408. The gap of some 45 years also tends to suggest there are two individuals but the records may simply have 

been lost, or not recognised because of the multiplicity of surnames. The combination of the names ‘Edmescote’, ‘Ryvell’ and 

‘Reynolde’ and the association with Richard, Joan and Geoffrey d’Edmescote / Ryvell and Buckby strongly point to this 

Thomas or Thomases being related to them. 

Plausibly the earlier Thomas could be a son or other relative of William Revell of Buckby, and the later Thomas a relative of 

Richard, as follows: 

Thomas Revell retained land in Leicestershire as recorded in an undated record ‘Richard Ryvell of Buckby, gentleman to 

Thomas his son and heir: Grant of his land in Dunton (Bassett): Leic’. 253 Richard Revell married in 1407 and it is unlikely that 

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251 CP40 no814: Actions http://aalt.law.uh.edu/Indices/CP40Indices/CP40no814/CP40no814Action.htm 

252 Personal communication 

253 E 42/114 

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An obscure Simon Revell ?–1268–1310–? 

Although several Simon Revells appear in various pedigrees, the independent evidence for them is scant. In February 1288 / 9 it 

is recorded in an Inquisition Post Mortem held at Worcester that Richard Atchurch (Richard atte Church, Richard de la 

Chirchard) who was hanged for felony had been holding of Simon Renol (subsequently Simon Revel) a messuage at Suckley. 254 

Simon Revel is instructed in the Close Rolls on February 5 th 1291 / 2 to take seisin of the same property, 255 and seisin is 

recorded in a second IPM held March 28 th 1291 / 2. 256 A Simon Revel, Chaplain, is named in 1302 / 3 as a creditor of ‘Adam 

de ? Char', and Richard Bardulph, of Herefords’, 257 and it is plausible that one of the debtors is Adam de la Chirchard. Suckley 

is about 15 miles east from Hereford and nine miles west of Worcester, and some 50 to 70 miles west of the locations with which 

the Revells are commonly associated at this date. However, this is almost certainly the Sir Simon Rivel who was appointed in 

1303 as bailiff to Bishop William Ginsborough responsible for ‘the lands and manors in the county of Gloucester’, and is 

referred to as ‘Simon Revel, clerk’ in June 1306. 

In 1306 there is an entry ‘Simon de Edmundescote, on the title of patrimony, approved by the dean of Tredington’. 258 According 

to Reynolds Register an individual of this name was in 1310 ordained priest from the diocese of Worcester, as follows: 259 

‘Simon de Edmundescote, t. 5 m., of the gift of Ymaygne Vy, p. D. Warwick, swore, content’. 

Bishop William Ginsborough (Gainsbrough, Gainsborough) who was appointed in 1303 and who died in 1307 is thought to have 

been from Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, also had land in Warwick. Bishop Ginsborough was succeeded by Bishop Reynolds. 

It is thus plausible that Sir Simon Revell is connected to the Revells of Warwickshire, possibly a brother or other relative of 

William Revell of Newbold Revell. 

A Simon Rivel is mentioned in the Fine Rolls in connection with land at Keleby in Lincolnshire in 1309, 260 and a Simon Ryvel 

is mentioned in 1309 (at Tipperary) 261 and 1312 (at Dublin) in ‘Calendar of the Justiciary Rolls, or, Proceedings in the Court of 

the Justiciar of Ireland’ preserved in the Public Record Office of Ireland, but these may be different individuals. 

Possibly this is the Simon shown (incorrectly in view of his date of birth) as the third son of Sir William Revell, and the 

supposed ancestor of the Derbyshire Revells, but the only other reference to him so far located is in the Heralds Visitation of 

1546 as cited in a book. 262 There would have to be at least one, and probably two further generations between this Simon and 

the well-documented Thomas Revell of Higham (Derbyshire) who was born in the period 1420 to 1430 (see Part 4). 

At Cork, a Nich Ryuel is named in 1307, 263 a Thomas Ryuel (junior) is mentioned there in 1307, 264 and a Thomas Ryvel in 

1311. 265 At Waterford, an Andrew Ryuel is named in 1307, 266 and a John Ryvel in 1312. 267 A Roger Ryvel is recorded in 

1307 as holding land at Incheganelan, 268 and possibly the same person a witness at Kilkenny. 269 A Giles Reuell is mentioned in 

the Patent Rolls in 1281 as a nominated Attorney to serve in Ireland. 270 A record dated 1306 refers to an Andrew Revell who 

paid rent to the Prior of St Bartholomew’s in West Smithfield, 271 but this is unlikely to be Andrew recorded in Kilkenny. 

An Adam Revell, presumably a relative of Simon, is recorded at Suckleye in a deed of exchange with ‘Thomas son of Thomas 

de Hanleye’ dated March 12 th 1307 / 8, 272 and as a witness in 1320. 273 It might be the same Adam Revel, who in 1300 is a 

witness to a grant referring to property in Bath, 274 and who in 1331, witnessed a document bearing the seal of ‘Robert de 

Wynesmor of Lega’. 275 (Lega = Lee or Leigh). Leigh is ca 5 miles from Suckley. A Roberto de Rymel is listed for Ovenbury 

254 IPM http://www.archive.org/stream/inquisitionespo00socigoog#page/n75/mode/1up/search/revel 

255 Close Rolls http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarclosero01changoog#page/n230/mode/1up 

256 IPM http://www.archive.org/stream/inquisitionespo00socigoog#page/n84/mode/1up/search/revel 


4968571&CATLN=7&Highlight=%2CREVEL&accessmethod=0 

258 Register of Bishop William Ginsborough http://melocki.org.uk/registers/1303_Ginsborough.html 

259 Reynolds Register http://www.archive.org/stream/publicationsdugd09dugduoft#page/112/mode/2up 

260 Fine Rolls http://www.archive.org/stream/calendaroffinero02greauoft#page/42/mode/2up/search/rivel 

261 Calendar of the Justiciary Rolls http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofjustic00ireluoft#page/138/mode/1up 

262 ‘Historical Narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye Families’ 

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3Atexts%20AND%20collection%3Ablc%20AND%20subject%3A%22Stacy%20Family 

%22 

263 Calendar of the Justiciary Rolls http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofjustic02irel#page/398/mode/2up/search/ryuel 





268 Calendar of Inquisitions http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924011387820#page/n375/mode/2up/search/ryvel 

269 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlkik/history/cotterell.html 

270 Patent Rolls Edward I, vol. 2, p. 7 

271 The Records of St Bartholomew’s Priory http://www.archive.org/stream/recordsofstbarth01webb#page/428/mode/2up 

272 MS 3688 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=143-ms3688&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 

273 MS 3688 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=143-ms3688&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 

274 ‘Ancvient Deeds belonging to the Corporation of Bath’ 

http://www.archive.org/stream/ancientdeedsbelo00corp#page/140/mode/2up/search/revel 

275 44M69/C/67 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=041-jervoise_1&cid=-1#-1 

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in the Lay Subsidy Roll for Worcestershire dated ca 1280, 276 but no references to the family are to be found in the 1332, 1346 or 

1358 Lay Subsidy Rolls for Worcestershire. 277, 278 Ovenbury is ca 20 miles from Suckley. 

276 Lay Subsidy Roll for the County of Worcester http://www.archive.org/stream/laysubsidyrollfo00greauoft#page/n5/mode/2up 

277 Lay Subsidy Roll for the County of Worcester http://www.archive.org/stream/laysubsidyrollad00greauoft#page/64/mode/2up 

278 Lay Subsidy Roll for the County of Worcester http://www.archive.org/stream/worcest1346sub00greauoft#page/42/mode/2up 

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Isolated Cameos 

John Revell of Rockingham Forest 

Another John Revell is recorded in Rockingham Forest (Rokyngham, Rokingham) in the period ca 1390 to 1421, for example in 

1390, ‘Grant, for life, to John Reuel of Bolewyk of the office of ranger of the bailiwicks of Brykstok and Clyve in Rokyngham 

forest, if no other person holds it by the king's grant. By p.s’, 279 in 1393 ‘Appointment of John Wakerley keeper of the bailiwick 

of Kyngesclyve, John Renell and Geoffre Pyeke to arrest carpenters and other workmen, carters and carts for the fencing of 

queen Anne's park of Clyve and set them to work at her charges’, 280 and in 1399 ‘Exemplification, at the request of John Reuel, 

of the tenour of the enrolment of letters patent dated 14January18 Richard II, granting to him for life the office of ranger of the 

bailiwicks of Brykstok and Clyve within the forest of Rokyngham. These letters have been accidentally lost, as John Rogers, 

squire, has taken oath in Chancery’. 281 Letters Patent were issued again, 282 and in 1404 the Patent Roll states ‘Commission to 

John Wakirley and John Reuell to take carpenters and other workmen for the emendation of the park of the king's consort Joan, 

queen of England, of Kyngesclyve, co. Northampton and, carters and carriage for the same’. 283 In 1421 the Patent Rolls record 

a commission for the arrest of ’one called Rynell of Rokingham’. 284 

In 1397 a John Ryvell, with others is instructed to ‘arrest ditchers and other workmen for the construction and repair of the 

dykes and enclosures of the king’s laundes of Benyfeld and Birstokein the counties of Leicester, Northampton, Bedford and 

Huntingdon’, 285 and might well be the same individual. Benefield, Northamptonshire, is some six miles from Rockingham. 

In 1405 a John Ryvel, dyer, is recorded as one of the two Bailiffs for Northampton. 286 It is possible that this is the John Rivell 

of Northampton who was described as a Bailiff in 1405 / 6 and as M.P. in 1407. 287 A John Rynel who holds a tenement in 

Ludyngton is mentioned in 1408, 288 and again in 1448. 289 Ludyngton is Lyddington about three miles from Rockingham and 

these grants refer to a tenement of John Rynell on Crekeslane (Crekys Lane). The 1448 record might refer to a descendent of 

the John mentioned in 1408. 

On April 28 th 1490 the Patents Rolls has a record: ‘Richard Wodward of Kingescliff, co. Northampton, ‘husbondman’ for not 

appearing before the same when sued with Thomas Doraunt the younger, Thomas Doraunt the elder, ‘husbondmen’ and John 

Cotyngham, ‘laborer’ all of Kingescliff, to answer Thomas Ryvell touching a trespass’. 290 Thornton in his thesis entitled ‘Rural 

Society in the Manor Courts of Northamptonshire, 1350-1500’ (citing 115T NA: PRO SC21194n2 m. 4, Court Easter 10 Hen. 

VII) draws attention to a 1495 ‘presentment of ruinous buildings’ including one such at Brigstock belonging to Thomas 

Ryvell. 291 

Geddington is about five miles from Rockingham and they are about 10 miles from Market Harborough and roughly equidistant 

from Norman’s Cross and Long Buckby. A Richard Rybell recorded at Market Harborough in 1449, 292 and a Thomas Revell a 

beneficiary in the will of Thomas Shepherd, husbandman, of Wilbarston, Northamptonshire, 293 in 1545 might also be connected. 

Wilbarston is some five miles from Rockingham. In 1547 a John Revell, is one of two Chaplains mentioned in connection with 

the manor of Noseley. 294 A Nicholas Revell is holding land at Oundle in 1550. 

There is a cluster of records at Saint John the Baptist, Peterborough, in the late 16 th century. An Arthure Revell is recorded as 

the father of William Revell (baptised march 26 th 1581 / 2), Elizabeth Revell (baptised March 7 th 1584 / 5) and Jane Revell 

(baptised October 19 th 1588). A Vernard Reuell was baptised on June 9 th 1593 but his father was recorded only as Reuell. An 

Elizabeth Revell married Robert Watson on April 13 th 1602 and a Jane Revell married Thomas Hawllye on June 10 th 1613, 

possibly Arthure Revell’s daughters. A William Revell, possibly Arthur’s son, is recorded as the father of Elizabeth Revell 

(baptised December 21 st 1609 buried July 12 th 1611), George Revell (baptised August 28 th 1612), Elizabeth Revell (baptised 

February 14 th 1615 / 6) and Agnes Revell (baptised August 18 th 1622). 

279 Patent Rolls Richard II, vol. 4, p. 180 


281 Patent Rolls Henry IV, vol. 1, p. 113 



284 Patent Rolls http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/h5v2/body/Henry5vol2page0328.pdf 

285 Patent Rolls http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/r2v6/body/Richard2vol6page0192.pdf 

286 Records of the Borough of Northampton http://www.archive.org/stream/recordsofborough02nortuoft#page/556/mode/2up/search/revel 

287 http://www.girders.net/index.php?dir=Ri%2F 

288 Th 1689 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=154-th_1&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 

289 Th 1691 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=154-th_1&cid=1719&kw=rynell#1719 

290 Patent Rolls p. 289 http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/FHMedieval/id/85406/rec/8 

291 Thornton,M.J. Rural Society in the Manor Courts of Northamptonshire, 1350-1500, PhD Thesis, University of Leicester 2004 

https://lra.le.ac.uk/handle/2381/4387 

292 Market Harborough Parish Records http://www.archive.org/stream/marketharboroug00braggoog#page/n192/mode/1up/search/rybel 

293 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries http://www.archive.org/stream/northamptonshir05unkngoog#page/n249/mode/1up/search/revell 

294 Manor of Noseley http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OIjKiJg6- 

oQJ:www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/NoselyPagesfromXIIpartII- 

6.pdf+%22John+Revell%22+%22Great+Easton%22&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk 

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John Revell married Elisabeth Roberts at Rothwell on February 1 st 1635 / 6, and an Elizabeth Revell married William Measure 

at Maxey on April 23 rd 1640. Maxey is eight miles east of Stamford and eight miles north of Peterborough. 

It is not possible to determine at present whether these Revells are connected to those of Warwickshire or those of the eastern 

counties, particularly at Norman’s Cross, Yaxley and Folksworth — see Part 11, but the earliest John Revell of Rockingham 

must have been born not later than 1370. John Revell son of William Revell of Buckeby and Ellen seems too early, and John 

Revell of Coventry, mercer, fits the date of birth but is of a different character. At the end of the 13 th century Rockingham 

forest extended north-east to Stamford and Oundle the latter only seven miles from Folksworth where Revells of uncertain origin 

are documented early in the 13 th century, and again in 1439. 295 It is interesting to note that in 1331 the castle and town of 

Hertford, the manor of Kyngsclyve (Northamptonshire), and the manor of Shene (Surrey) were all granted to Queen Isabella, 296 

possibly suggesting a Revell connection. 

William Revell, Bell-founder, extant 1320–1340–1358–? 

A William Revell is clearly documented as a bell-founder, probably with a foundry in the City of London, and responsible for 

297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 

church bells in many parts of the country, including Durham, Suffolk, Norfolk, Kent, Surrey and Wiltshire, 303 and surprisingly also at St Dochdwy’s Church, at Llandough-juxta-Cowbridge in Glamorgan. 304 His name appears on bells in 

the period 1340 to 1357, 305, 306 for example in the Church of St Michael at Heckfield there is ‘a bell by William Revel of 

London, ca 1350’, 307 but this practice of incising the maker’s name declined after 1357. Others are located at Norwich St 

Lawrence, The Blessed Virgin Mary at Hassingham, Rowdham St Andrew (all in Norfolk), and Longfield in Kent. However, if 

he is connected to these Revells it does seem strange that there is no mention of him in connection with the bells of 

Leicestershire, Northamptonshire or Warwickshire. William the Bell-founder’s origins remain obscure. 

If it is correct that his name appears on bells from as early as 1340, then it suggests that he had already completed his 

apprenticeship by that date and was established with his own foundry. This in turn suggests that he was born before 1320 and 

perhaps about the turn of the century (compared with an estimate of not later than ca 1325 for William son of Robert of Bukkeby 

This William Revell is recorded as an executor and beneficiary of the bell-founder William de Raughton, who was first recorded 

in 1316, and whose will is dated November 11 th 1356, 308, 309 and he is almost certainly the William Revell paying rent at St 

Botolph’s Aldgate, in Houndsditch, London, in 1358. 310 Billiter (Belleyetere) Street in Aldgate was the centre of bell-making, 311 

312, 313 

and at least two contemporary Bellfounders (William Land and Culverdon) operated at Houndsditch. 

From an examination of the lettering used by William Revell it would appear that he was connected with the bell-founders 

Richard (Ralph) Wimbis(h) (active 1290–1315), Peter de Weston (active 1328–1347) and William Schep (active 1347–9). 316 William de Raughton is a stepson of Peter de Weston who married Matilda the widow of Robert de Raughton. 317 The 

association with Richard (Ralph) Wimbish is of considerable interest because in 1312 Giles (Egidius) Revell, both father and 

314, 315, 

295 Patent Rolls http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarpatentr15offigoog#page/n335/mode/1up 

296 Patent Rolls http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarpatentr05offigoog#page/n165/mode/1up/search/clyve 

297 ‘Surrey Bells and London Bellfounders’ by J.C.L. Stahlschmidt published Elliot Stock, London 1884 

http://www.archive.org/stream/surreybellslondo00stahuoft#page/74/mode/2up 



299 ‘The Church Bells of Kent’ http://www.archive.org/stream/churchbellsofken00stah#page/10/mode/2up 

300 ‘The Church Bells of Suffolk’ http://www.archive.org/stream/churchbellsofsuf00raveuoft#page/n29/mode/2up 

301 ‘The Church Bells of England’ http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924017579099#page/n211/mode/2up/search/revel 

302 ‘Church Bells of Wiltshire’ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ALcNAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22church+bells%22+rival&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0&client=firefoxa&cd=13#v=onepage&q=revel&f=false 

303 ‘The Church Bells of Norfolk’ http://www.archive.org/stream/churchbellsnorf00lesgoog#page/n70/mode/1up/search/revel 

304 Transactions of the Glamorgan Local Hstory Society http://cylchgronaucymru.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1169834/llgcid:1174775/llgc-id:1174901/get650/Revel 

305 ‘The Church Bells of England’ http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924017579099#page/n341/mode/2up/search/revel 

306 ‘English Bellfounders’ http://www.archive.org/stream/archaeologicaljo50brit#page/168/mode/2up/search/schep 

307 A History of the County of Hampshire Volume 4 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56743 



309 Calendar of Wills http://www.archive.org/stream/p1calendarofwill00londuoft#page/694/mode/2up 

310 883. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64086 

311 ‘Church Bells’ http://www.archive.org/stream/churchbells00walt#page/24/mode/2up 

312 ‘The Church bells of Kent’ http://www.archive.org/stream/churchbellsofken00stah#page/10/mode/2up 

313 ‘The Church bells of Kent’ http://www.archive.org/stream/churchbellsofken00stah#page/50/mode/2up 

314 Surrey Bells and London Bellfounders’ by J.C.L. Stahlschmidt published Elliot Stock, London 1884 

http://www.archive.org/stream/surreybellslondo00stahuoft#page/n245/mode/2up/search/revel 

315 Surrey Bells and London Bellfounders’ by J.C.L. Stahlschmidt published Elliot Stock, London 1884 

http://www.archive.org/stream/surreybellslondo00stahuoft#page/n247/mode/2up/search/revel 

316 Archaeological Journal http://www.archive.org/stream/archaeologicaljo50brit#page/168/mode/2up/search/schep 

317 ‘The Church Bells of Buckinghamshire’ http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924011346453#page/n51/mode/2up/search/revel 

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son, are recorded in a transaction with Richard de Wymbissh and Johanna his wife in Cavendish, Suffolk, 318 and a Giles Revell 

is also associated with the Revells of Berkshire in 1291. 319 See also Part 10 and Part 11. 

William Revell, a cleric 

It is by no means certain that these records all refer to the same individual. In 1342 the Papal Registers contain an entry: 320 

‘To the bishop of St. Davids. The like in regard to William Rivel, the illegitimate son of a married man’. The term ‘the like’ 

refers back to ‘Mandate to dispense [William Rivel] ‘the son of a priest, so that he may be ordained and hold a benefice’. 

In 1374 there is a record of a William Ryvell, priest at Sandridge in Hertfordshire, 321 and he could well be the Rector of St. 

Nicholas, Hertford, Lincoln diocese also referred to in 1374). 322 The later records of a William Revel associated with the 

Cathedral Church of London paying Poll Tax of 3 s 11½ d in the period 1379 to 1381, 323 and a William de Ryvell, clerk, to 

whom, in part, the manor of Little Burley was granted in 1390, 324 and the priest at Wellingborough in Northamptonshire 

(1407) 325 might also be the same individual. 

William Revell of Oxford ?–1365–1385–1401–? 

The Fine Rolls dated 1385 contain an instruction to a William Ryvele ‘to levy and collect the said tenth and fifteenth …’ for the 

town of Oxford, 326 suggesting that he was born no later than ca 1365. On August 11 th 1386 he is named in connection with an 

Inquisition ad quod dampnum about tofts and cartilage. 

On April 15 th 1391 he witnessed a grant of a messuage by William Chyselhamptone to Robert his son, 327 on June 15 th 1396 he 

witnessed a grant by John le Sauser, 328 and on December 8 th 1396 he witnessed the sale of a tenement to William 

Chyselhamptone. 329 He was Bailiff in 1398 and 1399. 330 331 The Cartulary of the Hospital of St John the Baptist records 

William Ryuell as a witness to the lease of a tenement to John of the Chanber on September 29 th 1398, 332 and to a grant by John 

garsyndone and his wife on January 4 th 1400 / 1. 333 On September 29 th 1400 he witnessed a grant by William Chyselhamptone 

to Robert his son of all his lands in Northgate hundred, 334 and he is recorded at least eight times in the Latin text, The mediaeval 

archives of Oxford University with regard to the Statutes of Labourers, Proceedings of the Justices of the Peace at Oxford, 335 

during much the same period while Richard Garston was Mayor at various dates between 1382 and 1411. 336 

His identity and connection if any to the Revells of Warwickshire is not known, but it is possible that he is the William Revell 

of Byfield who married Isabelle, thought to be a son of William of Bukkeby and Ellen — see above. 

A John Ryvell recorded as the Bursar of University College, Oxford, in 1411, 337 is possibly connected 

318 Suffolk Feet of Fines http://www.archive.org/stream/acalendarfeetfi00histgoog#page/n145/mode/1up/search/egidius 

319 C 241/15/116 

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/searchresults.asp?SearchInit=0&txtsearchterm=reuel&txtfirstdate=&txtlastdate=&txtrestriction= 

&hdnsorttype=Reference&image1.x=0&image1.y=0&image1=GO 

320 Calendar of Papal Registers http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=96256 

321 Parish Priests of Sandridge http://www.thrale.com/history/english/sandridge/historic_sandridge_11.php 

322 ‘Canterbury and York series’ 

323 The Church in London 1375–1392 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=36015 

324 ‘A guide to Burghley house, Northamptonshire ‘ By Thomas Blore 

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rRMHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA4&dq=ryvell&lr=&as_brr=1&client=firefox-a#PPA4,M1 

325 ‘The history and antiquities of Wellingborough’ By John Cole 

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0RQHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA57&dq=ryvell&lr=&as_brr=1&client=firefox-a#PPA57,M1 

326 http://www.archive.org/stream/calendaroffinero10greauoft#page/118/mode/2up/search/ryvel 

327 Oxford Deeds of Balliol College http://www21.us.archive.org/stream/oxforddeedsofbal00ball#page/46/mode/2up 



330 Oxford Historical Society http://www.archive.org/stream/publications53socigoog#page/n37/mode/1up 

331 Oxford Historical Society http://www.archive.org/stream/munimentacivitat71oxfouoft#page/176/mode/2up/search/ryvel 

332 A Cartulary of the Hospital of St John the Baptist http://www.archive.org/stream/cartularyofhospi01saltuoft#page/6/mode/2up/search/ryuel 

333 A Cartulary of the Hospital of St John the Baptist http://www.archive.org/stream/cartularyofhospi01saltuoft#page/104/mode/2up/search/ryuel 


335 The mediaeval archives of the University of Oxford 

http://www.archive.org/stream/mediaevalarchive73univuoft/mediaevalarchive73univuoft_djvu.txt 

336 Mayors of Oxford http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/mayors/1348_1485/garston_richard_1382_1411.htm 

337 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Castell 

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Isabell Revell daughter of Richard 

The Visitation of Middlesex records the pedigree of ‘Harrisonn of Braintford’ 338 and the Visitation of Northamptonshire the 

pedigree of ‘Harrisonn of Gobion’s Manor’, 339 both of which refer to a John Harrysonn marrying an Elizabeth Nynesor. The 

Visitation of Middlesex shows Elizabeth Nynesor to be the daughter of Richard Nynesor, the son of Henerey Nynesor, the son of 

another Henery Nynesor (son of William) who married an Isabell Revell, daughter of a Richard Revell, but unfortunately there 

are no dates beyond a somewhat cryptic statement on the Gobion’s Manor pedigree ‘C14 Commences five generations earlier’ 

above the entry for John Harryson’s marriage to Elizabeth Nynesor, Isabell’s great granddaughter. 

There is an unconfirmed report of an Elizabeth Nynesor born ca 1484 in Northamptonshire who married John Harrisonn about 

1503, 340 and their children are apparently associated with Derbyshire. Others susggest she was born 1435 and died 1470, 341 but 

all these dates must be treated with caution. 

This John Harrisonn’s parents are William Harrisonn and Jane Columbell, daughter and heir of Henry Columbell. There are 

connections between the Derbyshire Revells and Columbells — see Part 4 — but whether these particular Columbells are 

connected is not known. These Harrisonns originate from Kendall, Westmorland. 

Although the pedigrees do not give precise dates it has been possible to locate authentic records of several of the seven great 

grandchildren of Elizabeth Nynesor and John Harrisonn shown in this pedigree, as follows: 

Richard Pell married Ursula Harrisonn at Stowe-Nine-Churches (near Towcester, Northamptonshire) on December 18 th 1569, 

and Thomas Swingleherst married Anne Harrisonn there on October 25 th 1574, suggesting these Harrisonn daughters were 

probably born about 1549 and 1554, respectively. Their brother Thomas married Elizabeth Bernard but the exact date has not 

been located. It is thought to be 1581. 342 

Their older sister, Elizabeth Harrisonn, married George Sheffield of Seaton, Rutland, who was holding Down Hall in 1556, 

Gobion’s Manor in 1558, and Up Hall in 1568. Their son Richard Sheffield died in 1602. George Sheffield’s mother Margaret 

née Morgan was buried at Seaton on June 14 th 1562. George Sheffield was Sheriff of Rutland in 1588 and was buried September 

4 th 1618. 343, 344, 345 The Sheffield pedigree in the Visitation of Rutland shows Elizabeth Harrisonn as of Stow and records nine 

children but does not define the date of her marriage. 346 The baptisms of the fourth to seventh children are given in the Seaton 

parish records in the period 1563 to 1570 with the eighth in 1579. Taken collectively, this information suggests that Elizabeth 

Harisonn probably married about 1556 and was born about 1536, which fits well with her being the oldest child of Robert 

Harrisonn of Stow and Bridget FitzGeffery. 347 A Bridget Harrison who was buried at Irthlingborough St Peter’s on July 27 th 

1565 is probably Elizabeth’s mother. Elizabeth was buried Seaton on July 23 rd 1603. 

It has not been possible to find any dated records of Elizabeth Harisonn’s mother, Bridgett FitzGeffery but a birth ca 1515 would 

seem reasonable. Isabell Revell is six generations earlier and almost certainly was born no later than ca 1400 and possibly as 

early as the period 1330 to 1350. Her father Richard Revell might thus have beem born in the period 1300 to 1380. 

There are no really promising candidates for her father. Perusal of Table 1b identifies the following: 

1. Richard Revell outlaw of Stafford 1307, and of Bishop's Itchington (Warwickshire) 1325 / 6 and born not later than ca 

1287; 

2. Richard Revell son of Godfrey extant 1310 to 1317 associated with Hatfield Regis and Bengeo; and 

3. Richard Revell / Reynolds born ca 1386 who lived to at least 1460 

Stowe-Nine-Churches is some eight miles east of Byfeld and that geographic association suggests a possible link to William 

Revell who married Isabel, see above, and candidate 3 above would be William and Isabel’s nephew if the attributions in 

Table 2 are correct. It would be eminently plausible that Richard Revell might name a daughter Isabel, but there is no evidence 

to suggest that these proposals are better than plausible speculation. 

The Nynesor family are mostly associated with the area around Levens across the river Kent from Ninezergh, both in 

Westmorland, some four miles from Kendal, and some 40 miles from Skipton the nearest point with a well established group of 

Revells at that period. Records are surprisingly sparse, and investigating this family is made particularly difficult by the great 

variation in the spelling of the name, for example Neansor, Niandesergh, Niandsherg, Niandeshergh, Niendesergh, 

338 Middlesex Pedigrees http://www.archive.org/stream/middlesexpedigre65mund#page/148/mode/2up/search/revel 

339 Visitation of Northamptonshire http://www.archive.org/stream/visitationsofnor00harvrich#page/98/mode/2up/search/nynesor 

340 http://www.ourfamilyhistories.org/getperson.php?personID=I105803&tree=00. 

341 http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/i/g/Corrine-M-Wiggins/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0256.html 

342 Commentaries upon the History of Benjamin Harrison 

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4245437?uid=3738032&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=56237615273 

343 A History of the County of Rutland Volume 2 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66238 

344 A History of the Church of St Giles, Northampton http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofchurcho00serj#page/280/mode/2up/search/harrison 

345 The Victoria County History of Northamptonshire http://www.archive.org/stream/victoriahistoryo03adki#page/20/mode/2up/search/harris 

346 Visitation of Rutland http://www.archive.org/stream/visitationcount00britgoog#page/n31/mode/1up/search/harrison 

347 Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica Volume 1 http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/frederic-madden/collectanea-topographica-etgenealogica-volume-1-dda/page-16-collectanea-topographica-et-genealogica-volume-1-dda.shtml 

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Niendeshergh, Niendesherche, Ninesor, Ninezergh, Nissandesergh, Nixandser, Nunezergh, Nyandesergh, Nyandeser, Nyandser, 

Nyandsor, Nyandzer, Nyauncer, Nyneson, and Nynesor. 

There are records of the family from the early 13 th century, but very few records of persons with forenames corresponding to the 

pedigrees and none that can be connected to the Revell family. A Richard de Nyandesergh is recorded as a witness to the 

Inquisition Post Mortem for William de Coucy held at Lancaster on March 25 th 1343 / 4. 348 He cannot be unequivocally to the 

pedigrees and this Richard is certainly too early to be Elizabeth Nynesor’s father. 

The best documented individual of this poorly defined family seems to be a John Niandesergh and his wife Margaret, the widow 

of Roger le Scrope, are recorded in Feet of Fines on November 3 rd 1412 as holding land in Leicestershire, Bedfordshire and 

Buckinghamshire. 349 Her husband was notorious for supposedly abducting and raping his wife Margaret, for the murder of John 

350, 351, 352, 353, 354 

Tibbay, and being a Member of Parliament is comparatively well documented. This John Niandesergh is 

apparently the son of Mathew Ninezergh and Elizabeth Tibetot, 355 and John is thought possibly to be the father of ‘the William 

Ninezergh who was a juror at the sessions of gaol delivery in Appleby in 1430’. 356 From a consideration of the firm dates that 

are available and assuming sensible inter-generation intervals this William Ninezergh could be the father-in-law of Isabell 

Revell as shown in the pedigrees but this cannot be confirmed. 

The de Burnaby Arms and a putative de Burnaby–Revell marriage 

The Visitation of Northamptonshire describes the arms of Burnaby of Watford as ‘Quarterly of eight —I and 3. Argent, two bars 

and in chief a lion passant-gardant gules; 2. Ermine a chevron gules within a bordure engrailed Sable (Revell); 4. Ermine a 

fess counter-compony Or and Azure on a chief of the third two mullets of the second (Arden); 5. Gules on a chief Argent a label 

of three Points (Watford); 6. Argent a chevron Gules (Teyes); 7. Gules a chevron Argent between three plates (Besley); 8. 

Argent two chevrons Gules (Grindon)’. 357 

The first two quarters suggest that a male armiger married a Revell heiress, and after her death her son has quartered her arms (in 

quarter 2) with his father’s (in quarter 1). 358 Initial attempts to identify the Revell heiress were unsuccessful and a request for 

help was posted on Medieval Gen resulting in a clarification by Hikaru Kitabayashi who advised that the Revell arms were 

adopted by the Malory who inherited Newbold Revell. The marriage in question is that between Philippa Malory, sister of Sir 

Thomas Malory, and George Burnaby, son of Eustace Burnaby of Watford. 359 See above for further connections with Malory. 

348 Lancashire Inquisitions http://www.archive.org/stream/recordsociety70recouoft#page/56/mode/2up/search/nyand 

349 Feet of Fines CP 25/1/291/62, number 181 http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_291_62.shtml 

350 Patent Rolls Henry IV Volume 4 page 164 

351 Records relating to the Barony of Kendale Volume 2 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49311 

352 Patent Rolls http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/h5v1/body/Henry5vol1page0251.pdf 

353 Notes and Queries http://www.archive.org/stream/s11notesqueries04londuoft/s11notesqueries04londuoft_djvu.txt 

354 The History of Parliament http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/ninezergh-john-1420 

355 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wtm2&id=I148958 

356 The History of Parliament http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/ninezergh-john-1420 

357 Visitations of Northampton http://www.archive.org/stream/visitationsnort00vincgoog#page/n20/mode/2up. 

358 The Heraldry Society http://www.theheraldrysociety.com/articles/marshalling_and_cadency/quartering.htm 

359 The last years of Sir Thomas Malory by P.C. Field https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-manscw:1m1721&datastreamId=POST-PEER-REVIEW-PUBLISHERS-DOCUMENT.PDF 

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