Reginald Lucy (1359 - 1437)

Born 1359 in Cublington, Buckinghamshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Mowbray) Lucy — married Jul 1369 (to before Jul 1401) in England

Descendants

Died 9 Nov 1437 at about age 78 in Dallington, Northamptonshire, England

Biography

REYNOLD LUCY, son and heir, was aged 40 and more at his father's death, and a knight already in 1387. He married, before February 1378/9, Margaret, whose parentage is not known. He died 9 November 1437. [Complete Peerage VIII:261 (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah, writes: The immigrants Robert Abell, Richard More of the Mayflower and Rev. John Oxenbridge are lineal descendants of Reginald Lucy, died 1437, of Dallington, Northamptonshire, and his wife, Margaret. Until now, Margaret Lucy's identity and parentage have been unknown. However, recently I came across this couple's marriage license in an obscure episcopal register:

"Kal. Jul. [1 July] 1369. At Heywod. To Reginald de Lucy, son of Sir Geoffrey de Lucy, and Margaret, daughter of Sir John de Moubrey, to be married in the chapel within Bretteby [Bretby] Castle [co. Derby]" [Reference: Lichfield Episcopal Registers, Register of [Bishop] Robert de Stretton published in William Salt Archaeological Society, n.s., 8 (1905): 47].

Sources

• Magna Carta Ancestry 2011 2nd ed. Vol. III p. 64