Reginald Mitton MP (1369 - aft. 1413)

Husband of Anna (Vaughan) Mitton — married [date unknown] in England

Husband of Eleanor (le Skinner) Mitton — married 1376 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England

Descendants

Died after 1413 after age 44 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England

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Biography

Reginald de Mutton, Bailiff & Burgess of Shrewsbury, and son of Hankyn, held premises in Shrewsbury in 1413; and of the wealth and importance of this gentleman some notion may be formed from the fact that he lent to Richard III (and I apprehend that it was during the residence of that capricious monarch at the Parliament of Shrewsbury) the sum of forty marks, a considerable sum in those days, and more than a fourth part of what was advanced by the Corporation upon the same occasion. By a writ, dated the 10th of August, in the twenty-first of his reign, the King acknowledges this service of his beloved and faithful Reginald de Mitton, and promises "in good faith" to repay the same in the quindem of the ensuing Easter.

He greatly raised the family's importance by marrying Lady Anna (Alice) Vaughn, the heiress of Sir Hamo Vaughan, Lord of the Manor of West Tilbury, in Essex, son of Sir Thomas Vaughan, Lord of the Manor of Stepney, who bore the spread eagle in his arms, and who, from the name of Vaughan's Place still belonging to that old hall near the market-place in Shrewsbury, late the property of the Halston family.

By lady Anna (Alice) Vaughn, Reginald de Mutton had two sons, Thomas and John.

Burke, in his Landed Gentry (1817), gives a somewhat different version. Sixth in descent from Sir Hugh's son, Roger, was Hawkin de Mutton, father of Reginald de Mutton, M.P. for Shrewsbury in 1373, who married, FIRST, Anna (Alice) Vaughan, daughter and heir of Lady Anna Eaton and Sir Hamo (or Hammon) Vaughan, Lord of the Manor of West Tilbury, Essex, and had by her two sons, John de Mitton and Thomas Mitton, Esq., who married Agnes, daughter and heir of William Burley, Esq.

Reginald married, secondly, Eleanor le Skinner, sister of Thomas le Skinner of Shrewsbury. Her father was William le Parminter. Eleanor was the mother of Sir Richard Mutton (b: c1390, d.10 Nov 1418), who married Margaret Peshall, daughter and coheir of Sir Adam Peshall, Knight, of Weston-under-Lizard, and was ancestor of the MYTTONS of Weston.

Sources

• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p91.htm#i2734
• http://www.geni.com/people/Reginald-de-Mutton-of-Salop-Esq/6000000006444272663