♂Reynold Mitton

Reynold Mitton (dates unknown) was a burgess^W of Shrewsbury, in Shropshire, England, and is said to have served as a bailiff of the town. He was the sixteenth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his son Richard Mitton (died 1418).

Marriages

Reynold’s first wife was Eleanor le Parminter, a daughter of William le Parminter, also called le Skinner. Reynold married a second time, but the name of his second wife is not known.

Lines of descent

The line to Nancy runs from Reynold through his son and heir, Richard Mitton (died 1418). A second line probably runs through Richard’s granddaughter Joan Mitton to her son John Washburn (died 1547), who would be Richard’s great-grandson; the reasoning is set out in the Notes.

Notes

Sources

Reynold Mitton is known from Douglas Richardson’s Magna Carta Ancestry (2005), p. 117, where his son is “RICHARD MITTON (or MYTTON), Knt., of Weston under Lizard … son and heir of Reynold Mitton, of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, bailiff of Shrewsbury, Burgess of Shrewsbury, by his 1st wife, Eleanor, daughter of William le Parminter (alias le Skinner)”. Richardson’s references for Richard’s account include Canon Bridgeman’s history of Weston-under-Lizard (1899), the Victoria County History of Staffordshire and the History of Parliament volumes for 1386–1421. The Mitton pedigree that James Davenport drew from the Visitation of Shropshire of 1623, printed in The Washbourne Family of Little Washbourne and Wichenford (1907), begins with Richard. No record gives the years in which Reynold was bailiff, or the dates of his birth, marriages or death. The name is also written Mytton. That John Washburn of Bengeworth (died 1547) was the son of Richard’s granddaughter Joan Mitton is the identification of the Washbournes’ historian, James Davenport, not a record’s, so the descent through him is given here as probable.