General Notes

Name Prefix:<NPFX> Sir
Lord of Dunster
Justice of Common Pleas
Chief Justice of the Forests South of Trent
Keeper of the Forests South of Trent
Keeper of Sauvey Castle, Leicester
created Count Palatine by Pope.
REYNOLD DE MOHUN, son and heir, a minor at his father's dea
th. His wardship was granted in 1213 to Henry FitzCount, an
d on Henry's death in 1227 to William Briwere, his own gran
dfather. He had livery by 1227, when he was made a knight
. He accompanied the King on his French expedition in 1230
, and to Wales in 123i. He was in debt to the Jews in 1234
, and made a justice of the Common Pleas. In 1242 he was t
o have two good ships provided for him to follow the King a
cross the sea to Gascony, and in April of that year was a C
hief Justice of the Forests South of Trent. He served in th
e expedition into Wales in 1245, and in 1246 refounded th
e abbey of Newenham at Axminster. He was also a benefacto
r of the houses of Bruton, Barlinch and Cleeve. In 1252 h
e was appointed keeper of the royal forests South of Trent
, with 100 marks per annum for maintenance, and keeper duri
ng pleasure of Sauvey Castle, co. Leicester. In 1253 he ha
d grants of free warren at Dunster, Whichford and Ottery, a
nd licence to hunt hare, fox, cat and badger in Somerset an
d one other county.
He married, 1stly, Hawise (h). He married, 2ndly, in or bef
ore 1243, Isabel, the childless widow of Sir Gilbert BASSET
, and daughter of William (DE FERRERS), EARL OF DERBY, by h
is 1st wife (to whom she was coheir), Sibyl, daughter and e
ventually coheir of William (MARSHAL), EARL OF PEMBROKE. H
e died 20 January 1257/8, at Tor Mohun in Devon, and was bu
ried at Newenham in front of the high altar, on the left-ha
nd side. His widow died before 26 November 1260, when the w
rit to the escheator issued. [Complete Peerage IX:20, XIV:4
78, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(h) She was apparently daughter of Geoffrey FitzPiers, Ear
l of Essex. The author of "Dunster" suggested that she wa
s daughter, and possibly heir, of William Fleming, but afte
r examination of documents cited in the account of Streatle
y given in VCH, Berkshire, he now inclines to credit the ol
der view as above. A deed executed by her as Domina Hawis
e de Mohun is copied in the Pole MS.
Note: At least for one daughter, Burke's Peerage has Hawise
, daughter of William Fleming, as the mother. It may be inc
orrect, but maybe there were two Hawises as his first wives.