Hugues de Revel
Hugues de Revel was the 19th Grand Master of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem.Origins
According to John Lambrick Vivian and John Burke, Revel was an Englishman, Hugh Reinell, a younger son of Walter Reynell of Pitney in Somerset by his wife Maude of Trumpington, daughter and heiress of Everard of Trumpington, lord of the manor of Trumpington in Cambridgeshire.
Revel’s elder brother was John Reynell of Trumpington in Cambridgeshire, stated in the Heraldic Visitation of Devon of 1620 to have been a Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire in 1351/2, who married Maud of Fulburne, a daughter of Giles of Fulburne of Cambridgeshire.
The earliest recorded member of the Reynell family is of Sir Richard Reynell, who died before 1213, of Pitney in Somerset, Sheriff of Devon in 1191-4, Hugh Reynell's great-great-grandfather.
