Sir Reginald Mohun, 1st Baronet

Origins

Career

Marriages and children

• Firstly in 1589 to Mary Killigrew, 3rd daughter of Sir Henry Killigrew, MP, diplomat and ambassador, by whom he had one son:
• *William Mohun who predeceased his father without children.
• Secondly to Philippa Hele, a daughter of the eminent lawyer Sir John Hele of Wembury in Devon, by whom he had children including:
• *John Mohun, 2nd Baronet, 1st Baron Mohun of Okehampton, eldest son and heir, created Baron Mohun of Okehampton in 1628. This was in reference to his family being one of the heirs of the Courtenay Earls of Devon and feudal barons of Okehampton in Devon, seated at Okehampton Castle. His ancestor William Mohun of Hall in the parish of Lanteglos-by-Fowey, Cornwall, had married Elizabeth Courtenay, a daughter of Sir Hugh Courtenay of Boconnoc and one of the four co-heiresses of the last of the old Earls of Devon.
• *Elizabeth Mohun, wife of John Trelawney of Trelawney in Cornwall.
• Thirdly he married Dorothy Chudleigh, a daughter of John Chudleigh, MP, of Ashton, Devon, and sister of Sir George Chudleigh, 1st Baronet, MP for Lostwithiel, Cornwall, in 1621 and 1625 and for East Looe, Cornwall, in 1614. By his wife he had three sons and four daughters, including:
• *Reginald Mohun, 2nd son, a Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel, Cornwall, in 1626.
• *Ferdinando Mohun, 3rd son.
• *George Mohun, 4th son.

  Death