Sir Reginald Mohun, 1st Baronet and his 3rd wife Dorothy Chudleigh. The arms show Mohun impaling Chudleigh: Ermine, three lions salient gules[1]Arms of Mohun: Or, a cross engrailed sable
Sir Reginald Mohun, 1st Baronet (1564 – 26 December 1639)[2] of Boconnoc in Cornwall, was a prominent member of the gentry of Cornwall and an MP.[3]
He was the Member of Parliament for Fowey in 1584 and 1586 and for East Looe in 1614. He was also elected in a double return in 1625 when four names were submitted, which was not knowingly resolved by Parliament. He was selected Sheriff of Cornwall for 1592–93 and made a Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall in 1600.
He was knighted in 1599 and created a baronet on 25 November 1612.
Marriages and children
Mural monument with kneeling effigy, in Boconnoc Church, of Penelope Mohun (d.1637), a daughter of Sir Reginald Mohun, 1st Baronet (c.1564-1639) of Boconnoc, with arms of Mohun
Elizabeth Mohun (born 1593), wife of John Trelawney of Trelawney in Cornwall.[4]
Thirdly he married Dorothy Chudleigh, a daughter of John Chudleigh (1565–1589),[8] MP, of Ashton, Devon, and sister of Sir George Chudleigh, 1st Baronet (c. 1578 – 1658), 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:
^Vivian, 1887, p. 325; Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pedigree of Chudleigh, p. 190