Sir Rhys Mansel (c. 1487 – 1559), also Sir Rice Mansel, also Sir Rice Manxell, also Sir Rice Maunsell,

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, a Commissioner of Peace and served as Chamberlain of Chester to King

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for 1542. Sir Rice owned estates at Penrice and Oxwich, and at the Dissolution of the Monasteries he purchased

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, which remained the property of his descendants until 1941. He married three times, firstly Eleanor Basset, and secondly, Anne Bridges. Her son, Philip Mansel, married Mary Darrell.

Cecily Dabridgecourt, Lady Mansel

In 1527, he married his third wife, Cecily Dabridgecourt (died 1558), a daughter of William or John Dabridgecourt of

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and Maria, a daughter of Richard Mynors of Treago, From 1525, she was a lady in waiting to Lady Mary, later

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, who gave her gifts of jewellery. Lady Mansel rode in Mary's coronation procession. The poet

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wrote of her "Mansell is a merry one".

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, Lady Petre, was chief mourner at her funeral at

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in September 1558. Rice Mansel's brother, Philip Mansel of Llandewy married Anne Dabridgecourt.

Children

Rice Mansel's children with his third wife, Cecily Dabridgecourt, included: *Sir Edward Mansel (d. 1595), who married Jane Somerset, daughter of the

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, and was the father of

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sailor and glass-making entrepreneur. * Anthony Mansel (MP), who married Elizabeth Basset, daughter of John Basset of Llantrithryd.Stanley Bindhoff, ''The House of Commons, 1509-1558'', 2 (London, 1982), p.565. * Mary Mansel, married Sir Thomas Southwell of

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, and was the mother of Sir Robert Southwell.

References

*Maunsell, Charles Albert and Statham, Edward Phillips, ''History of the Family of Maunsell (Mansell, Mansel) '', 2 vols. in 3, Anchor Press LTD, Tiptree Essex, 1917-20.

External links

HeraldryOxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Rice Mansel
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mansel, Rice 1480s births 1559 deaths 16th-century Welsh military personnel Welsh knights High sheriffs of Glamorgan Court of Mary I of England

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