Rice Mansel

Rice Mansel

Sir Rhys Mansel (c. 1487 – 1559), also Sir Rice Mansel, also Sir Rice Manxell, also Sir Rice Maunsell, Vice-Admiral, was Sheriff of Glamorgan, a Commissioner of Peace and served as Chamberlain of Chester to King Henry VIII of England.

Sir Rice owned estates at Penrice and Oxwich, and at the Dissolution of the Monasteries he purchased Margam Abbey, which remained the property of his descendants until 1941.

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

* [http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-MANS-OXW-1250.html Welsh Biography Online]
* [http://flashpages.prodigy.net/cunningb/ldsite/LDMpga14heraldry.htm Heraldry]
* [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/67989 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Rice Mansel]


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