John Tyrell

Sir John Tyrrell (c.1382 – 2 April 1437), of Heron in the Essex parish of East Horndon, was an English landowner, lawyer, administrator, and politician who was chosen three times as Speaker of the House of Commons. Origins John Tyrrell was the eldest son of Walter Tyrrell of Avon Tyrrell, Hampshire, by his wife Eleanor Flambard (died 29 March 1422), daughter and heiress of Edmund Flambard of Shepreth, Cambridgeshire, by his wife Elizabeth FitzRalph, daughter of Richard FitzRalph. After the death of Walter Tyrrell, Eleanor remarried to Sir Nicholas Haute (1357–c. 1415), MP, of Wadden Hall in Waltham, Kent. John was the grandson and heir of Sir Thomas Tyrrell (died 1382) who was buried at Downham, Essex, in 1382, and was survived by his wife, Alice. Brothers Tyrrell had the following four brothers: Edward Tyrrell (died 17 December 1442), Esquire, of Downham, who married Anne Pashley, widow of John Bassingbourne and daughter of Sir Robert Pashley by his wife Philippe Sergeaux (sister-in-law of Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford). By his wife Anne, Edward Tyrrell had the following progeny: Edward Tyrrell, who died without issue. Philippe Tyrrell, daughter, who married, before 1446–7, Thomas Cornwallis (died 26 May 1484) of Brome, Suffolk, by whom she had four sons and a daughter. Margaret Tyrrell, who married Robert Mounteney. He also had John Tyrrell, illegitimate son. Richard Tyrrell; Thomas Tyrrell; William Tyrrell, who died before 1442. Sisters He probably also had a sister: Elizabeth Tyrrell, who married, as his second wife, Sir William Lisle (died 1442), an illegitimate son of Robert Lisle, 3rd Baron Lisle (died 1399).