Christopher Mansell

Christopher Maunsell is the son of Sir Edward Mansel and Lady Jane Somerset.2 He married Anne Worsley, daughter of Sir Robert Worsley.1      

He lived at Percywood, Gower, Glamorgan, Wales.1

Children of Christopher Maunsell and Anne Worsley

1. Jane Maunsell2
2. Hope Maunsell2
3. Dorothy Maunsell2
4. Catherine Maunsell2
5. Elizabeth Maunsell2

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• thepeerage.com
• Dictionary of Welsh Biography
  • MANSEL family, of Oxwich , Penrice , and Margam abbey, Glam. The history of the Mansel family is fairly well documented; the Penrice and Margam abbey muniments in the National Library of Wales extend to several thousand documents. ...
    • G. T. Clark (op. cit.) starts the line with HENRY MANSEL , who is said to have settled in Gower in the reign of Edward I . Following him came RICHARD MANSEL , RICHARD , Sir HUGH MANSEL (who m. Isabel , daughter and heiress of Sir John Penrice of Penrice castle in Gower ), and PHILIP MANSEL , slain in the Wars of the Roses and attainted. Philip Mansel 's wife was Mary , daughter of Gruffudd ap Nicolas (q.v.) of Newton ; their son JENKIN MANSEL of Oxwich , ‘ The Valiant ,’ had the attainder reversed in 1485 .
      • It was Sir RICE MANSEL (d. 1559 ), of Penrice and Oxwich , son of Jenkin Mansel (of Oxwich ), who purchased Margam abbey from the Crown ( De Gray Birch , Catalogue ). His son, Sir EDWARD MANSEL (d. 1595 ), of Penrice , Oxwich , and Margam , m. Jane Somerset , daughter of Henry , 2nd earl of Worcester ; among their children were THOMAS MANSEL (the heir), FRANCIS MANSEL (whence the Mansel family of Muddlescombe, Carms. — see catalogue of the Muddlescombe Documents in N.L.W. , and the article on Francis Mansell ), and Sir Robert Mansel , vice-admiral of England (q.v.) .
• History of Maunsell or Mansel, and of Crayford, Gabbett, Knoyle, Persse, Toler, Waller, Castletown; Waller, Prior Park; Warren, White, Winthrop, and Mansell of Guernsey by Maunsell, Robert George Published 1903. Page 23