Isabel

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: unknown.

Mother: unknown.

The Complete Peerage (12:2:250) notes that John “is said to have [married] Isabel, daughter of Sir John and sister of Sir William de Haryngton.” A note states, “Dugdale’s authority is the family pedigree. It may be noted that in 1503 Richard Beaumont obtained a license to marry, as his second wife, Elizabeth Stanley, who is said to have been daughter and coheir of Sir John Harrington of Hornby Castle, and relict of Sir John Stanley.” This is given, for example, in Dugdale’s Visitation of Yorkshire sub Beaumont. This naturally gives rise to the suspicion that there has been some confusion. Adding to the suspicion is the fact that the Sir William de Haryngton apparently referred to was not the son of Sir John. Some authors have tried to get around these problems by proposing that Isabel was instead the daughter of Sir Nicholas Harrington and Isabel English. But this runs into a contemporary pedigree (from c. 1425-1440) transcribed by William Farrer which shows Nicholas with his three known sons and three of his known daughters, but no Isabel married to, or widow of, Sir John Stanley. It seems simplest to assume that Dugdale made a mistake, and that Isabel’s parents are unknown.

Spouse: John de Stanley.

This relationship is given by Baines (5:74) and by Whitaker (pedigree chart before page 251).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Thomas Stanley (2 August 1406 - 11 February 1458/9), 1st baron Stanley, married Joan Goushill.

Richard Stanley, archdeacon of Chester.

Edward Stanley, archdeacon of Chester.

Isabel Stanley married John de Warrenne of Poynton.

Alice Stanley married Sir Thomas de Dutton, lord of Dutton.

References

Baines, Edward, and James Croston. The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster (revised). (Manchester, England: John Heywood, 1888-1893).

Brydges, Egerton. Collins's peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical, greatly augmented, and continued to the present time. (London: [T. Bensley], 1812).

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Farrer, William and J. Paul Rylands, eds. Some Lancashire Pedigrees Drawn about the Years 1425-1440. (London, 1916).

A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 8 (Victoria County Histories, 1914).

Horrox, Rosemary. “Harrington family (per c. 1300-1512)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Payling, Simom. “Thomas Stanley II (1406-1459) of Lathom and Knowsley, Lancs., lord of the Isle of Man” in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1422-1461 (Linda Clark ed.) (University of Cambridge Press, 2020). 

“Stanley, John (d. 1437), of Knowsley and Lathom, Lancs., lord of the Isle of Man” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421. [accessed 7 September 2014]

Whitaker, Thomas Dunham. An history of Richmondshire, in the North riding of the county of York: together with those parts of the Everwicschire of Domesday which from the wapentakes of Lonsdale, Ewecross, and Amunderness, in the counties of York, Lancaster, and Westmorland. (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, 1823).