John Harrington

Events

Date of Birth: about 1281.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by the Complete Peerage (6:314).

Date of Death: 2 July 1347.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by the Complete Peerage (6:314) and by Horrox (ODNB).

Place of Burial: Cartmel Priory church.

The place is given by the Complete Peerage (6:314) and by Horrox (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Sir Robert de Haverington.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (6:314) and by Horrox (ODNB).

Mother: Agnes de Cansfield.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (6:314) and by Horrox (ODNB).

(probable) Spouse: Joan Dacre.

The name Joan is given by the Complete Peerage (6:315). Horrox (ODNB) notes that the heraldry on John and Joan’s tomb in Cartmel Priory church indicates that Joan was the daughter of William Dacre, who had the wardship of John when he was a minor.

Children:

Sir Robert Harrington married Elizabeth Moulton.

Sir John Harrington (died 1 August 1359) married Katherine Banastre.

Evidence

The Coucher Book of Furness Abbey (pp. 86 and 87) records some relationships.

Farrer (pp. 161-163) gives the inquest.

Chris Philips gives abstracts of fines from 1336 and from 1340.

References

Brownbill, John, and John Christopher Atkinson (eds.). The Coucher Book of Furness Abbey. (Manchester: Printed for the Chetham Society, volume 9 New Series, 1886).

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).

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

Farrer, William. Lancashire Inquests, Extents, and Feudal Aids. (Liverpool: Record Society of Lancaster and Cheshire, Vol. LXX, 1915-16).

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