Sir John Harrington

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1 August 1359.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Horrox (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: John Harrington, first Lord Harrington.

This relationship is given by Horrox (ODNB).

(probable) Mother: 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.

Spouse: Katherine Banastre.

This relationship is given by Horrox (ODNB).

Children:

Robert Harrington (died late January or early February 1361).

Thomas Harrington (died May 1361).

Sir Nicholas Harrington (about 1345 - in or before 1404) married (1) Isabel English; married (2) Joan Venables.

References

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).

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