Sir Nicholas Harington Knight

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 34:33 - of Farleton, b. 1345, living in 1397, and m. to Isabel English, daughter of Sir William English, Cumberland County, son of Sir John Harington, and Katherine Banastre, father of Sir James Harington, 35:33 - husband of Isabel English & father of Sir William Harington, Knight of the Garter. ¹⁶⁰

~Pedigree Chart from The Records of Kendale, Vol. II, AGE 16 IN 1362, father of Sir William m. Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Nevile'; James; and Nicholas. ⁸⁵⁹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: From GEN-MEDIEVAL-L Archives. ¹⁹³
From: Douglas Richardson <royalancestry@msn.com>
Subject: Re: Sir Nicholas Harrington's wife
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:58:06 -0700 (PDT)

Nicholas Harington (or Haverington), Knt., Knight of the Shire for Lancashire, Sheriff of Lancashire, master forester of Quernmore, co. Lancaster, third son, born about 1344 (proved his age in 1365). He was heir in 1361 to his older brother, Thomas Haverington, by which he inherited the manors of Farleton (in Melling), Bolton-le-Moors, Heath Charnock, Aighton, etc., co. Lancaster and Farleton in Kendale, co. Westmorland. He married (lst) before September 1369, Isabel English, daughter and heiress of William English, Knt., of Appleby, Little Strickland, and Hasket, Westmorland, Knight of the Shire for Westmoreland, by Margaret, daughter of Richard le Brun. She was born about 1345. They had three sons, William, Knt., James, Knt., and Nicholas, and five daughters, Isabel (first), Margaret (wife of Richard Huddleston, Knt.), Agnes (wife of Richard Sherburne), Mary (wife of John Redman), and Isabel (second). Isabel was co-heiress c. 1369 to her uncle, Robert le Brun, by which she inherited the manor of Drumburgh (in Bowness), Bowness, Cardurnock, etc., and a one-third share in the manors of Bothel (in Torpenhow), Beaumont, and Brunskaith, co. Cumberland. In 1369 he went to Ireland in the retinue of William de Windsor, Knt., where he fought for the next two years. In 1373 he and William Curwen, knt. (husband of his wife's aunt, Ellen le Brun) caused major devastation on the estates at Beaumont, co. Cumberland of Ralph de Dacre, Lord Dacre. In 1375 he was implicated in the murder of Lord Dacre, for which action he was excommunicated by the Archbishop of York. He married (2nd) before August 1397 (date of fine) Joan (or Jennet) Venables, widow successively of Thomas de Lathom, Knt. (died 1382), of Lathom, Knowsley, and Huyton, co. Lancaster, and Roger Fazakerley, and daughter of Hugh Venables, of Kinderton, Cheshire. They had no issue. Sir Nicholas Harington died shortly before 8 February 1404.

• From Gen-Medieval Archives. ¹⁹³
From: Dhhic@comcast.net (Douglas Hickling)
Subject: Who the Parents of Richard Sherburne's Wive Agnes, and of Isabel (Sherburne) Towneley and Agnes (Sherburne) Rishton?
Date: 24 May 2004 19:04:31 -0700

Douglas Richardson, in his recently published Plantagenet Ancestry ¹⁴⁴ , at 678-679, gives convincing proof that the wife of Sir John Stanley of Lathom and Knowsley in Lancashire, was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Nicholas Harington of Farleton, also in Lancashire, and his wife Isabel English. Some of the sources cited by Mr. Richardson to prove Elizabeth (Harington) Stanley's parentage also identify the wife of Richard Sherburne (formerly Bayley) of Stonyhurst as Elizabeth's sister, Agnes Harington. This effectively disproves the conventional wisdom, based only upon secondary authorities, that holds that Agnes Sherburne was a daughter of William Stanley of Hooton, Cheshire.

The most important of the secondary sources cited by Mr. Richardson is the pedigree chart of the Harington family published in 1823 in vol. 2 of Thomas Dunham Whitaker's An History of Richmondshire. In this pedigree, Whitaker sets forth the names and spouses of the three sons and five daughters of Sir Nicholas and Isabel (English) Harington, leaving little doubt that the compiler had access to much information relating to this generation of the family. The third daughter, Agnes Harington, is shown to have married Richard Sherburne. Richardson notes that Sir Nicholas' mother is incorrectly shown as Katherine Sherburne instead of Katherine Banastre, a mistake which need not invalidate the rest of what appears to be an extraordinarily detailed and complete pedigree of this line of Haringtons from its earliest recorded history. (continued on daughter, Elizabeth's page)

• Web Reference: Sir Nicholas Haryngton from The History of Parliament: the House of Commons.

Nicholas married Isabel le Engleys, daughter of Sir William le Engleys Knight and Unknown.¹⁶⁰ (Isabel le Engleys was born in 1351 in Lancashire, England.)