Sir John Harrington of Hornby

Sir John Harrington of Hornby, Lancashire (before 1336[1] – 1359), was a fourteenth-century knight and founder of the medieval Harrington dynasty in the North of England, known as the Harringtons of Farleton and Hornby.[2] They were a cadet branch of the Harringtons of Aldingham, Sir John being the second son of the first Lord Harrington, who died in 1347.[3] At some point he married Katherine Banaster of Bolton.[2] Sir John the younger held Farleton manor jointly with Katherine[4] for a peppercorn rent of an annual payment of one rose, and suit at his father's court.[5] In 1352, the duke of Lancaster granted Harrington the manor of Hornby; he already, jure uxoris held Bolton-le-Moors, Chorley, and Aighton.[6] He died on 1 August 1359: his lands passed in quick succession to his eldest son, Robert, to his brother Thomas (who both died in 1361), and thence to his Harrington's youngest son Nicholas.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Townships: Farleton".
  2. 1 2 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/54525/61174?back=,54525,54525,54525,54525
  3. ↑ Cockayne, G.E., Complete Peerage IV (London, 1892), 168
  4. ↑ "Townships: Farleton".
  5. ↑ "Townships: Farleton".
  6. ↑ Weis, F.W., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists (7th ed., Baltimore, 2002), 37-8
  7. ↑ http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/54525/61174?back=,54525,54525,54525,54525,54525
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