Robert Harington, 3rd Baron Harington (1356-1406)Cokayne, ''Complete Peerage'', new edition, Vol.6, p.316 of

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in the manor of

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, was an English peer.

Origins

He was born at Gleaston Hall in the manor of Aldingham, and was baptised at Aldingham. He was the son and heir of

John Harington, 2nd Baron Harington John Harington, 2nd Baron Harington (1328–1363)Cokayne, ''The Complete Peerage'', new edition, Vol.6, p.316 of Aldingham in Furness, Lancashire, was an English peer, who inherited the title Baron Harington in 1347 on the death of his grandfathe ...

(1328-1363) by his wife, whose name is not known, possibly she was Joan de Birmingham, his step-sister.

Career

His father died in 1363 when Robert was a minor aged 7, and he became a

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of King Edward III, who granted the custody of his paternal lands to his daughter

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(1332–1382), wife of Enguerrand VII, Lord of Coucy, 1st Earl of Bedford (1340–1397). He exited wardship having attained his majority of 21 and in 1377 was knighted at the coronation of King

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(1377-1399). He rebuilt his ancestral seat as a castle, recorded for the first time in 1389 as

Marriages and children

He married twice: *Firstly in about 1376 to Alice de Greystoke, daughter of

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(1321-1359), of

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, without children.Cokayne, ''Complete Peerage'', new edition, Vol.6, p.317 *Secondly in about 1383 he married Isabel Loring (d.1400) a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Nele Loring (d.1386), KG one of the founding

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, and widow of Sir William Cogan (d.1382), of

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, Somerset,

feudal baron of Bampton The feudal barony of Bampton was one of eight feudal baronies in Devonshire which existed during the mediaeval era, and had its ''caput'' at Bampton Castle within the manor of Bampton. Descent Domesday Book The Domesday Book of 1086 lists ' ...

in Devon. Isabel was a great heiress of lands in Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, including the manor of

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in Somerset, which became a seat of her son and heir: **

John Harington, 4th Baron Harington John Harington, 4th Baron Harington (1384 – 11 April 1418) was an English nobleman who inherited the title of Baron Harington of Aldingham in Furness, Lancashire. He was the son of Robert Harington, 3rd Baron Harington and Isabella Loring, daught ...

(1384–1418)

Death

He died on 21 May 1406 at Aldingham.

Sources

References

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