Robert Harington, 3rd Baron Harington (1356-1406)Cokayne, ''Complete Peerage'', new edition, Vol.6, p.316 of Gleaston Castle 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, Cumbria, was an English peer, who inherited the title Baron Harington in 1347 on the death of his grandfather ...

(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 Gleaston Castle.

Marriages and children

He married twice: *Firstly in about 1376 to Alice de Greystoke, daughter of William de Greystoke, 2nd Baron Greystoke (1321-1359), of

Greystoke, Cumbria Greystoke is a village and civil parish on the edge of the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England, about west of Penrith. At the 2001 census the parish had a population of 642, increasing marginally to 654 at the 2011 Census. The vil ...

, 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 Sir Neil Loring, Knight of the Garter, KG (also "Neel", "Nele", "Nigel", "Loryng", "Loringe"; Latin: ''Nigellus''; (c. 1320 – 18 March 1386) was a medieval English soldier and diplomat and a founding member of the Order of the Garter, estab ...

(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 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 people, 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 Isabell ...

(1384–1418)

Death

He died on 21 May 1406 at Aldingham.

Sources

References

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