Elizabeth Harington

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁸²¹
Sir Thomas Tunstall, Knight, of Thurland in Tunstall, Lancashire married to Isabel, daughter of Nicholas Harington, Knight.

~Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry, p. 840

• From Gen-Medieval Archives: Tunstalls of Thurland Castle. ¹⁹³
From: royalancestry@msn.com (Douglas Richardson)
Subject: Re: Tunstalls of Thurland Castle
Date: 19 Dec 2001 08:49:34 -0800

TUNSTALL FAMILY INFORMATION

ISABEL HARINGTON, married before 1392 THOMAS TUNSTALL, Knt., of Thurland (in Tunstall), Burrow, Cantsfield (in Tunstall), Hubberthorn, Leck, and Newton, co. Lancaster, son and heir of William de Tunstall, Knt., of Thurland (in Tunstall), Cantsfield, Burrow (in Tunstall), Leck, Newton, etc., Knight of the Shire for Lancashire, by his wife, Katherine. They had five sons, William, Thomas, Robert, Nicholas and John, and six daughters, Mary (wife of John Radcliffe, Knt.), Margaret, Alice, Elizabeth (wife of Robert Bellingham, Esq.), Eleanor (wife of John Redman, Knt.) and Katherine. In 1397 he obtained a license to found a chantry in Thurland Castle where priests were to pray for him and his wife Isabel and the souls of his parents. In 1402 he had license to crenellate his mansion of Thurland and to enclose 1,000 acres as a park. He fought as a knight at the battle of Agincourt in 1415. SIR THOMAS TUNSTALL died 5 November 1415.
References:

Thomas D. Whitaker, Hist. of Richmondshire, 2 Pt. 2 (1823), unpaginated, Tunstall chart.

Testamenta Eboracensia, 3 (Surtees Soc., vol. 45) (1865): 321.

William Langton, ed., Abstracts of Inquisitions post Mortem (Chetham Soc., vol. 95) (1875): 115-116.

H.S.P. 16 (1881): 327-328 (1563/4 Vis. Yorkshire) ("Sir Thomas Tunstall Knight = Izabell doughter to Sir Nycolas Haryngton") (Tunstall arms: Sable, three combs argent).

George H.S.N. Plantagenet Harrison, Hist. of Yorkshire: Wapentake of Gilling West (1885): 300-301 (Tunstall pedigree).

VCH Lancaster, 8 (1914): 232-233 (Tunstall arms: Sable three combs argent), 237-238.

Visitations of the North (Surtees Soc., vol. 144) (1930): 80-81 (Tunstall pedigree) ("Dominus Thomas Tunstall miles = Isabella filia Nicholai Harington militis").

Col. W. H. Chippingdall, Hist. of the Parish of Tunstall (Chetham Soc., n.s., vol. 104) (1940): 18-20, 28-29.

Children of Thomas Tunstall, Knt., by Isabel Harington:

i. THOMAS TUNSTALL, K.B.

ii. MARGARET TUNSTALL, married RALPH PUDSAY, Knt., of Barforth, co, York [see PUDSAY 9].

iii. ALICE TUNSTALL, married THOMAS PARR, Knt., of Kirkby Kendall, co. Westmorland

iv. KATHERINE TUNSTALL, married JOHN PENNINGTON, Knt., of Muncaster, co. Cumberland.

Elizabeth married Sir Thomas Tunstall Knight of Thurland Castle, son of Sir William de Tunstall Knight and Alice de Lindsey.⁴³⁹ (Sir Thomas Tunstall Knight of Thurland Castle was born in Thurland, Lancashire, England and died on 5 Nov 1415 in Thurland, Lancashire, England.)