Sir John de Harington Knight

   Another name for John was Sir John de Haverington.

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 34:31, knighted 22 May 1306; 1st lord of Harington; M.P. 1326-47, married Joan (probably Darce). Sir John held the manors of Aldingham, Thurnham and Ulverston in co. Lancaster, Witherslack and Hutton Roof in Westmorland and Austwick and Harington in Cumberland. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷²¹
Sir John de Harington, 1st Lord Harington was born about 1281 and died 2 Jul 1347. He was buried in Cartmel Church. He was of Aldingham, Lancashire, Caucefield and Farleton. He received a pardon in 1313 for having supported the Earl of Lancaster at the time of the murder of Piers de Gavaston, and another pardon for being the Earl's adherent in Nov 1318. He obeyed the king's order to stay away from the Earl of Lancaster's meeting of "good peers" at Doncaster in 1321, and was not recorded as having participated in the Earl's uprising in the spring of 1322. He was outlawed in 1823 when the treason of Andrew de Harcla, whom he assisted in the Scottish Marches, was discovered, but was pardoned on surrender, and was a custodian of the truce with the Scots later in the year.

He had two sons, Sir Robert Harrington who died in 1334 and Married Elizabeth de Multon; and Sir John, who died in 1359 and married Katherine Banastre.

~Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, pg. 132

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
John de Haverington or Harington, son and heir of Sir Robert Haverington, of Harrington in Cumberland and his wife, Agnes, and eventually heir of Aline, wife of Richard de Cansfield, heiress of the family of Furness or Fleming of Muchland in Furness. John was born about 1281 and he succeeded his mother in 1293, and his father in 1297 while he was still under age. He was knighted, 22 May 106 when Edward, Prince of Wales was made a knight at Westminster.

Sir John de Harington was summoned, 26 Oct 1309 for military service, as well as on 3 Edward. II to 27 Mar 9 Edward III (1335). He was summoned to councils from 20 Dec 1324 until 25 Feb 1341/42, and to Parliament from 3 Dec 1316 until 30 Jul 1347. His named on the writs is styled "Johanni de Haverynton." and he was called Lord Harington.

In 1336, in conjunction with his wife Joan, he made a settlement of his Lancashire manors, and 6 Jan 1340/41, he obtained a charter of free warren in Witherslack, and a park in Aldingham. Sir John Harington died 2 Jul 1347 and was buried in Cartmel Church.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Harrington), Vol. VI, pp. 314-315

John married Joan Darce, daughter of Sir William de Darce Knight and Joane de Gernet ¹⁴¹.^,160 (Joan Darce was born in Darce, Cumberland, England.)