Baron Harington

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Original family crest of the Barons Harington

Baron Harington , of Aldingham, was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of England .

The historic family seat of the barons was Gleaston Castle in Cumbria until 1458 .

Award and history of the title

The title was created on December 3, 1326 by King Edward II of England for Sir John Harington , when he was called to the English Parliament by Writ of Summons . He was a member of the opposition to the king's favorite Piers Gaveston († 1312).

At the death of his great-great grandson, the 5th baron, the title fell in 1458 to his grandson William Bonville as the 6th baron, the son of his only daughter Elizabeth Harington († before 1458) and William Bonville (⚔ 1460), son and heir of William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville († 1461). His only daughter Cecily Bonville inherited her father as 7th Baroness Harington in 1460 and her grandfather as 2nd Baroness Bonville in 1461 and in 1474 married Thomas Gray, 1st Marquess of Dorset . Their son Thomas Gray inherited from his father in 1501 as 2nd Marquess of Dorset and 8th Baron Ferrers of Groby, as well as his mother's two baronies in 1529. His son, the 3rd Marquess , also became the Duke of Suffolk in 1551 . After the death of King Edward VI. he tried unsuccessfully to enforce his daughter Lady Jane Gray against the Catholic heir to the throne Maria I. He was eventually ostracized and executed for high treason in 1554 , forfeiting all his titles.

List of Barons Harington (1326)

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage . Volume 2, Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, Wilmington 2003, p. 1789.

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