Robert Harrington (Knight)

Sir Robert Harrington of Badsworth (1444 - June 16, 1487 ) was an English knight .

Life

Sir Robert was a son of Sir Thomas Harrington and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Dacre.

Sir Robert, like his father, was a devoted supporter of the House of York and fought for Edward IV during the Wars of the Roses at the Battle of Towton in 1461 and at Barnet and Tewkesbury in 1471 . In Tewkesbury Robert Harrington was beaten on May 4, 1471 to the Knight Bachelor .

When Edward IV returned from exile in early 1471, Robert Harrington and his brother James were among the first to join Edward.

Sir Robert sat in Parliament for the county of Lancashire from 1472 and fought for Richard Duke of Gloucester , later King Richard III. , 1482 during the campaign against Scotland. Richard III proposed Sir Robert on July 24, 1482 in Scotland to the Knight Banneret .

Since the death of their father and older brother John, both killed at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460 , Robert and his brother James have had an ongoing battle for the legacy of Hornby Castle, Lancashire and its lands. The two underage daughters of John were appointed as heirs, but because of their age they received a guardian, Geoffrey Middleton. This meant that the Harringtons inheritance was lost, which Robert and James did not accept. The two brothers took the nieces to Hornby Castle and the castle was occupied by them and not released.

Since the Harringtons were loyal Yorkists, King Edward IV took no serious steps. In addition, the two had an influential patron in Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick . When Warwick rebelled against the king in 1469, Eduard took action and gave the two heiresses the guardianship of the Stanley's . Robert and James continued to occupy the castle, even when an arbitration in 1472 found the Stanleys right. It is believed that Richard Duke of Gloucester may have intervened for the Harringtons.

The Harrington brothers were close colleagues of Richard and Sir Robert is also said to have been one of the men who on June 13, 1483, on orders from Richard, arrested William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, for high treason and brought him to execution. When Richard ascended the throne shortly afterwards, Sir Robert was named Knight of the Kings Body .

On August 22, 1485, Sir Robert fought for his king at the Battle of Bosworth and was given a Bill of Attainder by the victorious new King Henry VII . As a result, Sir Robert lost all rights, possessions and lands.

Sir Robert was 1486 Pardon , was rehabilitated and given back his property, but struggled already in the following year Sir Robert against the king in the battle of Stoke .

It is very likely that Sir Robert fell in Stoke on June 16, 1487.

Marriage and offspring

Sir Robert Harrington was married to Isabel Balderstone. The couple had the following offspring:

• James
• Jane ⚭ Edmund Talbot

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Towton Battlefield Society
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Richard III. Foundation Inc. ( Memento of the original from January 22nd, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} David Baldwin: Richard III. Amberley Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4456-1591-2 .
4. ^ ^{A b} William A. Shaw: The Knights of England. Genealogical Publishing Com, 1971, pp. 14, 18.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Rosemary Horrox: Richard III: A Study in Service. Cambridge University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-521-40726-5 , pp. 41, 46, 69, 70, 267.
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e} David Hipson: Richard III and the Death of Chivalry. The History Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7524-6915-7 , pp. 129-133, 91, 192, 176, 116, 140.
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e} David Baldwin: Stoke Field: The Last Battle of the Wars of the Roses. Pen & Sword, 2006, ISBN 1-78159-693-X .
8. ^ ^{A b} Charles Ross: Richard III. University of California Press, 1983, ISBN 0-520-05075-4 , pp. 51, 56, 57, 84, 85.
9. ↑ Eric Acheson: A Gentry Community: Leicestershire in Fifteen Century 1422-1485. Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-521-52498-9 , p. 130.
10. ^ ^{A b} Richard Brooke: Visits to the Fields of Battle in England. John R. Smith, London 1837, p. 309.
11. ^ ^{A b} W. Hutton, J. Nicols: The Battle of Bosworth Field. Nicols & Son and Bentley, London 1813, pp. 159, 250.
12. ↑ Terry Breverton: Henry VII: The Maligned Tudor King. Amberley Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4456-4606-0 .
13. ^ Edward Baines: History of the County Palatine of Lancaster. Vol. I, Fisher, Son & Co. London 1836, p. 441.
14. ↑ Surtees Society: Testamenta Eboracensia. Vol. IV, Andrew + Co, Durham 1869, p. 229.
15. ^ John Harland: Genealogy of the Pilkingtons of Lancashire. Charles Simms, Manchester 1875, p. Xlvii.