William Harrington
Sir William Harrington KG (also William Haryngton , † 1440 ) was an English knight .
He was a son of Sir Nicholas Harrington († around 1404) from his first marriage to Joan Venable.
He married Margaret de Neville, heir to Sir Robert Neville of Hornby († 1413), who brought the Hornby estate in Lancashire into the marriage.
He belonged to the retinue of the Prince of Wales and later King Henry V and fought under this in the Hundred Years War . He served as the royal standard-bearer at the Battle of Agincourt . Henry V accepted him as a Knight Companion in the Order of the Garter in 1417 at the latest . In 1419 he fought as royal standard bearer at the siege of Rouen and was badly wounded.
He was from 1408 several times as Sheriff of Yorkshire and temporarily held other royal offices in the Duchy of Lancaster , including 1428 the position of Chief Steward of the North . As a diplomat he was involved in negotiations with Scotland between 1423 and 1427 about the release of King James I of Scotland from English captivity and about the payment of the ransom in installments.
Literature and web links
- Harrington, Sir William (d.1440). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X ( online edition ).
- Sir William Haryngton on thepeerage.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles Mosley (ed.): Burke's Peerage and Baronetage . Volume 1, Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, Crans 1999, p. 14.
- ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 1, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 9.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harrington, William |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haryngton, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English knight |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 14th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1440 |