Elizabeth (Harrington) Stanley (abt. 1386 - aft. 1445)

Born about 1386 in Lancashire, England

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Elizabeth Harrington was born circa 1386 perhaps at Farleton in Melling, Lancashire, England, the primary residence of her parents, Sir Nicholas Harrington, MP, and his wife, Isabella English, the daughter of Sir William English.^[1]

She married John Stanley, the son of Sir John Stanley, Lord Lieutenant & Justiciary of Ireland, Justice of Chester, Governor of the City & County of Chester, Constable of Windsor Castle and his wife, Isabella Lathom, before 1405. They had three sons and two daughters:^[1]

• Thomas Stanley, K.G.,^[2] married Joan Goushill^[1]
• Richard Stanley, Archdeacon of Chester^[1][3]
• Edward Stanley, Archdeacon of Chester^[1][3]
• Alice Stanley, married (1) Thomas Dutton, Esq., (2) John Wolton^[1]
• Isabel Stanley, married John Warren, Esq.^[1]

Elizabeth Harrington died after 22 March 1445, when she made an agreement with Richard Towneley for the marriage of his eldest son, John, and Isabel Sherburne, the daughter of her recently departed sister, Agnes Sherburne.^[4]

Research Notes

• Other sources have named other parents for the wife of Sir John Stanley. See the Research Note pertaining to his Wife in the profile of Sir John.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry. Salt Lake City, UT: published by the author, 2013. Volume V, p 26.
2. ↑ Rylands, J. P. (Editor). The Visitation of Chester in the Year 1580 and 1566, 1533, & 1591. London, England: 1882. p 213.[[1]]
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Wikipedia: Archdeacon of Chester[[2]] -- accessed 7 Nov 2018.
4. ↑ Langton, William (Editor). Abstracts of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. II. Manchester, England: The Chetham Society, 1876. Volume XCIX, pp 58 - 61.[[3]]

See also:

• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/HARRINGTON.htm#Elizabeth HARRINGTON2
• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p364.htm#i10923
• Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 678.
• Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 89.
• http://www.geni.com/people/Isabel-Harrington/6000000011624123446
• Burkes Peerage 2003 volume 1, page 1101
• http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p24759.htm#i247583
• Marlyn Lewis
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_II_Stanley_of_the_Isle_of_Man
• Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edn. (2011), 3 vols, Volume 3, page 265. A footnote says that her granddaughter Margaret Stanley was a great-granddaughter of Sir Nicholas Harrington, according to the papal dispensation issued for her marriage to her 2nd cousin John Boteler.
• Crosten's History of Lancashire and Cheshire, pp. 242-248 and 253, etc.
• Thoresby's House of Leeds, Vol. 2, p. 199.
• Harlien Soc. Pub., Visitation of Chester, Vol. 18, p. 140.
• Ormerod History of Cheshire, Vol. 3, p. 306.
• Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol. 6, p. 314/5.

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