William (Allington) Alington Knt. (abt. 1365 - 1446)

Born about 1365 in Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, England

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Died 19 Oct 1446 at about age 81 in Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, England

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Biography

Sir William Alington, Knt., (d.1446) of Bottisham & Horseheath Manors, Cambridgeshire, was descended from Sir Hildebrand de Alington, Under-Marshall to William 'The Conqueror' at the battle of Hastings.

This Sir William Alington appears in 1397 & 1416 holding land at Horseheath. He was Speaker of the House of Commons 1429-30, and Treasurer of The Exchequer of Ireland, &c. He was Sheriff of the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon in 1438.

He married Joanna, daughter of Sir William Burghe, Knight Banneret, Lord Chief-Justice of the King's Bench. His two sons, Sir William, of Horseheath, and Robert, of Bottisham, both married daughters of the famous Sir John Argentyne, Knt., of Great Wymondeley Manor, Hertfordshire, by his wife Margaret Calthorpe (1380-1427).

In his 1446 Will the manor of Horseheath Hall is mentioned, a manor which had previously been held by the de Audley family under the Earls of Richmond. This de Audley manor was the first of the three Horseheath manors to pass to the Alington family. By 1428 the second manor, of Limbery, had already passed to this Sir William Alington.

This profile is part of the Alington Name Study.

An extensive and documented article on the career and family of William Alington is available in this article by JS Roskell

Sources

• History of the Commmoners of Great Britain and Ireland by John Burke, Esq., vol.1, London, 1834, p.571.

• Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire by Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., LL.D., Ulster King of Arms, London, 1883, p.4.

• The Visitation of Cambridge, made in 1575 & 1619 , edited by John W. Clay, F.S.A., London, 1897, pps.14-17.

• See also the earlier publication: "The Cambridgeshire Visitation" by Henry St.George, 1619, (from MSS. Phillipps, No.63, Edited by Sir T.Banks. Bart., and published by C.Gilmour, 1840), contains a large pedigree on page 2, of Alington, of Battersham, [sic] upon which can be seen this gentleman and his wife and their children.

• Horseheath Hall and its Owners by Catherine E. Parsons, in the Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol.xli, 1943-47.

• Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society LII (1959).

• The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire by Sir Henry Chauncey (RJCW Ref 75)

• http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-1895-1/dissemination/pdf/PCAS/1959_LII/PCAS_LII_1959_030-042_Roskell.pdf