He fathered 2 sons, Henry and William and 7 daughters, Elizabeth, Joan, Blanch, Mary (Dobbyns), Cecilia, Frances (Unett), and Alice (Herring).
The Lingen family had long been settled in that county and are recorded in early documents including Doomsday Book.
Elisabeth also shared common descent with the Royal House of Tudor with a grandmother being a sister of Margaret ferch Thomas who married Fychan Tudor and was grandmother of Henry VII, and another of these sisters Ellen ferch Thomas being the mother of Owain Glyndŵr "Prince of Wales".
[citation needed] During the Civil War he was again appointed High Sheriff of the county in 1643 [1] and commanded Goodrich Castle, defending it against the Parliamentarians until July 1646 when Colonel John Birch finally broke the defences using the famous cannon Roaring Meg.
After the Civil War, Sir Henry retired to Stoke Edith "The Fairer House of the Lingens" near Hereford but was fined heavily by Parliament of the sum of six thousand pounds for supporting the former King.
[4] The Herefordshire folk song Sir Harry's Fancy was based upon his Civil War days and sung by his troops after his surrender of Goodrich Castle.