John Harington, 1st Baron Harington

[6] Harington was descended from Æthelred the Unready and his first wife Ælfgifu of York (daughter of Thored, Earl of Northumbria) by way of his mother, Agnes de Cansfield.

[7] He was knighted on 22 May 1306 and was summoned to military service in October 1309 when he accompanied Edward, Prince of Wales on a trip to Scotland.

Upon leaving the military in March 1335, he became involved with his local council and later became a member of English Parliament in 1326 until his death in 1347.

He held the manors of Aldingham, Thurnham, and Ulverston in Lancashire and Witherslack and Hutton Roof in Westmorland, with further estates in Austwick and Harrington in Cumberland.

According to Findagrave # 71719420, John married twice: First to Margaret de Barlingham (died 1307) having issue: Secondly to Joan de Dacre (probably a member of the Dacre family of Naworth Castle),[9] by whom he had one child: He died on 2 June 1347 at Aldingham[10] and was buried in Cartmel Priory, formerly in Lancashire, now in Cumbria,[11] where survives his monument with effigies of himself and his wife.