Agnes (Harrington) Sherburne (abt. 1375 - 1444)

Ancestors

Wife of Richard Sherburne — married before 4 Aug 1391 in England

Descendants

Died 1444 at about age 69 in England

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Biography

Agnes was the daughter of Nicholas Harrington and Isabel English.^[1][2]

She married Richard Sherburne of Stonyhurst before 4 August 1391.^[1] They had the following children^[1]:

• Richard
• Robert, mentioned in her Will^[3][4]
• John, mentioned in her Will^[3][4]
• Nicholas, mentioned in her Will^[3][4]
• James, mentioned in her Will^[3][4]
• Elizabeth, mentioned in her Will, mentioned in her Will^[3][4]
• Alice, mentioned in her Will^[3][4]
• Isabel, mentioned in her Will^[3][4]
• Mabel, mentioned in her Will^[3][4]

Her Will was dated 3 November 1444 and proved on 30 November 1444.^[1] In it she left bequests to her sister Elizabeth Stanley, her sons Robert, John, Nicholas and James, and her daughters Alice Tempest, Elizabeth, Mabel and Isabel. Thomas Stanley and Robert Harrington, who were her nephews^[5], were named as overseers of the Will. One of the executors was John Tempest, probably the husband of her daughter Alice.^[3][4]

Research Notes

It used to be thought by some that Agnes, wife of Richard Sherburne, was a daughter of Sir William Stanley of Hooton and hence had Stanley as her last name at birth. This is reflected in Charles Davies Sherborn's book on the Sherborn family history^[3] and in Testamenta Eboracensia edited by James Raine, though James Raine acknowledged that the Stanley parentage had been questioned.^[4] This view has now been discredited. For fuller discussion, see Douglas Hickling's 2004 post initiating a discussion in soc.medieval.genealogy.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), volume IV, p.204, TOWNELEY 8
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013, volume V, pp.177-178
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9} Charles Davies Sherborn. A History of the Family Sherborn, Mitchell & Hughes, London, 1901, pp. 15-16
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9} James Raine. Testamenta Eboracensia, part II, Surtees Society 1834, pp. 105-106
5. ↑ John S Roskell. "Knights of the Shire for the County Palatine of Lancaster", Chetham Society, vol. 96, 1937, pp. 123, 127-128, and 179
6. ↑ Douglas Hickling. Who were the parents of Richard Sherburne's wife Agnes, and of Isabel (Sherburne) Towneley and Agnes (Sherburne) Rishton?, 25 May 2004, accessed 1 May 2019

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013. See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.
• Sherborn, Charles Davies. A History of the Family Sherborn, Mitchell & Hughes, London, 1901

Acknowledgements

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