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Birth:          ABT 1270 Barrington Hall, Essex, England
Death:          BEF 1336 

Notes
from ancestry.com
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I17145
From "Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society", Vol I, Colchester, pp 251-
273, The History of the Barrington Family, at 
www.southfrm.demon.co.uk/Genealogy/Barr.html:

Sir Nicholas de Barenton was steward to Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale, and had 
from him a quit-claim of an annual rent of twenty-one shillings, payable out of lands 
held under him at Hatfield, reserving only sixpence to be paid each year at 
Michaelmas, the keeping in order thirteen perches of the fence round the park, and 
the payment of any tax the King might impose.

There is a curious patent from King Edward the Second, dated York, September 4th, 
in the 18th year of his reign, and sealed with his Privy seal, which is still attached to 
the letter and nearly perfect; it is in red wax, three leopards, or lions, passant.

The letter states that the King was informed that Robert de Brus was bound to 
Nicholas de Barenton for the payment of the sum of eighty pounds for cloth and other 
things that Nicholas had bought for him, Nicholas being his steward for his lands in 
Essex, with which money Nicholas was willing to aid his Majesty's dear and faithful 
subject Sir Thomas de Mandeville in part of his ransom, he being detained in prison by 
the Scots. That the said Robert de Brus was ready to pay that sum to the said Sir 
Thomas de Mandeville, at such time as Nicholas de Barenton should send him an 
acquittance for the money, which acquittance could not be made or sent without 
special license from the King; his majesty, therefore, at the request of his dear sister 
the Countess of Hereford by these letters, gave leave that Nicholas might make the 
required acquittance to the aforesaid Robert de Brus, without any hindrance or 
challenge from the King, or his heirs, or any of his officers whatsoever.

Sir Nicholas had by his wife Alice Belhouse four sons, Nicholas who succeeded him, 
Thomas, Roger, and Philip. Of Thomas and Roger there is not any trace; Philip married 
Margaret daughter of Sir William Tey; he was knighted and resided at Rayleigh, as did 
his son Nicholas who was keeper of the King's park there. This Nicholas married 
Margaret Cloville and had a son John, who was the last male representative of this 
branch of the Barringtons. He and his wife Thomasine were buried at Rayleigh, where 
there was formerly a monument to their memory. They had an only daughter, and 
heiress, Thomasine, she was thrice married: first to William Lunsford, of Lunsford in 
Sussex; secondly to William Sydney, of Penshurst in kent; and thirdly to John Hopton, 
of Cockfield Hall in the parish of Yoxford in Suffolk; in the church of which they place 
her daughter by her second husband, William Sydney, is buried. Her son by her first 
husband, William Lunsford, whose name was also William, succeed on her death to 
the property called Barringtons, at Rayleigh. She is named as Thomasine Hopton in a 
memorandum dated 1459, which will be mentioned in the account of the next owner of 
the estates.

In an agreement between Sir Nicholas and the Lady Joan de Barenton his 
grandmother, she released to him lands that had been settled upon her in Triplow, 
Hatfield, Writtle, Chigwell, Ramsden, Ballinhatch, Springfield, Stanstead, and Ongar, 
on receiving from him an annuity of fourteen marks for her life. To this agreement she 
appointed her son Hugh a trustee. It is dated September 30th, 1283, and was no 
doubt made to enable Sir Nicholas to make a settlement on his marriage. There is 
another deed without date, most likely made to enable Sir Nicholas to make a 
settlement on his marriage. There is another deed without date, most likely made at 
the same time, by which Humphrey de Barenton granted and quit-claimed to his 
nephew Nicholas, son of his brother Nicholas, all his right to manors and lands in 
Hatfield Regis and Writtle, and to all other manors and lands in Hatfield Regis and 
Writtle, and to all other lands and tenements whatsoever, of which his father Sir 
Nicholas had been in possession. This Humphrey died before the 12th of Edward the 
First, as by an agreement, dated on the Friday before the feast of St Gregory. in the 
12th of King Edward, Auda, widow of Humphrey de Barenton, granted and quit-claimed 
to Nicholas de Barenton all the right she had, by way of dower, on the death of her 
husband, in lands, gardens, homages, rents, arable lands, pastures, meadows, 
growing crops, &c., from the feast of St Michael, in the 11th year of King Edward, for 
seven years, on her receiving a yearly payment of twenty shillings.

The exact time of the death of Sir Nicholas does not appear; he is found as a witness 
to a deed in 1330, and must have died soon after, as in 1336 his eldest son, Nicholas 
Barenton, was in possession of the estates.

Parents
BARRINGTON Nicholas (ABT 1248 - BEF 1272)
CHETWYND Agnes (Alice) (ABT 1250 - AFT 1272)

Siblings
BARRINGTON Nicholas (ABT 1270 - BEF 1336)

Marriage To BELLHOUSE Alice (ABT 1270 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
BELLHOUSE John (ABT 1243 - )
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Children by BELLHOUSE Alice ABT 1270 - 
BARRINGTON Nicholas (ABT 1290 - AFT 1343)
BARRINGTON Philip (ABT 1310 - )

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