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Birth:          ABT 1227 Barrington Hall, Essex, England
Death:          AFT 1272 

Notes
from ancestry.com
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I17150
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, on his father's death, succeeded to his estates and office: 
by virtue of which last he appears to have summoned to his forest court all the 
Regarders, Verderers and Agistors of the forest of Essex. He and his uncle Warin were 
witnesses to Richard de Montfichet's endowment of the Priory of Tremhall in the parish 
of Stanstead Montfichet. This Priory was founded by Gilbert de Montfichet, but his son 
Richard was its great benefactor, endowing it largely with lands and contributing 
greatly to the expense of the buildings. It was dedicated to St James, and possessed 
property in Stanstead, Takeley, Little Clacton and Birchanger, with the advowson of 
the church of Stanstead, and, at one time, of that of Takeley also. Sir Warin de 
Barentone was buried at Tremhall, as were several others of the barringtons. It was 
the burying place also of the Montfichets and some of the De Veres. The Montfichet 
family became extinct in the male line in the reign of King Henry the Third and Camden 
says, "The Barrington family are greatly enriched by the estates of the Montfichets 
which fell to them."

Sir Nicholas de Barenton was married twice, first to Mary daughter of John Boville, by 
whom he had not any issue, and secondly to Joan daughter of Sir Ralph Montoft, by 
whom he had several sons, of whom the names of Nicholas, Humphrey, Hugh, Richard 
and Geoffrey, are found, and will be mentioned hereafter. He had also five daughters, 
Margaret, wife of Sir james Umpharaville, Isabella, wife of John de Sidneia, Agatha, 
Cicely and Joyce. Nicholas his eldest son, married Agnes daughter of Sir William 
Chetwynd, and had three sons, Nicholas, John and George, and one daughter 
Isabella, who married Ralph de Coggeshall. Nicholas died before his father in the reign 
of King Henry the Third, having made his will in writing and

"thereby comended his soul to God and his body to be buried in Triplow Church, and 
gave to the lady Agnes his wife one cart and all his hogges and sheep, and the 
moveable utensils of his house and all the corn on the lands of William Mulciter, and 
all his land that he had in the town of Triplow which he had by purchase or gift. Item, 
to Sir Hount the vicar five marks. To his sone John six marks. To William Gernon forth 
shillings. Item, to a certain chapel at Wiliabere one mark, and twenty sheep there 
being. Item, twenty shillings to satisfy the wages of his servants detained. Item, to 
Humphrey his brother a horse, and he constituted Sir Nicholas his father, Humphrey 
his brother, the lady Agnes his wife, Sir John de Mickelfield, and Simon de Ashwell, 
his executors to dispose of all his goods moveable and immoveable for the health of 
his soul."

(This will is still in existence, but is nearly illegible. It has apparently been wetted with 
some mixture to shew the fading ink more clearly, but the liquid applied has itself 
become black, and has thus almost obliterated what it meant to clear.)

Some rather curious parts of this will are not named in the MS. account of it copied 
above. It begins--

"In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. This is the will of Nicholas de 
barenton which he made in the night next after the feast of St. Botolph, before 
midnight, in te presence of Sir Adam the vicar of Triplow, William Gernon, the lady 
Agnes wife of the said Nicholas, Geoffrey the clerk, and John the said Nicholas' 
servant. First he leaves his soul to God, the Blessed Mary and all Saints, his body to 
be buried at Tremhall, and to the Church at Triplow his best horse, and his best ox, 
and, for a wax candle to burn before the alter there, four quarters of barley and his 
bed, and to the altar of St. Nicholas at Tremhall three quarters of wheat and three 
quarters of draget."

It then goes on with the legacies as before stated. The MS. names Triplow as the 
place where his body is to be buried. The will says Tremhal.

Barrington Hall at Triplow in Cambridgeshire was settled by Sir Nicholas on his son 
Nicholas at his marriage to Agnes, and there, after her husbands death, she continued 
to reside. Humphrey, the second son of Sir Nicholas, was married to a lady whose 
Christian name was Auda, but her family name does not appear anywhere. More of him 
and his wife, Auda, will be mentioned hereafter.

The following is an account of an enquiry held at Hatfield in which Geoffrey the son of 
Sir Nicholas is named: it is taken from an old roll endorsed "Sureties for Richard Child 
and Geoffrey de Barenton to shew by what authority they removed a stag, found dead 
at Hatfield, before it had been seen by the verderers."

COURT AT HATFIELD

It happened Sunday in the Octave of St. Hilary in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of 
King Henry, son of King John, that as Clement Godcop was going to the monastery of 
Hatfield Regis, he saw a stag lying dead in one of Agnes de Bosco's Fields, called the 
Eastfield. He immediately informed Geoffrey de Barenton, the woodward, who ordered 
the foresters and verderers to summon a jury from four neighbouring towns, viz., 
Hatfield Regis, Hallingbury de Burgh, Hallingbury Neville, and Earls Canfield. The men 
of Hatfield said they neither knew, nor had they heard anything as to the cause of the 
stag's death, although they thought that most likely it had been caused by murrain as 
there was no wound that they could discover. The other jurors said the same.

The tithing men of Hatfield, namely, Richard Child and Roger Holdhead; those of 
Canfield namely, William de Beauchamp, and Jocelin Fitzmaurice; those of Hallingbury 
de Burgh, namely Roger de Kastenhe, and Roger de Bosco, were all ordered to attend 
before the Justices of the forest courts, when they were next sitting to hear pleas.--
Clement Godcop, Agnes de Bosco, and her four nearest neighbours were likewise 
bound over to be at the same court and to find sureties for their appearance. Those 
who were sureties for Clement Godcop were William le Botciler and Stephen the son of 
Ernulph, those for Agnes were Richard Duchar and John Arnewy, Nicholas Fitzralph, 
Peter Fitzwilliam, Geoffrey Fitzmichael, William de Haslingfield, William de Livething, 
Walter le Newman, Roger Strongbow, and Roger Fitzwido were bound for the 
appearance of the four neighbours of Agnes. The head and horns of the stag were 
ordered to be carefully kept till the court by Richard Child.

Parents
BARRINGTON Humphrey III (ABT 1195 - )
DE MANDEVILLE Amicia (Anne) (ABT 1207 - )

Siblings
BARRINGTON Nicholas (ABT 1227 - AFT 1272)

Marriage To DE MONTOFT Joan (ABT 1230 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE MONTOFT Ralph (ABT 1196 - )
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Children by DE MONTOFT Joan ABT 1230 - 
BARRINGTON Nicholas (ABT 1248 - BEF 1272)

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