Paternal Family Tree: Harrington
In 1601 [his grandfather] James Harrington 1st Baronet [aged 59] and [his grandmother] Anne Bernard were married. A double-wedding; his son married her daughter: [his father] Edward Harington 2nd Baronet and [his mother] Margaret Doyley [aged 23] were married.
On 30th December 1607 James Harington 3rd Baronet was born to Edward Harington 2nd Baronet and Margaret Doyley [aged 29].
On 2nd February 1614 [his grandfather] James Harrington 1st Baronet [aged 72] died. He was buried at Church of St Mary Magdalene and St Andrew, Ridlington [Map]. His son [his father] Edward succeeded 2nd Baronet Harington of Ridlington in Rutlandshire.
In or before 1635 James Harington 3rd Baronet [aged 27] and Katherine Wright Lady Harington [aged 17] were married.
Around 1635 [his son] Edmund Harington 4th Baronet was born to James Harington 3rd Baronet [aged 27] and [his wife] Katherine Wright Lady Harington [aged 18]. He married (1) August 1679 Sarah Alston Lady Harington (2) 6th September 1697 Abigail Vennour Lady Harington.
After 1636 [his son] Henry Harington was born to James Harington 3rd Baronet [aged 28] and [his wife] Katherine Wright Lady Harington [aged 19].
On or before 10th October 1639 [his son] Edward Harington 5th Baronet was born to James Harington 3rd Baronet [aged 31] and [his wife] Katherine Wright Lady Harington [aged 22]. He was baptised on 10th October 1639 at St Peter le Poer Church, Broad Street.
On 29th June 1644 the Battle of Cropredy Bridge was fought near Banbury, Oxfordshire [Map].
Robert Howard [aged 18] fought.
James Harington 3rd Baronet [aged 36] led out a brigade of suburban Trained Bands, the Tower Hamlets Regiment and the Southwark White Auxiliaries and the Westminster Yellow Auxiliaries, to join William Waller [aged 47] in the campaign that culminated at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge.
On 27th October 1644 Maurice Palatinate Simmern [aged 23] fought for the defeated Royalist army at the Second Battle of Newbury at Speen, Newbury [Map]. Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl Cleveland [aged 53] was captured. Edward St John [aged 27] was killed.
James Harington 3rd Baronet [aged 36], who had his horse shot from under him, commanded five regiments.
Mountjoy Blount 1st Earl Newport [aged 47] fought for the Royalist Army.
Anthony Mansel of Ischoed was killed fighting for the Royalists.
In 1646 James Harington 3rd Baronet [aged 38] was elected MP Rutland which seat he held until 1653.
On 29th January 1649 King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland [aged 48] fifty-seven commissioners signed King Charles' Death Warrant at Westminster Hall [Map]. Two further names were added subsequently.
10 Thomas Maulever 1st Baronet
14 Major-General William Goffe
21 Admiral Richard Deane
42 John Jones
45 Major General Charles Fleetwood
55 John Downes
57 Thomas Scot
58 John Carew
The commissioners who sat at the trial but did not sign the Death Warrant included:
William Monson 1st Viscount Monson [aged 50]
James Harington 3rd Baronet [aged 41]
The Captain of the Guard was Daniel Axtell [aged 27]. The guards included Francis Hacker, Matthew Tomlinson [aged 31].
The Solicitor-General was John Cook [aged 41].
In 1652 [his father] Edward Harington 2nd Baronet died. His son James [aged 44] succeeded 3rd Baronet Harington of Ridlington in Rutlandshire. [his wife] Katherine Wright Lady Harington [aged 35] by marriage Lady Harington of Ridlington in Rutlandshire.
In 1654 James Harington 3rd Baronet [aged 46] was elected MP Middlesex which seat he held until 1655.
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1654. William Faithorne "The Elder" [aged 38]. Portrait of James Harington 3rd Baronet [aged 46].
In 1658 [his mother] Margaret Doyley [aged 80] died.
On 29th August 1660 the Indemnity and Oblivion Act became law. The act was a general pardon for everyone who had committed crimes during the Civil War and Interregnum with the exception of certain crimes such as murder (without a licence granted by King or Parliament), piracy, buggery, rape and witchcraft, and people named in the act such as those involved in the regicide of Charles I.
Henry Mildmay [aged 67] was excepted from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act.
James Harington 3rd Baronet [aged 52] was exempted. In 1661 his Baronetcy was forfeit for life.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 7th September 1665. Thence to Brainford, reading "The Villaine", a pretty good play, all the way. There a coach of Mr. Povy's [aged 51] stood ready for me, and he at his house ready to come in, and so we together merrily to Swakely, Sir R. Viner's [aged 34]. A very pleasant place, bought by him of Sir James Harrington's [aged 57] [his wife] lady [aged 48]. He took us up and down with great respect, and showed us all his house and grounds; and it is a place not very moderne in the garden nor house, but the most uniforme in all that ever I saw; and some things to excess. Pretty to see over the screene of the hall (put up by Sir Mr. Harrington, a Long Parliamentman) the King's head, and my Lord of Essex [aged 33] on one side, and Fairfax on the other; and upon the other side of the screene, the parson of the parish, and the lord of the manor and his sisters. The window-cases, door-cases, and chimnys of all the house are marble. He showed me a black boy that he had, that died of a consumption, and being dead, he caused him to be dried in an oven, and lies there entire in a box.
In 1675 [his wife] Katherine Wright Lady Harington [aged 58] died.
Around August 1679 [his son] Edmund Harington 4th Baronet [aged 44] and [his daughter-in-law] Sarah Alston Lady Harington were married. There was no issue from the marriage.
In 1680 James Harington 3rd Baronet [aged 72] died in exile in Europe. His son Edmund [aged 45] succeeded 4th Baronet Harington of Ridlington in Rutlandshire. Sarah Alston Lady Harington by marriage Lady Harington of Ridlington in Rutlandshire.
Kings Wessex: Great x 26 Grand Son of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 22 Grand Son of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 24 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 22 Grand Son of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Kings France: Great x 21 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 25 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Harrington 
15 x Great Grandson of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Harrington 16 x Great Grandson of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Alexander Harrington 17 x Great Grandson of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 1 Grandfather: James Harrington 18 x Great Grandson of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Moton of Peckleton in Leicestershire
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Moton
Grandfather: James Harrington 1st Baronet 19 x Great Grandson of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 4 Grandfather: William IV Sidney 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Nicholas Sidney
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Sidney
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Brandon 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Brandon
Great x 1 Grandmother: Lucy Sidney
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Pakenham
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh Pakenham
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Pakenham
father: Edward Harington 2nd Baronet 20 x Great Grandson of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Sapcote of Elton
Grandmother: Frances Sapcote
James Harington 3rd Baronet 21 x Great Grandson of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas D'Oyley
Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Doyley
Grandfather: John Doyley
mother: Margaret Doyley
Great x 1 Grandfather: Francis Barnard
Grandmother: Anne Bernard