Robert Harington, 3rd Baron Harington to his daughter Isabella of England (1332–1382), wife of Enguerrand VII, Lord of Coucy, 1st Earl of Bedford (1340–1397). He exited wardship having attained his majority of 21 and in 1377 was knighted at the coronation of King Richard II (1377-1399). He rebuilt his ancestral seat as a castle, recorded for the first time in 1389 as Gleaston Castle. He married twice: He died on 21 May 1406 at Aldingham. Robert Harington, 3rd Baron Harington Robert Harington, 3rd Baron Harington (1356-1406) of Gleaston Castle in the manor of Aldingham in Furness, Lancashire, was an English peer. He was born at
Edmund de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract his mother Margaret de Quincy and on her death would have inherited the Earldom of Lincoln that vested in her. (His father had only been Earl by rights of his wife.) As he predeceased his mother he never became the Earl of Lincoln. He was an important landholder in northern England, with a strategic manor at Stanbury which was important for east-west communication, and as Lord of the Honour of Pontefract he possessed Pontefract Castle. He was brought up at the royal court of Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence, and made a 'Savoyard' marriage to one of