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Birth:          BEF 1133 Barrington Hall, Essex, England
Death:          BEF 1185 Hatfield Peverel, Essex, England

Notes
from ancestry.com
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I17157
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:

Eustace died in the reign of King Stephen and was succeeded by his eldest son, 
Humphrey de Barenton, to whom William de Mountfitchet confirmed all the forest rights 
he had before granted to Humphrey's father Eustace, to be held as well and honorably 
as his father held them; and this grant he made by the advice of his wife Margaret, 
and of his good men and true. King Stephen confirmed this grant and those from Henry 
the First, and also his own as to holding all the lands his father had held, and in a 
second Charter he ordered that he should hold freely his lands "in Hadfeld and Writtle 
and Hadfield and Havering and Witherfeld." This shows him a landowner at Hatfield 
Peverell as well as Hatfield Regis. Indeed Chauncy, in his history of Hertfordshire, 
states that the Barringtons, in the time of King Henry the First, held lands in 
Rameldon, Hatfield Peverell, Writtle, Ravensfield, Havering, Barking, Slyford, Chigwell 
and Shelton in addition to Hatfield Regis. There is not a grant now extant to shew that 
this was the case, and most probably some of these lands came into the possession of 
the family much later.
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King Henry the Second gave to Humphrey de Barenton a full confirmation of the grant 
from his grandfather, Henry the First, to Eustace de Barenton, of the Forestership and 
the lands given with it. After the death of William de Mountfitchet his son Gilbert 
confirmed his father's grant to Humphrey de Barenton. And Geoffrey de Mandeville, 
who had been created Earl of Essex, gave Humphrey a confirmation of the grant he 
had formerly given him jointly with his father Eustace. Humphrey de Barenton had also 
a confirmation of a grant to his father from Aubrey de Vere of the Manor of Chigwell 
and of lands there.

Of this grant there is only a copy to be found. These Chigwell estates remained the 
property of the Barrington family to the time of Queen Elizabeth when they were sold 
by Sir Thomas Barrington. Morant states:

"From the Feodary of the de Veres, Earls of Oxford, it is manifest that the following 
persons of the name of Barrington held the Manor of Chigwell under them ---- George 
Barrington in 1263, William Barrington in 1270, Geoffrey Barrington in the reign of King 
Edward the First, Geoffrey Barrington in 1429, John Barrington in 1447, and Thomas 
Barrington in 1466, Margaret wife of Thomas Barrington that died in 1479 held jointly 
with him the Manor of Little Chigwell, called Barrington's Manor, of Anne Duchess of 
Buckingham, as part of her hundred of Ongar by the service of doing suit at the 
Sheriff's court in that hundred, and a rent of six pence per annum."

All the above names will be mentioned hereafter with exception of the second 
Geoffrey of whom there is not any trace. The first one named was one of the sons of 
Sir Nicholas, son of Sir Humphrey. He is mentioned as Woodward in the reign of King 
Henry the Third. The dates to the two first named in the extract are most probably 
incorrect, as the only George to be found was great nephew to William, who is here 
placed after him in 1270. Thomas Barrington, it will clearly be shown, died in 1470, not 
1479.

Humphrey de Barenton had also a grant, from King Stephen, of lands in Ramsden, 
Barking, and Birchanger, which was confirmed by King Henry the Second; but neither 
of these charters is to be found. He was a witness to the foundation charter of 
Woodham Priory, and a benefactor to the Abbey of Waltham. His wife was Griselda, 
daughter of Ralph de Marcy, and he inherited in her right the Manor of Kelvendon with 
lands there. This Ralph de Marcy had lands also at Hatfield, as it is stated in 
Doomsday Boom, that half a hide of land had been recovered, formerly held by a 
Socman under Earl Harold, but which Ralph de Marcy then held. Humphrey had three 
sons, Humphrey, Warine and Richard, the names of the two latter are found in deeds 
and will be mentioned hereafter. The eldest Sir Humphrey de Barenton succeeded his 
father in his estates and office, being then a minor and ward of King Henry the 
Second.

Parents
BARRINGTON Eustace (ABT 1110 - )
DE MONTFORD Maud (Matilda) (ABT 1115 - )

Siblings
BARRNGTON Humphrey I (BEF 1133 - BEF 1185)

Marriage To DE MARCY Griselda (ABT 1140 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE MARCY Ralph (ABT 1114 - )
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Children by DE MARCY Griselda ABT 1140 - 
BARRINGTON Humphrey II (ABT 1165 - BEF 1216)

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