John HARINGTON & Etheldreda MALTE & Isabella MARKHAM

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John HARINGTON, Treasurer — of Kelston, Somerset
Etheldreda MALTE
Lady Isabella MARKHAM

Husband: John HARINGTON
Birth: 1525, of Stepney, LND, and/or Kelston, SOM
Death: 1 Jul 1582, Lambeth, LND
Disposition: buried 15 Mar 1583, St. Gregory's by St. Paul's, LND
Employment: confidential servant and treasurer for Henry VIII
Father: Alexander HARINGTON (c1500-1539), of Stepney, LND

Marriage-1:

Wife-1: Ethelreda MALTE, a.k.a., Audrey MALTE
Birth: ca. 1527
Biological Father: King Henry VIII
Social Father: John MATLE, the royal tailor
Mother: Joan DINGLEY / Joanna DYNGLEY, the royal laundress

Ethelreda is said to be the illegitimate daughter of King Henry VIII, although he never acknowledged her. He is also said to have bribed John MATLE to claim he was her father, though John did not marry Joan, so Ethelreda was born out of wedlock. It is said the King's favor towards Ethelreda was the foundation of our subject's rise in status and prosperity.

Marriage-2: 1559

Wife: Isabella MARKHAM, a.k.a., Lady HARINGTON
Birth: 28 Mar 1527, of Allerton / Ollerton, NTT
Death: 20 May 1579, London, LND
Disposition: buried St. Gregory's by St. Paul's, London, LND
Father: Sir John MARKHAM, Knight (1500-1559) — extensive pedigree in LDS Ancestral File
Mother: Anne STRELLEY — some say NEVILLE

Child with Ethelreda MALTE:

1. Hester HARINGTON, b. ca. 1540s; d. 1568

Children — born in Kelston, SOM:

2. Elizabeth HARINGTON, b. 1559/60
3. John HARINGTON, b. 1561
4. Robert HARINGTON, b. ca. 1563?; d. 6 Dec 1601, Bourne, LIN
5. Francis HARINGTON, b. 1564; d. 22 Jan 1639, Kelston, SOM
6. James HARINGTON, b. 1565; d. 1592, ENG

Keywords for search engines: genealogy; GBR, UK, United Kingdom, England, Notts, Nottinghamshire, Linconshire, Somerset

Sources:

1. LDS. Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service: AF - Ancestral File (online at FamilySearch.org).

2. Wikipedia: John Harington (treasurer) [our subject]; Ethelreda Malte.; Isabella Markham.

3. Wikipedia: John Harington (writer) [our subject's son]. It is said his grandfather was Alexander HARINGTON of Stepney. It also states that his relationship to John HARINGTON, 1st Baron Harington of Exton, "has not been established."

3a. Jorge H. Castelli. John HARRINGTON of Kelston [genealogy of our subject] (online at Tudor Place). Gives our subject's father as John HARRINGTON of Exton or Alexander HARRINGTON.

3b. Jorge H. Castelli. Sir John HARRINGTON, Knight [biographical sketch of our subject] (online at Tudor Place).

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