Edmund de Portington, Esq.

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Pedigree
ChartsAncestors of Harriet Hanson Robinson
Edmund de Portington, Esq., son of Sir Nicholas de Portington, Knt., was born about 1315.1 He died after 1383, when he was a tax collector for the East Riding, Yorkshire.1

Without hard evidence, Hunt suggests Edmund's wife was an unnamed daughter of Robert Bosville and Joan de Furnival (daughter of Sir Thomas de Furnival Knt., 2nd Lord Furnival. Hunt's reasoning includes: the use of arms on his grandson's tomb, the use of martlets as an armorial device by his son, Thomas, and a close association between Bosvile descendants and later Portingtons. Richardson does not mention any such daughter.1,2

Family
Children
  • Thomas de Portington+3 b. say 1360, d. aft. 23 Jan 1440
  • John Portington1 b. abt. 1361, d. abt. 1430
  • Robert Portington1 b. abt. 1365, d. abt. 1440
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Citations

  1. [S2729] John G. Hunt, "The Early Portyngtons of Portington," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 116 (Jul 1962): 166-176, at 167, further cited as Hunt, "Early Portingtons."
  2. [S1947] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Five volumes (Salt Lake City, Utah: s.p., 2013), 3: 50 ( Furnival 11.vi), further cited as Richardson, Royal Ancestry.
  3. [S950] Joseph Foster, Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Two volumes (London: W. Wilfred Head, 1874), 1:3 (Portington), further cited as Foster, Pedigrees of Yorkshire.