Family and Education
s. and h. of John Harrowden (d.1381/2) of Sibson, Hunts. and Great Harrowden. m. by 1389, Alice.Early Lincoln Wills ed. Gibbons, 49-50; CCR, 1385-9, p. 658. The genealogy of the Harrowden family compiled by G. Baker (Northants. ii. 96-97) is largely inaccurate where our MP is concerned. It is now impossible to tell if his reputed marriage to Elizabeth Stodley ever took place, but we can be certain that his father was called John, not William.
Offices Held
Commr. to make an arrest, Axon. July 1378, Northants. May 1393; of inquiry, Bucks. July 1379 (a murder at West Wycombe), Oxon. Apr. 1383 (dispute over grazing rights at Warborough), Northants. Dec. 1392 (liability for repairs to the highway at Towcester); to restore confiscated goods, Oxon. Jan. 1381, May 1383; suppress the rebels of 1381, Dec. 1381, Mar. 1382; of array Apr. 1385, Mar. 1392; oyer and terminer, Northants. Dec. 1391 (attack on Sulby abbey).
J.p. Oxon. 8 July 1382 – Nov. 1383, Northants. 20 Sept. 1392 – Mar. 1397, 28 Nov. 1399-May 1401.
Collector of a tax, Hunts. May 1384, Mar., Oct. 1393.
Escheator, Northants. 12 Dec. 1390–13 Feb. 1391.
Sheriff, Northants. 11 Nov. 1394–9 Nov. 1395.
Main residences: Heyford and Great Harrowden, Northants.; Chislehampton, Oxon.
Harendone, Harewdon, Haroundon(e), Harowden, Haruedoun, Harwdoun, Harweden
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Commons 1386-1421
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HARROWDEN, John
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Oxford 1644
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