Sir Michael Smith of Carrington, {Fictional}

This person is fictional, and part of a major genealogical hoax.

The Smyth-Carrington line is, according to J. Horace Round, a fiction. The line has been based on a work by Dr. Walter Arthur Copinger -- History and Records of the Smith-Carington Family, from 1901, which is itself full of misreadings, inaccuracies, and sheer inventions, and is furthermore based on an earlier work, The Pedigree and Exploits in Foreign Countries of John Carrington, Armiger, which, though supposedly written in 1446, was itself not only a fabrication, but a forgery, written in the 17th century. See Round, J. Horace, Peerage and Pedigree: Studies in Peerage, Law and Family History, first published in 1910, and republished in Baltimore by the Genealogical Publishing Company in 1970 -- chapter 2 is the relevant one here, The Great Carington Imposture. The work is available online at https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE2226... (March 31, 2017; Anne Brannen, curator)

legendary profile

Take this with many grains of salt:

In 1399 when King Richard II was deposed, Michael's descendant, John of Carrington had to flee the country and changed his name to (back to??) Smythe and later returned to England.

John Smythe considered to be the founder of the 'Templar" Smyths of Cressing Temple. This suggests that that Sir Michael Smythe (Carrington) in 1187 was associated with the Templar Order.

http://www.trinity-aloha.org/smith/

Sir MICHAEL of CARRINGTON (SMYTHE), b. d.

• Joined the Third Crusade in 1187 A.D. led by King Richard Coeur de Lion.
• Standard Bearer for King Richard I. A version of King Richard's initial battle flag to the right - now with three red lions. The crosses crosslet will become a reoccuring symbol in the male line of the Smythes.
• Scaled the walls of Acre with four other men and opened the gates to the armies of the Crusades.
• Knighted at the Siege of Acre by King Richard I in 1191 and given Aston Hall.
• Motto Exaltabit Honore may come from Psalm 112, “His horn shall be exalted.” Supposed to have gained the motto at the siege of Acre, where Michael Carrington behaved with such courage that Richard Coeur de Lion took off his crown and placed it over the helm, bearing a unicorn’s head, of our ancestor. Or... it may have come from Psalm 92, in which the actual words “horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn” appear with the belligerent reference to enemies seems more appropriate to a Crusader.
• Died in the Holy Land.

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William of Carrington Smith Smythe + William Smith Parents Sir Adam of Carrington Smyth 1154 -- 1192 Lady ______ Smith Carrington 1154 -- 1200 Spouses Lady Michael Carrington (+3)

   Cecily Massey (+2)

http://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.cfm/Sir-Michael-Lord-Carrington-Sm...[Sir Michael Lord Carrington Smyth] Birth 1170 England, Cheshire, Carrington

Death England, Cheshire, Carrington 

Please note that the Carrington / Smith pedigree was fabricated in the Tudor Era and further embelleshed in the Victorian Era, and exposed by J. Horace Round, "the father of modern genealogy," in his 1910 article, Page 137 of Peerage and pedigree : studies in peerage law and family history, vol. 2. "The Great Carington Imposture."

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