Sir John Lingen II was born in 1280, in Lingen, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom as the son of Sir John II Lingen. He married Lady Maud de Lingen in 1285, in Market Drayton, Shropshire, England. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died in 1295, in his hometown, at the age of 15.
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German; Dutch (Van Lingen): habitational name from Lingen on the Ems river in Lower Saxony, Westphalia, and the former East Prussia.
English (Herefordshire): habitational name from a place in Herefordshire, so named from an old British stream name, Welsh llyn ‘water’ + possibly cain ‘clear, beautiful’.
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