15208896.
Lord William le Latimer
& 15208897. Alice Ledet
~1240,
William le Latymer born in England, s/o 30417792. William le Latymer.
~1251, Alice
born in England, coheir & d/o 30417794. Walter Ledet & 30417795.
Ermentrude ?.
By 1256, Alice’s
father died.
11/4/1256,
Grant to the queen of the wardship of the lands late of Walter Leydet, with the
marriage of the heirs. (S) CPRs.
5/29/1258,
Ratification, at the instance of S. de Monte Forti, earl of Leicester, for John
de Haya to sell … to Ermentruda (30417795) late the wife of Walter Leydet of
the marriage of 2 daughters and heirs of the said Walter … (S) CPRs.
[––William
& Alice––]
~1267, Walter
married Alice and acquired a moiety of the of the barony of Warden, and a
moiety of the whole hundred of Corby, both in Northampton. [Walter’s brother
John married Alice’s sister Christiana (her 2nd).]
Aft.
2/8/1268, William’s father died.
10/30/1269, William
le Latimer the younger who married the eldest daughter [Alice] of Walter Ledet and
Ermentrude late his wife, keeper of the lands of the said Walter, have agreed
that the 2 parts which the said Ermentrude holds shall be extended in
Northampton, so that the portion pertaining to Alice by right of esnecy may be
assigned to her. (S) CPRs.
2/20/1270,
Pardon to William le Latimer son and heir of William le Latimer, for 200 marks,
… and for the services of his father, of all accounts, arrears, and reckonings
in which the father was bound … for the whole time in which he was sheriff of
York, escheator beyond Trent, … (S) CPRs.
5/12/1270,
Protection with clause volumus, for 4 years from Easter, for the following
going on crusade to the Holy Land … William le Latymer … (S) CPRs.
8/19/1270
from Dover, lord Edward and wife Eleanor, and the crusaders, left on the 8th
crusade.
11/10/1270,
Lord Edward arrived in Tunis to find that King Louis had died, the crusader
forces had been decimated by disease. The French fleet returned the next day. Lord
Edward, retreated back to Sicily.
By 5/1271,
Lord Edward moved his forces to Acre; waiting for support to arrive [which
never came.]
11/16/1272,
King Edward ascended to the throne returning from the crusade.
1273-74, The
crusaders returned to England by various routes, arriving at various times.
8/19/1274 at
Westminster abbey, Edward I crowned king of England.
11/1274,
Alice a coheir of her great-grandmother Christina Ledet [died aft. 1256], who
held the market of Potton, Bedfordshire.
3/8/1275, William
le Latimer, who is going to Santiago [pilgrimage], gives power to John le Latimer
his brother … (S) CCRs.
1277,
William le Latymer held Wodeton of the king. (S) A Topo. Hist. of Surrey,
Brayley, 1841, P19.
7/25/1283, Order
to cause William le Latimer to have in the forest between the bridges of Oxford
and Stanford 4 live bucks and 8 live does, to stock therewith his park of
Sutton. (S) CCRs.
1283,
King Edward continued his Welsh campaign, capturing and executing Dafydd,
brother of Llewelyn; completing the conquest of Wales. [2/27/1285 indicates
William likely in this campaign.]
6/28/1284,
William le Latymer, escheator north of Trent, present at the proof of age of
Lucy, heiress of Peter de Brus of Skelton castle. (S) Yorkshire Archaeological
Society, V23, 1898, P170.
6/6/1285,
Order to cause Christiana, late the wife of John le Latymer, the second heiress
of Henry de Braybrok and Christiana Ledet, to have seisin of a moiety of the
lands that her father and mother held at their death in chief of the late king,
and of a moiety of all the lands that fall to her by her mother's death, as the
king has taken her homage and assigned to her a moiety of the lands of her
father and mother. It is provided that William le Latymer and Alice, his wife,
the eldest heiress of the said Henry and Christiana Ledet, shall do homage to
the king for the other moiety of the lands that Henry and Christiana held, and
shall thereupon have seisin thereof and of a moiety of all the lands of
Christiana Ledet that falls to Alice by right of inheritance : for which homage
the escheator is ordered to destrain William and Alice by their lands. (S)
CCRs.
2/27/1285,
Grant to William le Latymer, for service in the expedition into Wales, of the
custody of Lucy, daughter and heiress of Robert de Twnege, tenant in chief, of
the following lands late of the said Robert, … manor f Broughton with the
hamlet of Skynergryne, … manor of Jarum, … manors of Daneby and Lelum. (S)
CPRs.
4/26/1286,
Protection, … for the following going beyond seas with the king :- … William le
Latimer … until Easter. (S) CPRs.
6/24/1286 from Dover, King Edward and Eleanor traveled to
Gascony where they would stay for 3 years. [9 knights were assigned to guard
the royal children.]
1287,
William and wife Alice held the market of Potton, Bedfordshire. (S) Gaz. of
Markets and Fairs.
3/27/1291,
Grant … By K., on the information of William le Latimer. (S) CPRs.
4/11/1294,
William le Latymer, nominating … going beyond seas by the king’s command with
Eleanor the king’s daughter, countess of Bar. Eleanor, expecting her 1st child,
left England for Bar, an area bordering France and Germany. (S) CPRs. [Thomas
le Latymer, Thomas le Latymer of Wardon, and Warin de Insula, yoeman of the
said William, going with him.]
7/1/1297,
Grant to William le Latimer, staying in Gascony on the king’s service, of the
marriage of Isabella, daughter and heir of Simon de Sherstede, … (S) CPRs.
8/23/1297, Edward left England with 500 ships to attack
France and assert his rights. Because of the refusal of many barons, Edward
only had a small contingent of knights. The army sailed for Flanders to seek
additional support.
8/27/1298,
Letter of John de Saint John to Sir Ralph de Manto: …. Since we have been so
grieved by sickness that we could not by any means travel so as to be at
Roxburgh …, we pray you especially that, along with sir John de Segrave, our
cousin, and sir William de Latymer (to whom we have written), and with sir
Richard Siward …, you would have the goodness to be our representative ….
10/6/1298,
Writ de intendo … for Richard, bishop of Coventry, … and William le Latimer,
the father, … appointed to enquire touching offences and oppressions of the
king’s justices … (S) CPRs.
11/25/1298,
Appointment of William le Latimer, le pere, as captain-general in the counties
of Nottingham, Derby, York, and Northumberland. (S) CPRs.
4/7/1299,
Power to … and William le Latimer, the elder, … friends of the prisoners in
Scotland, as also of Scotch prisoners in England, … exchange of prisoners, body
for body, … (S) CPRs.
1299–1305,
William summoned to parliament.
3/28/1300,
“Royal letters patent: inspeximus and confirmation of Magna Carta … Witnesses:
… William le Latymer, …” (S) UKNA.
4/1/1300, …
ordered … to cause all and singular of … knights, esquires or others having £40
yearly of land … to provide themselves with horses and arms … be with the king
at Carlisle at Midsummer next, ready to set out with him at his wages against
the Scots … York, with William le Latimer, the elder. (S) CCRs.
7/9/1300, Siege
of Caerlaverock castle in Scotland began.
3/28/1301,
Power … to William le Latimer, the elder, … to conduct … to Cantebury. [Coming
for a treaty proposed between the English and Scots.] (S) CPRs.
11/8/1302,
Pardon … on testimony before the king by William le Latimer, the elder, of his
service in Scotland in the company of the said William, … (S) CPRs.
5/13/1303,
William le Latymer, the elder, who is staying with the king in Scotland, has
letters of respite of the aid in cos. Lincoln, York, Surrey, Kent, Northampton,
Bedford and Leicester. (S) Cal. of Various Chancery Rolls, 1913.
1304,
William, 1st Lord Latimer of Scampston, Yorkshire died. (S) CPRs.
12/20/1304,
Writ for IPM of William le Latimer the elder. (S) CFRs.
12/1304, IPM
of William de Latimer. Leicester: Est Langeton. 11 virgates of land, held, … There
are also in the town 3 cottars and a windmill … Kirke Langeton. [9 free
tenents] … Smetheton. [9 bondmen] … all held of the inheritance of Alice his
wife. William le Latimer, his son, aged 30 years and more, is his heir. (S)
CIsPM, V13, 1954, Addendum.
[––Alice––]
2/1/1305, An
inquisition shewing that William le Latimer the elder, deceased, held no lands
in chief except a moiety of the town of Corby with the hundred of Corby and a
portion in Carleton, co. Northampton, which he held of the inheritance of Alice
late his wife by the service of rendering 100s. yearly. (S) CFRs.
11/1306-7/1307,
Quitclaim in frankalmoign by Alice daughter and heir of Walter Ledet to the
said church and canons of the land granted to her by Adam Walys in Sutton. (S)
UKNA.
7/7/1307,
Edward II succeeded Edward I as King of England.
2/17/1308,
Mandate to render homage and fealty to Henry de Bello Monte, … to Alice, late
the wife of William le Latymer, … (S) CPRs.
2/25/1308,
Edward II crowned king of England.
11/27/1308,
Commission … that Alice, late the wife of William le Latimer, Joan Comyn [her
daughter], … with many others besieged him in his dwelling at Eton Beauchamp …
(S) CPRs.
3/4/1309,
Commission … on complaint by Alice, late the wife of William le Latimer, that
Roger de Bello Campo of Eton, … committed a trespass on her free warren at Eton
and Catbury, co. Bedford … (S) CPRs.
1311, Alice,
wife that was of William le Latymer, was summoned to answer Thomas le Latymer
[her sister’s heir] of a plea that she permit him to present a fit parson to
the church of Sutton … (S) The Publications of the Selden Society, V22, P172.
10/15/1313,
Order … the manor of Corby … that belonged to Wychard Ledet, … to deliver the
manor to Mary, late the wife of the said Wychard, upon her finding security for
£10 for the relief of Walter his son and heir, because … taken into the king's
hands on account of Wychard's death, … restored the custody of the manor to
Ermeutrude, late the wife of the said Walter, then deceased, … to hold during
the minority of Walter’s heir, … the queen of England to cause Ermentrude to
have full seisin thereof; it being now shewn to the king by Alice, daughter and
heiress of the said Walter, whom William le Latymer, lately deceased, married,
that the treasurer and barons unduly charge her with £340 16s. 8d. of the
arrears. (S) CCRs.
5/29/1315,
As Alice, late the wife of William Latymer, had her service with the late king
in the said army for the service of a quarter of a fee, which she acknowledged
to the said king in that army, as appears by inspection of the rolls of his
marshalsea, the collectors are ordered to supersede the demand upon Alice for
scutage, etc. (S) Cal. of Various Chancery Rolls, 1913.
1317, Alice
died.
3/8/1317,
IPM of Alice, late the wife of William le Latymer, alias Alice la Latymere. Northampton:
Corby. A moiety of the town with the hundred … William le Latymer, her son,
aged 40 and more, is her next heir. Bedford: Sutton. The manor with the hamlets
of Potton, Holm and Stratton … (S) CIsPM.
(S) A
Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain, Burke,
1835, P681.
Child
of William and Alice:
i. William le Latimer (11820294), born 1269 in
England. [Heir]
6/26/1317, Order to deliver to William le Latymer, son and heir of
Alice late the wife of William le Latymer, tenant in chief, the lands late of
his said mother, he having done fealty. (S) CFRs.
ii. Joan le Latimer (11820371), born ~1272 in
England.
iii. John le Latimer (7604448), born ~1276 in
England.
