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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ WILLIAM LE LATIMER, KG., 4th Lord Latimer, of Danby, Easthorpe (in Appleton le Street), Helpringham, Knapton (in Winteringham), Scampston, and Sherburn (in Harford Lythe), Yorkshire, Bromham, Dilwick, Renholdf, Sutton, and Wootton, Bedfordshire, Isenhampstead (in Chesham), Buckinghamshire, Corby and Willeby, Northamptonshire, Great Carbrooke, Norfolk, Chamberlain of the Household, Governor of Becherel in Brittany, Lieutenant and Captain-General of Gascony, Warden of the Forests north of Trent, Chamberlain of the King's Household, Lieutenant, Captain and Governor of the castle, town and viscounty of St. Sauveur le Vicomte in Normandy, Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports, son and heir, born at Scampston, Yorkshire 24 March 1329/30 (aged 16 in 1347), and baptized at St. Andrew's, Rillington, Yorkshire. He was in the 1st division in the Battle of Crecy in 1346. He married before 10 August 1353 (date of priepapal indult) ELIZABETH DE ARUNDEL, daughter of Edmund de Arundel, Knt., 9th Earl of Arundel, by Alice, daughter of William de Warenne, Knt. [see FITZ ALAN 10 for her ancestry]. They had one daughter, Elizabeth. He was repeatedly in France from Crecy in 1346 until 1381 and was the king's principal representative in Brittany from 1359-67, acting as king's lieutenant from 1361. In 1351 he had livery of his father's lands and in 1352 had seisin of the office of engraving and making the King's dies in the Tower of London and the city of Canterbury. In 1356 he witnessed Balliol's surrender of his claim to the kingdom of Scotland. In 1359 he was in the expedition to Gascony. In 1365 he had license to found a college of 13 chaplains in the church of Helpringham, Yorkshire. In 1366 he founded a chappellerie in Prières Abbey in Brittany in memory of his brother, Robert le Latimer, Knt. The same year Richard, Earl of Arundel, acting as attorney for his brother-in-law, William Latimer, Knt., presented to the church of Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 Feb. 1367/8 to 2 October 1379, by writs directed Willelmo Latymer or de Latymer. He presented to the churches of Wotton, Surrey, 1373, and Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire, 1373 and 1377. In 1375 he was granted various tenements and houses in Calais formerly held by John Dayre, with remainder in male tail to Thomas Camoys. He was high in favor with John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and shared his unpopularity with the people, being involved in his temporary loss of power in 1376, and impeached by the Good Parliament. He surrendered, was released on bail, and was soon fully restored. He was nominated one of the executors of King Edward III in 1376. In 1377 he was one of the commanders of the fleet which attempted to surprise the Spanish at Sluys, but was dispersed by a storm. The same year he served as almoner at the Coronation of King Richard II. In 1380 he accompanied Thomas of Woodstock in his abortive expedition to Brittany. SIR WILLIAM LE LATIMER, 4th Lord Latimer, died 28 May 1381, and was buried at Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire. He left a will dated 10 July 1380. His widow, Elizabeth, died 11 March 1384. She left a will dated 21 March 1383, proved 26 April 1384, requesting burial in the church of Newenham Priory, Bedfordshire.
Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 224. Whitaker Hist. of Richmondshire 2 (1823): facing 78 (Latimer ped.). Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1(1826): 108 (will of William, Lord Latimer names his "cousin" Thomas Camoys). Coll. Top. et Gen. 4 (1837): 261-262 (Obits from calendar held by Gisburne Priory: "O[bitus] Will’mi Latymer .5. calend. Junii. [28 May] Anno dni. 1380."); 6 (1840): 42 (agreement between William Latimer, lord of Danby, and John de Holme, lord of Great Edstone dated 1353), 43. Beltz Mems. of the Order of the Garter (1841): cli, 146-148 (wife stated in a pedigree by Vincent, No. 5: 33, to have been a "daughter of Edmund Fitzalan, earl of Arundel") (arms of William le Latimer: Gules, a cross flory or). Harvey Hist. & Antiqs. of the Hundred of Willey (1872-8): opp. 4 (Beauchamp ped.). Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 315-316 (sub Latimer) (wife Elizabeth called "dau. of Richard, Earl of Arundel"). Kirby Wykeham's Reg. 1(1896): 49. Papal Regs.: Letters 3 (1897): 511, 514. Genealogist n.s. 22 (1906): 88. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 155-156 (Latimer arms: Gules a cross paty or). VCH Bedford 2 (1908): 246-251; 3 (1912): 9-15. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 121-122 (sub Latimer). C.P.R. 1374-1377 (1916): 117. C. Ch. R 5 (1916): 256. C.C.R. 1381-1385 (1920): 61. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 203-218. C.P. 7 (1929): chart fall. 452, 468 footnote d, 470-475 (sub Latimer), esp. 474 footnote f (A monk at St. Albans in his Chron.: 84, says of him: "... pride, cruelty, neglect of God characterised him, and, though noble in birth, he depraved his whole mind, and was crafty and deceitful. He was no warrior, but shirked toil and want."). VCH Northampton 4 (1937): 3-4. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 316: 8 (do), 404: 10. Yorkshire Arch. Jour. 40 (1962): 265-297. Jones Ducal Brittany 1364-1399 (1970). Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.5142. Holmes Good Parl. (1975). Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 1 (1978): 37 (seal of William Latimer, Knt. dated 1374 - In a tall cusped panel with dogtooth border and arched top, between two lunettes of tracery, a shield of arms: a cross patonce (LATIMER); helm above in profile with crest: a bush of feathers, and mantling paly. Legend: S.WILLELMI LATIMER:DNI:DE: DANBI.). Jones Recueil des Actes de 162 Jean IV, Duc de Bretagne 1 (1980): 76, 126-127, 129, 141-144, 148. Given-Wilson Royal Household & the King's Affinity: Service, Politics &Finance in England 1360-1413 (1986). Hicks Who's Who in Late Medieval England (1991): 140-143 (biog. of William Lord Latimer: "... 'the man most intimately involved in the organization of the renewed war effort from England'... inevitably the government's failures and unpopular policies were... attributed to him and were charged to his account at the Good Parliament of 1376. Latimer pleaded that decisions of policy had been made by the whole council and indeed most charges could not be substantiated"). Winchester John Denton's Hist. of Cumberland (Surtees Soc. 213) (2010): 146-148. National Archives, C 131/184/32; C 131/185/21; C 131/185/36; C 131/185/42; C 241/164/76; C 241/164/104; C 241/164/151; SC 8/331/15672 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Child of William le Latimer, KG., by Elizabeth de Arundel:
i. ELIZABETH LE LATIMER, married (1st) JOHN DE NEVITLLE KG., 3rd Lord Neville of Raby [see NEVILLE 12]; (2nd) ROBERT WILLOUGHBY, Knt., 4th Lord Willoughby of Eresby [see WILLOUGHBY 10].â€
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