William le Latimer III

• Preferred Name: William le Latimer III^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• Occupation: Keeper of Berwick Castle1300
  
• FSID: G64M-LMT
  
• Birth: 1243 in Danby Manor, Malton, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N4.139 LONG: E0.792
  
• MilitaryService: Accompanied Prince Edward (later King Edward I) on Crusade to The Promised Land1270
  
• Burial: AFT 5 DEC 1304 in St. Andrew's Church, Helpringham, Lincolnshire, England at LATI: N2.9409 LONG: E0.2928
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: 1st Baron Latimer of Corby
  
• MilitaryService: Served in the King's wars against the Welsh and the Scots
  
• Death: 5 DEC 1304 in Corby, Northamptonshire, England at LATI: N2.4935 LONG: E0.6844
  
• Occupation: Member of Parliament1290
  
• MilitaryService: Took part in the seige of CarlaverockJUN 1300
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
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  *Fought at the Battle of Sterling, Battle of Falkirk and the Siege of Caerlaverock*
  Biography
  Brother of Sir John de Latimer, Lord of Danby Half brother of Sir Alan Lord FitzAlan, of Bedale and William Latimer, Sir William le Latimer accompanied Prince Edward (later King Edward I) to the Holy Land in 1270. He went on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in 1275. He often went abroad in the service of the king and served in the king's wars against the Welsh and Scots. He was the keeper of Berwick Castle in 1300 and took part in the siege of Carlaverock in June of that year.
  
  Valour and Sir William Latimer Fast and firm friends were they; His banner red bore a simple charge--- A cross of gold patée.
  
  William de Latimer is considered to have become Baron Latimer of Corby by virtue of his attendance at parliament in 1290 and his summonses by writ to the parliaments of 1300 and 1302. He held manors throughout the kingdom and was buried at St Andrew's Church, Helpringham, Lincolnshire, England.
  
  === Sir Bernard Burke's Dormant & Extinct P ===
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  === William le Latimer, 1st Lord (Baron) Lat ===
  William le Latimer, 1st Lord (Baron) Latimer (of Corby), apparently created by writ of summons 1290 to an assembly deemed by later (though not the very latest) doctine to have been a Parliament, though the first recorede writ dates from 29 Dec 1299; saw action at English defeat by Scots at Stirling 1297 and English victory over the Scots at Falkirk 1298; Keeper of Berwick 1300, paricipating in the Siege of Caerlaverock June 1300; married c1268 Alice, elder daughter and coheir of Walter Ledet, whereby he acquired Corby, Northants, with other extensive possessions, and died 5 Dec 1304. [Burke's Peerage]
  
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  William Latimer, first Baron Latimer (d. 1304), was a member of a family which had been settled at Billinges in Yorkshire since the time of Richard I. On chronological grounds it is improbable that he is, by Dugdale, the William Latimer who was sheriff of Yorkshire from 1253 to 1259, and again in 1266-7. The holder of these offices was more porbably his father. The elder Latimer was sent to assist Alexander III of Scotland in 1266, was escheator-general north of the Trent in 1257, and in December 1263 was one of those who undertook that the king woul abide by the award of Louis IX. He supported the king in the baron's war, and is referred to in the 'Song of the Barons.' He was at various times in charge of the castles of Pickering, Cockermount, York and Scarborough. He was alive in May 1270.
  
  William Latimer the younger may be the baron of that name who took the cross in 1271. No doubt it is he who was summoned to serve in Wales in December 1276, and again in May 1282. At the defeat of the English at Menai Straits, 6 Nov 1282, he escaped by riding through the midst of the waves. He was present in parliament on 29 May 1290, when a grant was made 'pur fille marier,' but his first recorded writ of summons is dated 29 Dec 1299. In April 1292 he was summoned to attend a Norham equipped for the field. he saild in the expedition for Gascony which left Plymouth on 3 Oct, reaching Chatillon on 23 Oct. At the beginning of 1292 Latimer was in command at Rions. He seems to have remained in Gascony till 1297, in which year he was employed in Scotland, and was present at the battle of Stirling on 10 Sept, when the English were defeated by Wallace. In 1298 he accompanied Edward to Scotland, and was present at the battle of Falkirk on 22 July. On August, he was in command at Berwick. Next year, in April, he was appointed a commissioner to treat for the exchange of prisoners, and was one of those summoned to attend the council at York in July for the consideration of the affairs of Scotland. In July he was engaged in a raid into Galloway, and in August was again at Berwick, being at this time the king's lieutenant in the marches. In June 1300 he was at the siege of Caerlaverock. In October 1300 he was again keeper of Berwick and in September 1302 was in command at Roxburgh. In February 1301 he was present in the parliament at Lincoln, and was one of the barons who joined in the letter to Pope Boniface. Latimer died 5 Dec 1304, and was buried at Hempingham or Empingham, Rutland. Hemingburgh says he had seen service in many lands. The author of the 'Song of Caerlaverock' says one could not find a more valiant or prudent man. He married Alice, also called Amicia or Agnes, older daughter and coheiress of Walter Ledet, baron Braybrooke, who represented the Ledets, lords of Warden, and died in 1257, when his daughters were aged twelve and eleven years respectively. The younger daughter, Christiana, married Latimer's brother John, and from this marriage the barons Latimer of Braybrooke and the present Lord Braybrooke descend. By his wife, who died in 1316, William Latimer had two sons: John, who died without issue in 1299, having married in 1297 Isabel, daughter and heiress of Simon de Sherstede, and William. He had also a daughter Johanna, who married Alexander Comyn of Buchan. [Dictionary of National Biography XII:620-21]
  
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  WILLIAM LE LATIMER, son and heir. He is called "the elder" or "the father" to distinguish him from his son William. On 20 February 1269/70 he was pardoned, for 200 marks, all arrears due from his father in respect of his accounts as Sheriff of York, escheator beyond Trent, and custodian of the Morewick and other estates. In the following May he had letters of protection for four years on going with Prince Edward to the Holy Land. In May 1275 he was going on pilgrimage to Santiago, and in the following November had letters of protection on going beyond seas with Edmund, the King's brother. He was frequently summoned for military service against the Welsh in 1277 and1282, against the Scots in 1291 and (as a "baron") 1299 to 1303, to serve in Flanders 1297-98, but was exempted from service in Gascony in 1294. From these summonses it appears that he held lands of the value of £20 per annum in Northants, Sussex, and Surrey, and of £40 in Yorkshire and co. Lincoln. In reward for his services in Wales he had in 1285 a grant of the custody of the lands late of Robert de Thwenge, during the minority of the heir. In 1289 he was in France, attesting royal charters in April and June. On 29 May 1290 he is named among the magnates and proceres assembled in full Parliament who granted an aid for the marriage of the King's daughter, and in September joined as a "baron" in a letter of protest to the Pope concerning the appropriation of some English benefices to a foundation in Rome. From his presence in Parliament it is to be inferred (on the analogy of the Hastings case) that he received a writ of summons in or before 1290, and consequently became, according to modern doctrine, LORD LATIMER. His first recorded writ of summons to Parliament, however, directed Willelmo de Latymer seniori, is dated 29 December 1299, ten months after his son was summoned. The summonses were continued to 12 November 1304. In 1291 he witnessed a charter at Newcastle-on-Tyne. On 11 April 1294 he was going beyond seas with Eleanor, the King's daughter, Countess of Bar. Although exempted from service in Gascony, as has been mentioned, he took part in the expedition of 1294, and in consideration of his doing so the King on 4 August 1294 lent him houses in Skipton-in-Craven Castle for the use of his wife and household, with brushwood and fuel. On 7 August he was setting out in the train of Edmund, the King's brother, and appointed attorneys, including William le Latimer the younger; and on 8 October was captain of all the sailors for Gascony. He remained in Gascony till 1297, but in the latter part of the year was with the Earl Warenne and the English army sent against Wallace, by whom they were defeated io September at Stirling. He was commissioned to enquire into the conduct of the justices of the forest in 1298, and was later in the year appointed the King's Captain-General in cos. Notts, Derby, York and Northumberland. From this time he appears to have been engaged chiefly in military service in Scotland, and in September 1302 was ordered to remain in Scotland notwithstanding his summons to attend Parliament. In May 1298 he went North with 100 men-at-arms, fought in the English victory at Falkirk 27 July, and in August was stationed at Berwick. In July 1299, at Carlisle, describing himself as "captain and lieutenant of the King in the Marches of Scotland," he ordered payment of the expenses of a foray into Scotland. In 1300 he was Keeper of Berwick, with 30 men-at-arms and 200 foot, and in June took part in the siege of Carlaverock, where the St. Johns and Latimers were leaders from the first. In 1301, as dominus de Corby, he joined in the Barons' Letter to the Pope. On 18 July 1302 he had a grant of a weekly market and a yearly fair at his manor of Ash, in Kent, and a yearly fair at his manor of Wotton, Surrey, and a weekly market and yearly fair at his manor of Terrington, co. York, and free warren in his demesne lands in that manor. In the autumn of 1302 he was at Roxburgh, where in January following his life was in danger. He married, about 1268 Alice, elder daughter and coheir of Walter LEDET, by Ermentrude [? DE LISLE]. With her he had a great inheritance in Northants, including Corby, as also in Beds. He died 5 December 1304, and was buried at Helpringham, co. Lincoln. His executors had respite of debts 20 May 1305. His widow sent the service of a fourth part of a knight's fee in 1306. In 1316 she held part of Sutton, Beds, and all the hundred and town of Corby Northants. She appears in various pleas from 1306 onwards. She died before 8 March 1316/7, when enquiry was made as to a claim by her son Nicholas le Latimer that her manor of Sutton, Beds, and lands in Potton, &c., should descend to him. [Complete Peerage VII:461-4]

1. Christiana Latimer, b. 1268 in Corby, Northamptonshire, England     d. 1320 in Fersfield, Norfolk, England
2. Joan Latimer, b. 1262 in Morayshire, Scotland     d. 1 OCT 1340 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

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