General Notes

William le Latimer, 1st /2nd Lord (Baron) Latimer (of Corby), so created by writ of summons to Parliament 6 Feb 1298/9 (ie. nearly a year prior to the first recorded writ of sommons to his father, though the latter may have been summoned even earlier); fought at English defeat by Scots of Bannockburn 1314, when captured and held at Bothwell till ransomed some eight months after the battle; fought for Edward II at Battle of Boroughbridge 16 March 1321/2 against the rebellious Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, though one of the latter's supporters till c1318; Keeper of York Jan 1322/3; envoy to negotiate peace with Scotland 1324; married 1st by 20 April 1295 (divorce by 22 July 1312) Lucy, younger daughter and coheir of Sir Robert de Thweng, and had issue; married 2nd by 18 Aug 1314 Sibyl, daughter of Sir Richard de Fourneaux and widow of William de Huntingfield, and died by 12 July 1317, leaving by her a son (Thomas); his son by his 1st wife [William le Latimer, 3rd Baron].  [Burke's Peerage]

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BARONY OF LATIMER [OF CORBY] (II)

WILLIAM (LE LATIMER), LORD LATIMER, son and heir. He was stated to be aged 40 and more in March 1316/7. On 7 August 1294 he was attorney for his father,, who was setting out for Gascony, and next year (17 October) he himself had a protection on going there with the King's brother. He was summoned for military service for Gascony 1295, 1324, 1325, and against the Scots 1297 and (as a "baron") 1299 and onward to 1323; and it appears that he held lands of the value of £20 per annum in Northants and £40 in Yorks. He was serving with the King in Wales in April 1295. He was summoned to Parliament 6 February 1298/9 ten months before his father, by writ directed Willelmo le Latimer juniori, whereby he also is held to have become LORD LATIMER, and to later Parliaments down to 3 December 1326. In November 1299 he had a protection on going to Scotland with the King, and in 1303 was in Scotland serving under John de Segrave. On 12 December 1303, by charter granted at Dunfermline, he obtained a weekly market and annual fair for his manor of Sinnington, co. York, and free warren in the demesne. In 1305 he had a grant of pontage in aid of a bridge for his town of Yarm, co. York. In May 1306 the King gave him in fee two parts of the manor of Lamdnby, Cumberland, with its hamlets of Gamblesby and Unthank, valued at £30 per annum. In 1307 he was ordered to proceed to Scotland for the defence of the country and of his own possessions. He was summoned 18 January 1307/8 to the Coronation of Edward II, and in the following March received the custody of Rockingham Castle and the stewardship of the forests between the bridges of Oxford and Stamford. In 1309 he was at a tournament at Dunstable, and in July was going beyond seas on the King's service. The King in December 1309 wrote on his behalf to the Pope and Cardinals. In 1311 he had a grant of the custody of the lands of Nicholas Poyntz during minority. The custody of Scarborough Castle was committed to him in January 1311/2, but Henry de Percy refused to give it up. In 1313 he was forbidden to attend a tournament at Newmarket. On 7 February 1313/4 he is styled notre cher bacheler monsire William le Latymer in connection with debts of himself and his father. He shared in the English defeat at Bannockburn, 24 June 1314, was taken prisoner, and confined at Bothwell until ransomed, being released before February 1314/5. On 14 April 1315 he was summoned to a council of war at Doncaster. In the following August he was ordered to remain in the North during the winter campaign. On 26 June 1317 he had livery of his mother's inheritance. He was at this time an adherent of the Earl of Lancaster, but received pardon on 22 October 1318, and afterwards joined the King's party. In 1321 he was requested to abstain from illegal confederacies and assemblies, and in particular from attending the meeting of "Good Peers" at Doncaster. On 6 February 1321/2 he was ordered to raise men to join the King at Coventry and march against Thomas of Lancaster, and to gather the forces of Yorkshire. He fought at Boroughbridge for the King, 16 March 132I/2. On 4 August following he was going with the Earl of Arundel to Scotland on the King's service, and soon afterwards was a commissioner of array in co. York. On 19 January 1322/3 he was appointed keeper of the city of York. In the following June he and William Herle were commissioned to receive the oaths of Robert de Bruce.and other magnates of Scotland to observe a truce for 13 years and to receive hostages; Latimer was to conduct Bruce's envoys in safety on their return to Scotland. On 8 Nov. 1324 he was one of those empowered to make peace with Robert Bruce. On 18 February 1326/7 he had licence to grant his manor of Corby to William his son in tail.

He married, 1stly, before 20 April 1295, Lucy, heir of Sir Robert DE THWENG elder brother of Marmaduke, 1st Lord Thweng (and granddaughter of Sir Marmaduke DE THWENG, of Kilton in Cleveland, by Lucy, sister and coheir of Sir Piers DE BRUS, of Skelton and Danby in Cleveland). On 16 February 1303/4 the Sheriff of York was ordered to find Lucy, wife of William le Latimer the younger, arrest her by force if necessary, and take her back to William's manor of Brunne, co. York, delivering her to William's attorney, as William had left her there to remain during his absence on service in Scotland and she was taken away against his will by force. On 10 February 1310/1 William and Lucy quitclaimed to the King the manor of Danby with the free chase of Danby (North Riding, Yorks), and the manor of Bozeat (Northants), being of Lucy's inheritance, and they were regranted to William le Latimer for life, with remainder to William son of William and Lucy and his issue, and with further remainder to Lucy and her heirs. A divorce between them had been pronounced before 22 July 1312, when as daughter and heir of Richard [sic] de Thweng she was to be distrained for lands which she and her husband William le Latimer held before their divorce the King having taken her fealty and respited homage till midsummer. A grant by her to her late husband, dated 21 July 1312, gave him the manor of Sinnington for his life. She married, 2ndly, before 29 January 1312/3, Sir Robert DE EVERINGHAM, who died s.p., before 4 April 1316; and, 3rdly, Sir Bartholomew DE FANACOURT. She, who was born 24 March 1278/9, at Kilton Castle, died 8 January 1346/7, and was buried at Guisborough. William le Latimer married, 2ndly, before 18 August 1314, Sibyl, widow of William DE HUNTINGFIELD, of Huntingfield (died September 1313), and daughter of Sir Richard DE FOURNEAUX, and sister and in her issue coheir of William DE FOURNEAUX, of Carlton in Lindrick, Kingston, Notts, &c. On 28 September 1314 her dower from William de Huntingfield was taken into the King's hand because she had married again without licence. In 1315 William le Latimer and Sibyl sought from Roger de Pedewardyn, keeper of the lands and heir of William de Huntingfield, dower in the manors of Fraunton and Suthorpe, and there was an order restoring her dower on 3 February 1314/5. She died before 23 July 1317. William, Lord Latimer, died 27 February 1326/7, and was buried at Guisborough.  [Complete Peerage VII:465-8, XIV:425, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]