General Notes

William le Latimer, 2nd/3rd Lord (Baron) Latimer (of Corby), born c1301; knighted by 1328; married Elizabeth, daughter of 1st Lord (Baron) Botetourt, and died by 2 Nov 1335.  [Burke's Peerage]

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BARONY OF LATIMER [OF CORBY] (III)

WILLIAM (LE LATIMER), LORD LATIMER, son and heir, was aged 25 or 26 at his father's death. He had livery of Danby and other manors 13 April 1327, and the King had taken his homage. He was summoned to Parliament from 7 August 1327 to 1 April 1335, by writs directed Willelmo le Latymer. On 3 November 1328 he obtained a charter of free warren in his demesne lands in Bozeat, Northants, and Scredington, co. Lincoln, and a similar one on 29 January 1328/9 for Terrington, Yorks, and other demesnes in Beds, Norfolk, and Kent. In 1328 he was described as a knight. On 26 February 1330/1 an account was to be taken between him and the Exchequer concerning moneys due by and to him, his father and grandfather. In 1332 he was one of those deputed to choose archers for the King's expedition into Ireland. Next year he attended a tournament at Dunstable, and was appointed a custodian of the Yorkshire coasts against an expected attack by the Scots, and in 1335 was ordered to attend the King at Newcastle with horses and arms.

He married Elizabeth, elder daughter of John, 1st LORD BOTETOURT, by Maud, sister and heir of Otes FITZTHOMAS, which Maud was one of the heirs of Beatrice de Beaucliamp, heiress of a third part of the barony of Bedford. On 12 November 1328 Maud, widow of John de Botetourt, had licence to grant to William le Latimer and Elizabeth his wife in fee tail her manors of Dilwick, Wootton, Cardington, Ronhale (Ravensden) and Bromham, Beds, with 20 knights' fees in these and other places in the county, with remainder to Elizabeth's heirs. On 23 May 1329 William le Latimer had a pardon for acquiring, without licence, from the same Maud, the office of graver and worker of the dies in the Tower of London and city of Canterbury, and he had licence to retain it. On 17 December 1330 he and Eilzabeth had a grant of the manor of Iselhampstead, Bucks (now called Latimer), forfeited by the rebellion of Simon de Bereford. He died in 1335, before 2 November. He was still unburied on 10 December because his widow had nothing wherewith to bury him, so the Exchequer was ordered to deliver 500 marks of his goods in the King's hand to her and the other executors. A grant of her marriage had been made a fortnight after William's death to William FitzWarin le frËre, but she did not marry hirn. She had assignment of her dower 10 February 1335/6. She married, 2ndly, before 20 August 1337, when they were pardoned for marrying without licence, Robert, Lord Ufford, 1st son and heir apparent of Robert (DE UFFORD), EARL OF SUFFOLK. Queen Philippe had custody of the two-thirds of the lands of William le Latimer in the King's hand through the minority of the heir, and these she demised to Robert de Ufford le fitz and Elizabeth his wife for a rent of £300. Robert died v.p. and s.p., before 1369. She, as Elizabeth de Latimer, was called upon to provide 6 men-at-arms and 12 archers for the King's service in October 1346, and in 1370 she had custody of the lands of John Breton, who was an idiot. She died 11 April 1384. Her will as Lady Elizabeth Latimer, lady of Iselhampstead, dated at Newnham by Bedford 21 March 1383/4, was proved 26 April 1384. She desired to be buried in the priory church of Newnham.  [Complete Peerage VII:469-70, XIV:425, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]