Alice de Ledet , Heiress of Corby 
Alice de was born about 1250 in Corby, Northamptonshire, England. Alice de's father was Walter de Ledet , of Corby and her mother was Ermentrude de Lisle. Her paternal grandfather was Wischard (Guiscard) Ledet , of Corby. She had a sister named Christian. She was the older of the two children. She died in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England.General Notes
Alice, elder daughter and coheir of Walter Ledet, whereby he acquired Corby, Northants, with other extensive possessions. [Burke's Peerage]
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He [William le Latimer] married, about 1268 Alice, elder daughter and coheir of Walter LEDET (e), 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, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(e) This Walter (d. 1256) was son and heir of Wischard Ledet, who was son and heir of Christian (d. 1271), daughter and heir of Wischard Ledet and Margery Foliot. . . In 1274 William le Latimer and Alice his wife, and John le Latimer (brother of William) and Christian his wife, claimed various manners as heirs of Christian Ledet, and the claim was allowed, particularly as to the advowson of the church of Wardon, Northants. William le Latimer was described as "of Corby" in 1280. On 6 June 1285 it was provided that William le Latimer and Alice his wife, elder coheir of Henry de Braybrook and Christian Ledet (his wife), should do homage for their moiety of the inheritance; John le Latimer (d. 1282) and Christian his wife, the younger coheir, had done homage.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1146 in Braybrooke, Market Harborough, Northamptonshire, England d.~ 1167
- b.1168 in Braybrooke, Market Harborough, Northamptonshire, England d.1210
- b.~ 1150 in Braybrooke, Market Harborough, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1190 in Braybrooke, Market Harborough, Northamptonshire, England d.1234
- b.~ 1210 in Corby, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1170 in Corby, Northamptonshire, England d.1221
- b.~ 1195 in Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire, England d.1271
- b.~ 1156 in Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire, England d.1203
- b.~ 1175 in Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire, England d.1222
- b.~ 1230 in Braybrooke, Market Harborough, Northamptonshire, England d.1256 in Corby, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1250 in Corby, Northamptonshire, England d.BEF 8 MAR 1316/17 in Sutton, Bedfordshire, England
- b.~ 1232 in England d.>08 Nov 1268
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Alice de and William III 1st Baron le were married in a religious ceremony about 1268. They had a son and two daughters, named William IV 2nd Baron le, Joan le and Christian le.
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Children
William IV 2nd Baron le Latimer , of Corby
William IV 2nd Baron le was born about 1276 in Danby Manor, Scampston, Malton, East Ride Yorkshire, England. He died before July 23rd, 1317 in Corby, Northamptonshire, England. He was buried in Guisborough Priory, North Ride Yorkshire, England.
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