General Notes

BARONY OF LATIMER [OF CORBY] (VI)

JOHN (NEVILL), LORD LATIMER, son and heir. by 1st husband. He was born in 1382, being aged 13 at his mother's death, and attaining his majority by December 1403. On 4 July 1398 a grant of 100 marks per annum was made to the Bishop of London and Edmund Hampdene for his maintenance during niinority. His marriage had already (15 May) been granted to the Bishop, who in 1399 assigned it to Elizabeth, Lady Clifford, and others. On 28 July 1400 Henry IV granted to John, lord of Latymer, still under age, custody of the manors of Scampston and Terrington. He was summoned to Parliament from 25 August 1404 to 27 November 1430, by writs directed Johanni de Latymer or Johanni Latymer chivaler. He was one of the lords who on 22 December 1406 sealed the second Act of Succession and swore to support the same; and about that time his name occurs on a list of those summoned to attend a Great Council. He married, before 24 July 1406, Maud, daughter of Thomas (DE CLIFFORD), 6th LORD CLIFFORD, by Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas( DE ROS), LORD ROS. From her he was divorced and, having no issue, he settled the greater part of his estate (although derived through his mother) on his brother of the half blood, Ralph (Nevill), 1st Earl of Westmorland, to the exclusion of his heir, his sister of the whole blood, Elizabeth. He died s.p., 10 December 1430, desiring (in his will) to be buried in St. Mary's Abbey, York, "where I have put my stone." His divorced wife Maud married, as 2nd wife, Richard, EARL of CAMBRIDGE, who was executed 5 August 1415. She died s.p., 26 August 1446, and was buried in Roche Abbey, co. York. [Complete Peerage VII:476-7, transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]