Biography of William Latimer 1st Baron Latimer of Corby 1243-1304

Around 1243 William Latimer 1st Baron Latimer of Corby was born to William Latimer of Corby (age 23) at Danby Manor Melton.

On 22 Nov 1268 [his father] William Latimer of Corby (age 48) died.

Before 1269 William Latimer 1st Baron Latimer of Corby (age 26) and Alicia Ledet Baroness Latimer Corby (age 17) were married. His brother John Latimer had married, or was to marry her younger sister Christian Ledet (age 16). The sisters were the heiresses of their father Walter Ledet and the brothers inherited one of the castles of Braybrook and Corby.

In 1269 [his daughter] Joanna Latimer was born to William Latimer 1st Baron Latimer of Corby (age 26) and [his wife] Alicia Ledet Baroness Latimer Corby (age 18) at Altyre, Moray.

Before 1270 [his uncle] John Latimer and [his sister-in-law] Christian Ledet (age 17) were married. His brother William Latimer 1st Baron Latimer of Corby (age 26) had married, or was to marry her elder sister [his wife] Alicia Ledet Baroness Latimer Corby (age 18). The sisters were the heiresses of their father Walter Ledet and the brothers inherited one of Braybrook and Corby.

In 1275 [his son] John Latimer was born to William Latimer 1st Baron Latimer of Corby (age 32) and [his wife] Alicia Ledet Baroness Latimer Corby (age 24) at Duntish, Dorset.

Around 1276 [his son] William Latimer 2nd Baron Latimer of Corby was born to William Latimer 1st Baron Latimer of Corby (age 33) and [his wife] Alicia Ledet Baroness Latimer Corby (age 25).

Around 1290 William Latimer 1st Baron Latimer of Corby (age 47) was created 1st Baron Latimer of Corby. [his wife] Alicia Ledet Baroness Latimer Corby (age 39) by marriage Baroness Latimer of Corby.

Around 10 Nov 1292 [his sister-in-law] Christian Ledet (age 40) died.

Before 09 Mar 1301 seven Earls and 96 Barons signed a letter to the Pope refuting the Pope's claim that Scotland was subject to the Pope's feudal overlordship. The letter was never sent. Those who signed include: John Warenne 6th Earl Surrey (age 70), Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 23), Ralph Monthermer 1st Baron Monthermer (age 31), Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex (age 25), Roger Bigod 5th Earl Norfolk (age 56), Richard Fitzalan 8th Earl Arundel (age 34), Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 29), Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke (age 26), William Leybourne 1st Baron Leybourne (age 59), Henry Plantagenet 3rd Earl of Leicester 3rd Earl Lancaster (age 20), William Latimer 1st Baron Latimer of Corby (age 58), Edmund Hastings, John Hastings 2nd Baron Hastings 14th Baron Bergavenny (age 14), Edmund Mortimer 2nd Baron Mortimer of Wigmore (age 50), Fulk Fitzwarin 2nd Baron Fitzwarin (age 16), Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy (age 27), Robert Fitzwalter 1st Baron Fitzwalter (age 54), John Beauchamp 1st Baron Beauchamp Somerset (age 26), William de Braose 2nd Baron de Braose (age 41), John Botetort 1st Baron Botetort (age 36), Reginald Grey 1st Baron Grey of Wilton (age 61), John Moels 1st Baron Moels (age 32), Thomas Berkeley 6th and 1st Baron Berkeley (age 55), Robert de Vere 5th Earl of Oxford, John Strange 1st Baron Strange Knockin (age 48), Thomas Multon 1st Baron Multon (age 25), Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford (age 26), Walter Beauchamp (age 58), Alan Zouche 1st Baron Zouche Ashby (age 33), John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave (age 45), William Ferrers 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby (age 29), Simon Montagu 1st Baron Montagu (age 51), Piers Mauley, Ralph Neville 1st Baron Neville of Raby (age 38), John Mohun 1st Baron Dunster (age 32), Roger Scales 1st Baron Scales, Thomas Furnival 1st Baron Furnivall (age 41), Hugh Bardolf 1st Baron Bardolf (age 41), Gilbert Talbot 1st Baron Talbot (age 24), William Deincourt 1st Baron Deincourt, Edmund Stafford 1st Baron Stafford (age 28), Walter Fauconberg 1st Baron Fauconberg (age 81).