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Birth:          ABT 1205 Walworth, Durham, England
Death:          AFT 1242 Bozeat, Northamptonshire, England

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In Bozeat, 2 hides less 1 virgate were the property of Waltheof Earl of Huntingdon 
before the Conquest, and were held by his wife the Countess Judith in the Domesday 
Survey. The overlordship of this manor, later known as the manor of LATIMERS, 
descended with the earldom and honor of Huntingdon as Yardley Hastings (q.v.).

Under Earl Waltheof this property was held by Stric. In 1086 Lanzelin was the 
Countess Judith's tenant, the pre-Conquest value of 40s. remaining unaltered. The 
family of de Moreville were undertenants of this fee in the 12th century, and an inquiry 
held in the reign of King John showed that Richard de Moreville (Constable of the King 
of Scotland and father of Helen de Moreville) had been seised of the land of 
Whissendine (Rutland) and Bozeat, and later had been disseised on account of the 
war between Henry II and King William of Scotland. To Earl David's counterclaim that 
King Henry had granted the land to his brother King William, who had then granted it 
to himself to hold in demesne, Helen de Moreville objected that it was only the service 
rendered for the land which had been granted to him by the King of Scotland. Alan de 
Galway, the son of Helen de Moreville, married Margaret, the daughter of Earl David, 
and received a grant of 2 fees in Whissendine and Bozeat to hold of him by homage 
and service. Alan de Galway and his mother appear in 1213 as owing 600 marks and 6 
palfreys for the foregoing inquiry. A fee in Bozeat appears in 1242 as held of Henry de 
Hastings by John Hansard. The Hansards were still in possession of this fee in 1275, 
when it was ordered that the manor of Bozeat, held in chief by Gilbert Hansard, should 
be taken into the king's hands, as he had alienated it without licence. Probably he 
had sold it to one of the Mowbrays, as in 1312 a fee held by John Mowbray in Bozeat 
was included among the fees held at his death by John de Hastings. The declaration 
in 1318 that there never were any lands in Bozeat of ancient demesne may indicate 
that the Hastings overlordship had been called in question. William Latimer at his 
death in 1336 held the manor of Bozeat of John de Mowbray by service of one 
knight's fee. At the death of Laurence de Hastings, Earl of Pembroke, in 1348, one 
fee was held of him by John de Mowbray in Bozeat, and another by William Latimer 
(son of the last-named William). After this date the Mowbray mesnelordship is not 
again recorded. The other fee came to the Latimers through the Twengs and the 
Bruces, and was also for a time returned as held in chief by them. Robert de Tweng 
appears to have claimed view of frankpledge in Bozeat in 1275. On 15 October 1285 
the custody of the manor of Bozeat, during minority of the heir of Robert de Tweng, 
was granted to Roger de Fricurt, king's yeoman, and in February 1294 the manor of 
Bozeat was in the king's hands by reason of the minority of Lucy daughter and heir of 
Robert de Tweng, tenant in chief. Lucy had inherited property in the north as grand-
daughter and heir of Marmaduke de Tweng and of Lucy sister and co-heir of Peter de 
Bruce. In 1311 Lucy de Tweng and William Latimer her husband made a settlement of 
the manors of Danby, co. York, and of Bozeat, both of the inheritance of Lucy, to 
William Latimer to hold for life, with remainder to William their son. In 1316 Bozeat was 
assessed with Easton [Maudit] and with half Strixton, William Latimer appearing among 
the tenants then enumerated.

On 3 November 1328 a grant of free warren was made by Edward III to William Latimer 
in the manors of Scredington (co. Lincoln) and of Bozeat. He claimed view of 
frankpledge in 1329 as having been held with the manor by Lucy de Bruce, who 
enfeoffed of the manor his father William Latimer.

After the death of William Latimer in 1335 the manor was held in dower by his widow 
Elizabeth until her death on 11 April 1384. Her son Sir William Latimer predeceased 
her, dying on 28 May 1381, and his heir was his daughter Elizabeth, wife of John de 
Neville Lord of Raby. The manor was then assigned in dower to his widow, also named 
Elizabeth, who at her death in 1389 was returned as holding it of the Earl of Pembroke 
by service of half a knight's fee, of the inheritance of her daughter Elizabeth. Lady 
Elizabeth Neville married as her second husband Sir Robert de Willoughby of Eresby, 
and died seised of the manor of Bozeat in 1395. Lady Elizabeth's heir by her first 
husband was their son John Neville, but after her death the manor was held by her 
second husband Sir Robert de Willoughby until he died on 9 August 1396. It was then 
returned as held of the honor of Huntingdon, but by what service was not known. In 
1428 Bozeat was assessed for feudal aids as 1 fee held by Lord Latimer of the honor 
of Huntingdon. John de Neville, Lord Latimer, died s.p. in 1430–1, having entailed the 
manor on Ralf Earl of Westmoreland, his step-brother, i.e. the son of his father John 
Lord Neville by his first wife Maud daughter of Lord Percy. By Earl Ralf it was 
bestowed on his third son, Sir George Neville, who with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of 
Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, made settlement of it in 1444. He, as Sir George 
Neville Lord Latimer, died seised of it jointly with his wife Elizabeth on 30 December 
1469, his heir being his grandson Richard Neville, son of his son Henry, who had been 
slain that year. In the inquisition taken on the following 10 May he was said to have 
held the manor of the heirs of Thomas d'Evreux by half a knight's fee, but this was 
evidently a confusion with the manor of Marshes (q.v.). Elizabeth, his widow, died on 
27 October 1480, when it was returned that she had granted the stewardship of the 
manor to Richard Maryette. Her grandson Sir Richard Neville of Latimer succeeded 
her. On 3 April 1500 he and his wife Anne made a settlement of this and other manors. 
Sir Richard was succeeded by his son John Lord Latimer, whose son John Lord 
Latimer next succeeded, and died at Snape in Yorkshire on 22 April 1577 leaving four 
daughters as his co-heirs: Catherine, wife of Henry Earl of Northumberland; Dorothy, 
wife of Sir Thomas Cecil; Lucy, wife of William Cornwallis, esq.; and Elizabeth, wife of 
Sir John Danvers. These ladies, with their husbands, were dealing by fine with the 
manors of Bozeat, Church Brampton, Stowe, and Kislingbury in 1579, and in 1580 the 
manors of Bozeat and Church Brampton were conveyed to Sir Thomas Cecil and his 
wife Dorothy by Richard Neville and his wife Barbara.

[VCH Northampton, L. F. Salzman, 1937, vol 4, pp. 3-7]

Parents
HANSARD Gilbert (BEF 1178 - ABT 1223)
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Siblings
HANSARD John (ABT 1205 - AFT 1242)

Marriage To DE MOWBRAY Maud (ABT 1212 - AFT 1238)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE MOWBRAY William (ABT 1172 - Nov 1266)
D'AUBIGNY Avice (ABT 1176 - )

Children by DE MOWBRAY Maud ABT 1212 - AFT 1238
HANSARD Robert (ABT 1238 - )

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