Nicholas Latimer

Sir Nicholas Latimer of Duntish (* around 1429 ; † 1505 ) was an English knight .

Life

Sir Nicholas Latimer was a son of John Latimer.

Nicholas Latimer served as sheriff in Somerset in 1453, 1460 and 1471. He sat for Dorset 1453/54 in the House of Commons and in 1458 served as sheriff in Gloucestershire .

Latimer was close to the Beauforts and fought at the beginning of the Wars of the Roses for the House of Lancaster in 1460 at Wakefield and in 1461 at the battles of Mortimer's Cross and Towton .

After the defeat of Towton, Parliament under the victorious new King Edward IV imposed a Bill of Attainder on Nicholas Latimer , so that he lost all his rights and property. Most of his property went to John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk and the estate in Loxton , Somerset to Edward Gray, 1st Viscount Lisle .

Latimer moved north with the rest of the defeated Lancaster troops and fought in the defense of Dunstanburgh Castle . When the castle fell in 1462, he stopped fighting and tried to come to terms with the ruling House of York . Nicholas Latimer received royal pardon in 1463 , but his goods did not get back. Only the following year he was given the opportunity to buy back his former properties from the Duke of Norfolk. Edward Gray however refused to return Loxton.

In 1466 Latimer entered the service of George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence , who helped with the dispute over the Loxton estates. Two years later, the Bill of Attainder was also officially repealed and Latimer was fully rehabilitated.

When his master, the Duke of Clarence, began to rebel against his brother the king in 1469, Nicholas Latimer fought Edward IV at the Battle of Edgecote Moor and also supported the reinstatement of Henry VI known as the Readaption . 1470. Like the Duke of Clarence, Latimer changed sides again in time and fought for Edward IV in 1471 at the battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury . After Tewkesbury, Latimer was defeated to the Knight Banneret on the battlefield .

In the years 1472-1475 he represented the county of Dorset in Parliament as Knight of the Shire and was named Knight of the Kings Body . Sir Nicholas took part in the French campaign in 1475 and became Chamberlain with Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham .

Latimer attended Richard III's coronation ceremony in 1483 . present, but shortly afterwards joined the uprising of the Duke of Buckingham known as Buckingham's Rebellion . Sir Nicholas received pardon from the king in return for a payment obligation of 1,000 marks and a promise to serve faithfully in the future .

When Henry Tudor landed in England, Sir Nicholas joined and fought for Tudor against Richard III. on August 22, 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth .

Sir Nicholas died on February 20, 1505.

Marriage and offspring

Sir Nicholas was married to Jane Hody. The couple had no sons, but at least one daughter:

• Edith ⚭ Sir John Mordaunt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sylvantus Urban: The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. 92, Part 2, Issue 132, Nicholas + Son, London 1822, pp. 318, 319.
2. ^ John Collinson: The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset. Vol. I, R. Cruttwell, Bath 1791, p. Xxxvi.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q} Terry Breverton: Henry VII the Maligned Tudor King. Amberley Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4456-4606-0 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Malcolm Mercer: The Medieval Gentry: Power, Leadership and Choice during the Wars of the Roses. A&C Black, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4411-9064-2 , pp. 95, 130.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Towton Battlefield Society
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Charles Ross: Richard III. University of California Press, 1983, ISBN 0-520-05075-4 , p. 109.
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Richard III. Foundation Inc. ( Memento of the original from January 22nd, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e} T. C. Banks: Dormant and Extinct Baronage of England. Vol. II, T. Bensley, London 1808, p. 292.
9. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Rosemary Horrox: Richard III: A Study in Service , Cambridge University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-521-40726-5 , p. 167.
10. ^ ^{A b} John Sandler: The Red Rose and the White: The Wars of the Roses 1453-1487. Routledge, 2009, ISBN 978-1-317-90518-9 , p. 144.
11. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Michael Hicks: Richard III and his Rivals: Magnates and their Motives in the Wars of the Roses. A&C Black, 1991, ISBN 1-85285-053-1 , pp. 143, 149, 154.
12. ↑ James Bohn: The Chronicles of the White Rose of York. William Stevens, London 1845, p. 105.
13. ^ William A. Shaw: The Knights of England. Genealogical Publishing Com 1971, ISBN 0-8063-0443-X , p. 15.
14. ^ Louise Gill: Richard III and Buckingham`s Rebellion. Sutton, 1999, ISBN 0-7509-1686-9 , p. 31.
15. ↑ Richard Grafton: Grafton's Chronicles or History of England. Vol. II, J. Johnson, London 1809, p. 114.