LATIMER, John (c.1399-1459), of Duntish, Dorset.

b. c.1399, CIPM, xxii. 63, 65-67. s. and h. of Sir Robert Latimer (1361-1435), of Duntish, by Margaret Heton, da. of Katherine (d.1422), sometime w. of Sir Edmund Cheyne† (d.1376) of Poyntington, Som. and Sir John Stretch† (d.1390) of Pinhoe, Devon. Ibid. Margaret, alive by 1374, was not the da. of Cheyne or Stretch, but had been born to Katherine by an earlier undocumented marriage: The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 510-11. The ped. in J. Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 705 identifies her as a da. of Sir William Pecche, but if this was indeed the name of her fa. he cannot have been Sir William Pecche† of Lullingstone, Kent, who died in 1399: The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 32-33. It is unclear precisely what Latimer inherited from his maternal grandmother when she died in 1422. m. ?Katherine, da. of Sir John Pipard, The name of his wife is taken from the ped. in Hutchins, iii. 705. 1s. Nicholas*. Dist. Dorset 1439, 1458.