LANGTON, Sir John (c.1387-1459), of Mowthorpe and Farnley, Yorks.

Family and Education

b. c.1387, s. of John Langton (d. by 1413) of Mowthorpe by his w. Joan, da. of Sir Robert Neville. m. by Mar. 1408, Euphemia (d.1463), 5s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. Kntd. by Dec. 1420.CP, v. 203-4; Test. Ebor. i. 404-5; ii. 258-60, 277-9; VCH Yorks. (N. Riding), ii. 204; VCH City of York, 70-71; CPL, vi. 145; CPR, 1413-16, p. 55.

Offices Held

Commr. of array, Yorks. (W. Riding) Mar. 1419; to escort Scottish hostages Feb. 1426, June 1429; make arrests Dec. 1428.

Sheriff, Yorks. by 16 June 1424–15 Jan. 1426.PRO, List ‘Sheriffs’, 162 gives Sir John’s date of appointment as 6 Nov. 1424, but he was clearly in office by 16 June of that year (CCR, 1422–9, p. 182).

Parlimentarian

LANGTON, Sir John (c.1387-1459), of Mowthorpe and Farnley, Yorks.

Main residences: Mowthorpe; Farnley, Yorks.

Author

C.R.

Volume

Commons 1386-1421

Web Title

LANGTON, Sir John (c.1387-1459)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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