LANGFORD, Sir William (c.1366-1411), of Bradfield, Berks.

b. c.1366, s. of Sir Thomas Langford (d.1391) of Chale, I.o.W. and Bradfield by Joan (d.1393), da. and h. of Nicholas de la Bere of ‘Halywell’, Hants.CIPM, xvi. 1013-16; C136/81/13. For his descent from Nicholas de la Bere see Genealogist, n.s. xxiv. 50, although at his mother’s death the heir to her manor of ‘Halywell’ was her eldest son by an earlier marriage, Gilbert Estne. m. (1) by Nov. 1387, Anne (b.1370), er. da. and coh. of John Beverley (d.1380) of Hitchen, Herts. by Amy, da. of Sir Alan Buxhull; KG (d.1381), 3s. 1da.; (2) bef. July 1411, Lucy (d. Apr. 1420), 1da. Kntd. bef. Nov. 1387.