Name and Title
All of these, and the title of Viscount Latimer, belong to the descendants of the same medieval family, whose surname was Latimer (Latiner or "translator"); the fourteenth century form of the name should therefore be le Latimer, but it is often found as de Latimer as though it were a placename.
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