Editing Walter Langton (section)

==Origins==
His origins were long unclear but following recent research (Hughes, 1992) it is now apparent that he was the eldest son of Simon Peverel<ref>Jill Hughes, ''Episcopate of Walter Langton, Bishop of Coventry & Lichfield, 1296–1321'' (Ph.D. thesis 1992)[Vol. 1: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11108/1/315105_vol1.pdf][Vol. 2: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11108/2/315105_VOL2.pdf] "Langton's register clarifies the bishop's connections with the Peverel family of Leicestershire and Northamptonshire and shows that he was a Peverel by birth. Copies of charters preserved in his register, by which Langton granted land and the advowson of the church of Adlingfleet, Yorks., to Selby abbey, clearly state his paternity; Langton names himself as the son and heir of Simon Peverel (Reference: Bishop Langton's Register, nos. 1291, 1292, 1293)..."(Bishop] Langton's mother, Amicia Peverel, was buried at Langton (Leicestershire)" Quoted in "C.P. Addition: Parentage of Sir Robert Peverel (living 1312) and his brother Bishop Walter de Langton (died 1321) "[https://soc.genealogy.medieval.narkive.com/6RUWhso1/c-p-addition-parentage-of-sir-robert-peverel-living-1312-and-his-brother-bishop-walter-de-langton]</ref> of "Langton" in [[Leicestershire]],<ref name="EB1911"/> the exact location of which estate is uncertain (see below). He thus adopted the surname "de Langton" in lieu of his [[patronymic]]. His brother (it is now established) was Robert Peverel (d. 1317) of Brington and Ashby David in Northamptonshire,<ref>Jill Hughes;  Complete Peerage, 5 (1926): 76 (sub Engaine); Called "brother" in his inquisition post mortem [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol6/pp188-198]</ref> an ancestor of [[Baron Cobham|Joan de la Pole, ''suo jure'' 4th Baroness Cobham]] (d. 1434) "of Kent", whose prominent descendants the Brooke family, Barons Cobham, are known to have quartered the arms of Peverel of Langton (''Gules, a fess between nine cross-crosslets or'').<ref>See monument in Cobham Church, Kent[[:File:Arms WilliamBrooke 10thBaronCobham (1527-1597) CobhamChurch Kent.xcf]]; see: {{cite journal |last=D'Elboux |first=Raymond H. |title=The Brooke Tomb, Cobham |journal=Archaeologia Cantiana |volume=62 |year=1949 |pages=48-56, esp. pp.50-1 |url=https://kentarchaeology.org.uk/node/11056}} {{open access}}</ref> The Bishop, however, eschewed his paternal arms as well as surname, as his arms are said to have been ''Or, a fess chequy gules and azure''.<ref>''Or, a fess chequy gules and azure'' as tricked (or=or, b=blue/azure, g=gules) in a drawing by William Dugdale of a stained-glass image of the Bishop formerly in Lichfield Cathedral, see [[:File:WalterDeLangton Died1321 BishopOfCoventry&Lichfield AfterDugdale.png]]. The arms (apparently based on Dugdale's drawing) are blazoned slightly differently as ''Or, a fess compony azure and gules'' in Bedford, ''Blazons of Episcopacy'', 1858, p.57 [https://archive.org/details/blazonepiscopac00bedfgoog/page/n132/mode/2up]</ref> Langton appears to have been no relation of his contemporary, [[John Langton (bishop of Chichester)|John Langton]], [[Bishop of Chichester]].<ref name="EB1911"/>

===Estate of Langton===
"Langton" is an ancient parish situated four miles north of Market Harborough containing the five estates of [[Church Langton]] (the site of the "mother church of the parish"), [[East Langton]], [[Langton West]], [[Thorpe Langton]] and [[Tur Langton]], covering in total 4,409 acres. Although by tradition West Langton was the birth-place of the Bishop, the estate he later owned was Thorpe Langton.<ref>J M Lee and R A McKinley, 'Church Langton', in [[Victoria County History]], A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5, Gartree Hundred (London, 1964), pp. 193-213 [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/leics/vol5/pp193-213]</ref> From the 12th century the estate of Thorpe Langton was split into two [[fief|fees]], the "Huntingdon fee" and the "Basset fee", and it was the latter which was held by the Peverel family, from the Basset overlords. In 1279 Ralph Peverel held 3½ virgates in [[demesne]] and 2 virgates in villeinage, from his immediate feudal [[overlord]] a certain "Thomas de Langton", who in turn held of Richard Burdet, who held of Robert de Tateshall, who held of Ralph Basset, the [[tenant-in-chief]]. The Bishop succeeded Ralph Peverel as the principal tenant of the Basset fee, by a grant from Richard de Pydyngton, [[mesne lord]] and in 1300 he received a royal grant of [[free warren]] "over his demesne lands in Langton and Thorpe Langton". In 1307 his lands were declared forfeit, but in 1309 he is recorded as holding ¼ of a [[knight's fee]] in Thorpe Langton. On his death he held only 3 acres at Thorpe Langton.<ref>Lee &  McKinley, [[Victoria County History]]</ref>