James LUTTRELL

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Lyte, Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell, A History of Dunster, and of the families of Mohun & Luttrell, (London : St. Catherine Press, Ltd., 1909), Page 119.
In February 1449, James Luttrell obtained royal license to convey the castle and borough of Dunster, the manors of Minehead, Carhampton, and Kilton and the hundred of Carhampton to Feoffees, in order they they should be settled on himself and the heirs of his body, with remainder to his 'cousin, Richard Luttrell and the heirs of his body and ultimate remainder to his own heirs general.
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James Luttrell fought against the Duke of York at Wakefield at the end of December 1460, and was knighted by the Duke of Somerset on the field of battle. Seven weeks later, he again served under the victorious banner of Queen Margaret at the second battle of St. Albans, but he there received a wound of which he died on the fifth day.
The triumph of the House of York was disastrous to the Luttrells, who had been attached to the House of Lancaster ever since the days of John of Gaunt. Within a week of his accession to the throne, Edward the Fourth ordered the sheriff and escheator in Somerset and Dorset to seize all the possessions of the Dukes of Exeter and Somerset, the Earls of Devon, Wilts and Northumberland, Sir James Luttrell and Sir Alexander Hody, in those counties. Two months later, a somewhat wider commission was issued to Sir William Herbert, Thomas Herbert, John Herbert, and Hugh Huntley, to take possession of the lands of the Earls of Pembroke and Shrewsbury and Sir James Luttrell, who are specifically described as rebels. For some unknown reason, this commission was repeated in August. In the meanwhile, the king had granted to Sir William Bourchier the wardship and marriage of Alexander Luttrell, the infant heir, as if it had fallen to the Crown in the ordinary course. The Parliament, however, which sat in November 1461 passed a sweeping ordinance against all the chief supporters of Henry the Sixth. Sir James Luttrell was therein named amongst those who 'with grete despite and curell violence, horrible and unmanly tyrannye' murdered the late Duke of York at Wakefield, and who were consequently to 'stand and be convycted and attainted of high treason, and forfett to the King and his heires all the castles, maners and other lands of which they were or had been possessed. Lady Luttrell had, in the earlier months of her widowhood, been tacitly allowed to receive the issues of the lands settled on her in jointure, and when the king's officers took possession of these lands, she lodged a complaint against them, protesting that she was a loyal subject of the reigning monarch. A commission of enquiry was accordingly issued in September 1462, but it does not appear that she got much satisfaction.
(Source: History of West Virginia and It's People, (Volume 2. Charleston, WV: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913.).)
Sir James Luttrell, son of John Luttrell and his wife, Margaret (Tuchet) Luttrell, married his cousin, Elizabeth Courtenay, and on account of his taking sides with the House of Lancaster, forfeited all his lands by order of Edward the Fourth, along with the Earls Shrewsbury and Pembroke, his lands being given to Sir William Herbert, and afterwards to the King's son, and so remained until the success of the Lancastrian party on the field of Bosworth in August, 1485.
Burke, John., A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Vol. 1. London: Henry Colburn, n.d., Call Number: R929.725 B95 v.1, Page 143.
SIR JAMES LUTTRELL, who was made a KNIGHT-BANNERET at the battle of Wakefield, in 1463, and fell fighting under the standard of Lancaster, in 1471. He was subsequently attainted by King EDWARD IV. and his castle of Dunster, lordship of Carhampton, &c. granted to Sir Edward Herbert, knt. first Earl of Pembroke. He left by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir William Courtenay, eldest brother of Sir Edward Courtenay, of Haccombe, a son and successor, SIR HUGH LUTTRELL.
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Title: Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography
Publication: Volume 4, Richmond, Virginia, n.p. 1915.
Media: Book
Title: A History of Dunster, and of the families of Mohun & Luttrell
Author: Lyte, Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell
Publication: London : St. Catherine Press, Ltd., 1909
Call Number: 942.38/D1 H2L, DA690.D85 L8
Media: Book
The Royal Families of England Scotland & Wales by Burkes Peerage.. Indicates James died in 1471
Title: History of West Virginia and It's People
Publication: Volume 2. Charleston, WV: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913.
Media: Book
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