John Whethamstede (died 20 January 1465) was an English abbot and one of the leading literary figures in fifteenth-century England.
[1] He was a son of Hugh and Margaret Bostock, and was born at Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire, owing his name, the Latin form of which is Frumentarius, to this circumstance.
[2] He died on 20 January 1465, and his tomb was recently discovered during archaeological excavations prior to the construction of the new Welcome Centre at St Albans Abbey.
He was also closely, if clumsily, associated with the humanistic activities of Henry V's youngest brother, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, who died in 1447 and was buried in St Albans Abbey, where he was honoured as a benefactor.
The events of his first abbacy are narrated in the Annales monasterii S. Albani of John Amundesham, also edited by Riley (London, 1870–1871).