 1378 - 1449 (71 years)
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| Name |
Walter Hungerford |
| Suffix |
1st Baron Hungerford of Farleigh |
| Birth |
22 Jun 1378 |
Farleigh-Hungerford, Somersetshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
9 Aug 1449 |
| Burial |
Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England |
| Notes |
- «u»«b»Knight of the Garter«/b» <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/Knights%20of%20the%20Garter.htm>«/u». Son and heir of «b»Sir Thomas Hungerford«/b», by his 2nd wife, «b»Joan«/b», was strongly attached to the Lancastrian cause at the close of «b»Richard II«/b»'s reign, his father having been steward in «b»John of Gaunt«/b»'s household. On «b»Henry IV«/b»'s accession he was granted an annuity of 40 pounds out of the lands of «b»Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk«/b», and was knighted. In Oct 1400 he was returned to Parliament as member for Wiltshire, and was re-elected for that constituency in 1404, 1407, 1413, and Jan 1413-14, and represented the county of Somerset in 1409. He acted as speaker in the parliament meeting on 29 Jan 1413-14, the last parliament in which he sat in the House of Commons (cf. Manning, Lives of the Speakers, p. 55).
«b»Hungerford«/b» had already won renown as a warrior. In 1401 he was with the English army in France, and is said to have worsted the «b»French King«/b» in a duel outside Calais; he distinguished himself in battle and tournament, and received substantial reward. In consideration of his services he was granted in 1403 one hundred marks per annum, payable by the town and castle of Marlborough, Wiltshire, and was appointed sheriff of Wiltshire. On 22 Jul 1414 he was nominated Ambassador to treat for a league with «b»Sigismund, King of the Romans«/b» (Rymer, Foedera, vol. iv. pt. ii. p. 186), and as English envoy attended the council of Constance in that and the following year (cf. his accounts of expenses in Brit. Mus. Addit. MS 24513, f. 68). In the autumn of 1415 «b»Hungerford«/b» accompanied «b»Henry V«/b» to France with twenty men-at-arms and sixty horse archers (Nicholas, Agincourt, p. 381). He, rather than the «b»Earl of Westmoreland«/b», as in «b»Shakespeare«/b»'s '«i»Henry V«/i»', seems to have been the officer who expressed, on the eve of Agincourt, regret that the English had not ten thousand archers, and drew from the «b»King«/b» a famous rebuke (ib. pp. 105, 241). He fought bravely at the battle of Agincourt, but the assertion that he made the «b»Duke of Orleans«/b» prisoner is not substantiated. He was employed in May 1416 in diplomatic negotiations with Ambassadors of «b»Theodoric, Archbishop of Cologne«/b» (Rymer, vol. iv. pt ii. p. 158), and in Nov 1417 with envoys from from France (ib. vol. iv. pt. ii. p. 25). In 1417 he was made Admiral of the fleet under «b»John, Duke of Bedford«/b», and was with «b»Henry V«/b» in 1418 at the siege of Rouen. In Nov of the latter year he is designated the steward of the king's household (ib. vol. iv. pt. iii. p. 76), and was granted the Barony of Homet in Normandy. He took part in the peace negotiations of 1419, and on 3 May 1421 was installed Knight of the Garter (Beltz, Hist. of Garter, p. clviii).
«b»Hungerford«/b» was an executor of «b»Henry V«/b»'s will, and in 1422 became a member of «b»Protector Gloucester«/b»'s council. In 1424 he was made steward of the household of the infant King, «b»Henry VI«/b», and on 7 Jan 1425-6 was summoned to the House of Lords as Baron Hungerford. The summons was continued to him till his death. «b»Hungerford«/b» became treasurer in succession to «b»Bishop Stafford«/b», when «b»Bishop Beaufort«/b»'s resignation of the great seal in Mar 1426-7 placed Gloucestershire in supreme power. He acted as carver at «b»Henry VI«/b»'s coronation in Paris in Dec 1430 (Waurin, Chron., Rolls Ser., iv. 11), but on the change of ministry which followed «b»Henry VI«/b»'s return from France in Feb 1431-2, he ceased to be treasurer. He attended the conference at Arms in 1435 (Wars of Henry VI in France, Rolls ser., ed. Stevenson, ii. 431). He died on 9 Aug 1449, and was buried beside his first wife in Salisbury Cathedral, within the iron chapel erected by himself, which is still extant, although removed from its original position. By his marriages and royal grants «b»Hungerford«/b» added largely to the family estates. He was a man of piety, and built chanteries at Heytesbury and Chippenham, and made bequests to Salisbury and Bath Cathedrals. In 1428 he presented valuable estates to the Free Royal Chapel in the palace of St. Stephen at Westminster. He also built an almshouse for twelve poor men and a woman, and a schoolmaster's residence at Heytesbury. The original building was destroyed in 1765, but the endowment, which was regulated by statutes drawn up by «b»Margaret of Botreaux«/b», wife of «b»Hungerford«/b»'s son «b»Robert«/b», still continues (Jackson, Anc. Statutes of Heytesbury Almshouses, Devizes, 1863). Hungerford's will is printed in Nicolas's 'Testamenta Vetusta,' pp. 257-9. He left his '«i»best legend of the lives of the saints«/i»' to his daughter-in-law, «b»Margaret«/b», and a cup which «b»John of Gaunt«/b» had used to «b»John, Viscount Beaumont«/b».
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| Person ID |
I29804 |
Glenn Cook Family |
| Last Modified |
15 Oct 2007 |
| Father |
Sir Thomas de Hungerford d. 3 Dec 1398, Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England |
| Mother |
Joan Hussey, b. 1349, Holbrook, Somersetshire, England d. 21 Mar 1411, Farleigh Hungerford, Somersetshire, England (Age 62 years) |
| Marriage |
1376 |
| Family ID |
F13619 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Catherine Peverell, b. Abt 1382 d. Aft 14 Jun 1426 (Age ~ 44 years) |
| Marriage |
Bef 18 Sep 1402 |
Penhale, Cornwall, England |
| Children |
| | 1. Elizabeth Hungerford, b. Abt 1400, Hungerford, Somersetshire, England d. 14 Dec 1476 (Age ~ 76 years) |
| | 2. Sir Walter Hungerford, b. Abt 1407 d. 18 Feb 1431, Provence, France (Age ~ 24 years) |
| | 3. Sir Edmund (Edward) Hungerford, b. Abt 1409, Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England d. 26 Mar 1484, Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England (Age ~ 75 years) |
| | 4. Robert Hungerford, 2nd Baron Hungerford of Farleigh, b. 1409, Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England d. 18 May 1459 (Age 50 years) |
| | 5. Margaret Hungerford, b. Abt 1413 d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Family ID |
F13621 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Nov 2006 |
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