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  Walter Hungerford, Baron Hungerford - LoveToKnow 1911
Walter Hungerford also served as speaker, but he is more celebrated as a warrior and diplomatist, serving in the former capacity at Agincourt and in the latter at the council of Constance and the congress of Arras.
When the attainders of her father and grandfather were reversed in 1485 this lady became Baroness Hungerford and Baroness de Moleyns; she married into the Hastings family and was the mother of George Hastings, 1st earl of Huntingdon.
Sir Edward Hungerford (1596-1648), who inherited the estates of his kinsman Sir Edward in 1607, was the son of Sir Anthony (1564-1627) and a descendant of Walter, Lord Hungerford.
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 Walter HUNGERFORD (1º Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury)
On 20 Aug 1532 John, Lord Hussey of Sleaford, whose daughter was Hungerford's 3rd wife, wrote to Cromwell that Hungerford desired to be sheriff of Wiltshire, a desire which was gratified in 1533.
Hungerford married thrice: first Susan, daughter of Sir John Danvers of Dauntsey; second, in 1527, Alice, daughter of William, Lord Sandys; and third, in Oct 1532, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Hussey, Lord Hussey.
The elder, Sir Walter Hungerford, called 'the Knight of Farleigh', was granted land by Edward VI in 1552, and was restored by Queen Mary to the confiscated estate of Farleigh in 1554, when the attainder on his father was reversed.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/WalterHungerford(1BHeystesbury).htm   (675 words)

  
 Hungerford - LoveToKnow 1911
HUNGERFORD, a market town in the Newbury parliamentary division of Berkshire, England, extending into Wiltshire, 61 m.
A horn given to the town by John of Gaunt is preserved in the town hall, another horn dating from 1634 being used to summon the manorial court of twelve citizens called feoffees (the president being called the constable), at Hocktide, the Tuesday following Easter week.
In 1774, when a number of towns had taken action against the imposition of a fee for the delivery of letters from their local post-offices, Hungerford was selected as a typical case, and was first relieved of the imposition.
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 Westm Ests: Hungerford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Sir Walter Hungerford, Speaker of the House of Commons in 1414, Steward of the Household to Henry V and an executor of Henry's will, acquired a messuage at Charing in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, conveyed for the use of him and his heirs by Sir Robert Chalons and his wife Blanche in 1425.
Sir Walter became Baron Hungerford in 1426, and was Treasurer of England, 1426--32, and a leading member of the Council, as well as Chief Steward of the duchy of Lancaster.
Hungerford Inn, sometimes called Lord Moleyns inn, was granted to Anne Neville, dowager duchess of Buckingham, for life in 1462, and she occupied it with her 2nd husband Walter Blount, Lord Montjoy (d.
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 GENUKI: English Peerage 1790: Extinct Peerage - Barons (3)
Walter de Hungerford had summons to parliament in the reign of king Henry the sixth by the title of baron Hungerford.
Robert, third lord Hungerford, succeeded 1441 to the title of baron Molins in right of Eleanor, his wife, daughter of William fifth lord Molins, and 1461 to the titles of baron Newmarch, Moels and Botreaux, in right of Margaret, his mother, daughter of William Botreaux third lord Newmarch.
Walter Hungerford had summons to parliament in the reign of king Henry the eighth by the title of baron Hungerford, which title became extinct by his attainder 1539.
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 Bath Lodge Hotel - History
It was in 1412 that the village became known as Farleigh Hungerford.
Two members of the Hungerford family backed the wrong side of the Wars of the Roses and lost their heads as a consequence.
The executioner was obliged to follow her round the scaffold chopping at her head and succeeded eventually in hewing it from her shoulders.
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 Clonakilty Museum Pilot Digitisation Project Site
In 1426 he was M.P under the title Baron Hungerford and from that date Farleigh became known as Farleigh Hungerford.
Portrait of Richard Hungerford, who married another Becher of Skibbereen and in 1797 was commissioned as Captain of Ibane and Barryroe Infantry of the Yeomanry.
Due to the disaproval of the marriage by her Hungerford father in law, the family lived at Bandon where she took up writing to support the new family of two sons and one daughter.
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 Bayntun History :: Farleigh Castle
Farleigh Hungerford Castle was built sometime between 1370 and 1380 by Sir Thomas Hungerford, of Heytesbury – the first Speaker of the House of Commons (c1377).
Hungerford was very jealous of Bayntun's appointment and the two fellow Commanders are said to have quarreled a lot, each accusing the other of treachery.
It is said that Hungerford lived the last 30 years of his life on charity and died in 1711 at an advanced age of more than 100 years old.
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 Castle at Farleigh Hungerford. Frome Town Mendip Somerset at the Heart of Wessex England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In 1369 AD Sir Thomas de Hungerford bought the house from the childless daughter of the recently deceased squire, and the house later came to be known as Farleigh Hungerford.
Sir Walter Hungerford inherited the castle and, like his father was the Speaker of the House of Commons but, in 1426, he was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Hungerford.
Hungerford was a supporter of Cromwell and when he was defeated he was executed in 1540 for treason and unnatural vice.
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Hungerford is a market town and civil parish in Berkshire in the south-east of England, close to Newbury.
Hungerford is best remembered today for a particularly tragic aspect of the town’s history, the Hungerford Massacre, which was considered all the more remarkable for occurring in a sleepy place such as this.
Hungerford is situated on several transport routes, of both historic and current importance, including the M4 motorway (junction 14), the Old Bath Road (A4), and the Kennet and Avon Canal (opened 1811).
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 Britannia Castles: Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Somerset
The last Hungerford, who bore the Baronial title, was a victim of one of the suspicious fits of Henry VIll and lost his head in 1541.
Lady Agnes, second wife of the Hungerford of 1522, was accused of poisoning her husband and hung, along with one of her servants, as Stow's chronicle records.
Sir Edward Hungerford was a zealous Puritan, long commander of the Parliamentary levies of Wiltshire, "of eminent zeal for his country," as his tomb of 1648 in the chapel records.
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 HUNGERFORD
Son and heir of Sir Thomas Hungerford, by his 2nd wife, Joan, was strongly attached to the Lancastrian cause at the close of Richard II's reign, his father having been steward in John of Gaunt's household.
In 1486 Farleigh Hungerford Castle was restored to the Hungerfords by Henry VII.
Notes: Sir Walter Hungerford of Farleigh is given as "half-brother" of Sir Edward Hungerford in the source.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /HUNGERFORD.htm   (2228 words)

  
 Maternal Ahnentafel
Walter Hungerford Baron Hungerford was born 22 Jun 1378 in of, Farleigh-Hungerg, Somersetshire, England.
William Botreaux Baron Botreaux was born 1367 in Of Botylet, Lanreath, Cornwall, England and was christened in (24-1391).
Henry Beaumont Baron Beaumont was born 1340 in of, Falkingham, Lincolnshire, England.
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 Sir Walter Hungerford
Son and heir of Sir Thomas Hungerford, by his 2nd wife, Joan, was strongly attached to the Lancastrian cause at the close of Richard II's reign, his father having been steward in John of Gaunt's household.
In the autumn of 1415 Hungerford accompanied Henry V to France with twenty men-at-arms and sixty horse archers (Nicholas, Agincourt, p.
Hungerford was an executor of Henry V's will, and in 1422 became a member of Protector Gloucester's council.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Hungerford
Hungerford is best-remembered today for a particularly tragic aspect of the town’s (and indeed the nation's) history, the Hungerford Massacre on 19 August 1987, which was considered all the more remarkable for occurring in a prosperous, sleepy backwater such as this.
Hungerford is located on the River Dun in the Kennet Valley at.
Hungerford is part of the district administered by the unitary authority of West Berkshire.
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 Additional notes | British History Online
In the Hungerford pedigree printed by Gough, the name of Alice, as a wife, does not appear at all in that branch of the family.
Sir Walter Hungerford of Farleigh Castle, the then head of the family, who was created Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury in 1536.
Sir Walter Hungerford of Farleigh Castle (afterwards Lord Hungerford of Heytesbury) is the only person in the entire Hungerford history upon whom the least probability of connexion with the story can be attached.
www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=51591   (1704 words)

  
 Furniture in the Middle Ages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The feudal system by which every powerful baron became a petty sovereign, often at war with his neighbour, rendered it necessary that household treasures should be few and easily transported or hidden, and the earliest oak chests which are still preserved date from about this time.
Hungerford Pollen has quoted a royal precept which was promulgated in this year, and it plainly shows that our ancestors were becoming more refined in their tastes.
Hungerford Pollen has given us a long description of this chair, with quotations from the different historical notices which have appeared concerning it.
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 Viscount St Davids - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The title Viscount St Davids, of Lydstep Haven in the County of Pembroke, was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1918.
Lord St Davids also holds the titles Baron Strange (de Knokyn) (created 1299), Baron Hungerford (1426) and Baron Moleyns (1445) in the Peerage of England and Baron St Davids, of Roch Castle in the County of Pembroke (1908) in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
The abeyance of the English peerages were terminated in favour of the 2nd Viscount's mother in 1921.
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 Farleigh Hungerford
Walter was also Speaker of the House of Commons - until he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Hungerford, in 1426.
Meanwhile, Walter Hungerford was showing rather better judgment than his grandfather, and chose the right side at Bosworth Field, where Richard III was killed.
The Hungerford family was split by the Civil War.
www.strum.co.uk /twilight/farleigh.htm   (761 words)

  
 Lord Hastings - South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
His son, the second Baron, married Mary, daughter of Robert Hungerford, 3rd Baron Hungerford, who had been attainted in 1461.
Their son, the third Baron, inherited the Barony of Hastings from his father and the Baronies of Hungerford, Botreaux and De Moleyns from his mother.
In 1871 the Baronies of Botreaux, Hungerford, Moleyns and Hastings were called out of abeyance in favour of Edith, Countess of Loudoun (but not the Barony of Grey de Ruthyn, which was called out of abeyance in 1885 in favour of a different heir).
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 Noble Ancestry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Jane Hungerford [12] was the daughter of Anthony Hungerford [13] and Lucy Hungerford [13], thus uniting two branches of the Hungerford family.
Walter Hungerford, the 1st Baron Hungeford, was the son of Thomas Hungerford and Joan, daughter of Sir Edmund Hussey.
The family of Margaret Botreux [19], wife of Robert Hungerford, is of considerable interest because her ancestors includes such historically prominent surnames as Beaumont, de Clare, de Vere, Daubeney, de Chaworth, Comyn, Moels, Saint Maur (Seymour), Beauchamp, and several Plantagenets.
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 Family of Barbara L. Sherman - pafg56 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Baron Walter Hungerford was born on 22 Jun 1378 and died on 9 Aug 1449.
Thomas Hungerford was born before 1383 in Farleigh, Hungerford, Somersetshire, England.
Robert Rhodolph Hungerford was born before 1383 in Farleigh, Hungerford, Somersetshire, England.
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 [No title]
1522) was the father of Walter, Lord Hungerford of Heytesbury (1503–1540), who was created a baron in 1536, but was attainted for his alleged sympathy with the Pilgrimage of Grace; he was beheaded on the 28th of July 1540, the same day as his patron Thomas Cromwell.
Sir Edward Hungerford (1596–1648), who inherited the estates of his kinsman Sir Edward in' 1607, was the son of Sir Anthony (1564–1627) and a descendant of Walter, Lord Hungerford.
This Anthony's son and heir was Sir Edward Hungerford (1632–1711), the founder of Hungerford market at Charing Cross, London.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=33925&locale=en   (599 words)

  
 BARON WALTER HUNGERFOR... - Online Information article about BARON WALTER HUNGERFOR...
Walter Hungerford also served as speaker, but he is more celebrated as a See also:
Sir Edward Hungerford (1596–1648), who inherited the estates of his kinsman Sir Edward in' 1607, was the son of Sir See also:
Anthony (1564–1627) and a descendant of Walter, Lord Hungerford.
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The Parliament, held at Leicester, was known as the 'Parliamen 1 CONC t of Bats' and during it Lord Hungerford was appointed Chancellor o 1 CONC f the Exchequer.
To reduce the power of the landholding Barons, royal assent was re 1 CONC quired prior to the fortification of the new, more comfortable bric 1 CONC k manor houses which had come into style as homes of the landed gentr 1 CONC y.
Thomas Hungerford purchased the manor in 13 1 CONC 69, and fortified it as a castle in 1384.
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 Wiltshire County Council - Wiltshire Community History Get Printed Material Information
He was created Baron Hungerford, of Heytesbury, in 1426, was made K.G., Steward of the Household, High Treasurer, and Lord High Admiral, and in 1427 obtained from the Crown a grant of the manor of Cricklade, including the advowson of S. Sampson’s Church.
His son, Sir John Hungerford, built the existing flying buttresses of the Lady Chapel in 1569, as well as a market house in the High Street which was pulled down in 1812.
The original badge of the Hungerfords was the sickle - this, allied with the pepper garb of Peverell, formed the Hungerford crest: - out of a ducal coronet, or, a pepper garb of the first between two sickles proper.
www.wiltshire.gov.uk /community/getprinted.php?id=1029   (3160 words)

  
 Baron Portal of Hungerford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She died without issue, and the barony became extinct on her death.
Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893-1971) (viscountcy extinct)
Rosemary Portal, 2nd Baroness Portal of Hungerford (1923-1990)
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 Stover at Yale.20
Hungerford rose with the stiffness of the night, and coming to Stover, took him by the shoulders.
Hungerford and Bob Story, Dopey McNab often, tried to keep up with him, but, understanding their motives, he was proudly sensitive, and sought rather to avoid them.
Meanwhile the opposition to the sophomore societies reached the point of open revolt, and a mass meeting was held, which, as had been planned, caused a stir throughout the press of the country, and brought in from the alumni a storm of protest.
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 Roberson William Hughes Jr - pafg27 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Walter Hungerford Baron Hungerford was born Jun 22 1378 in of, Farleigh-Hungerg, Somersetshire, England.
She died Jun 14 1426 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England and was buried in Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
William Botreaux Baron Botreaux was born Feb 20 1388 in, Lincolnshire, England.
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 Charlton Musgrove | British History Online
Bures held the manor by curtesy of England until his death and was followed by Sir John de Ferrers, Baron Ferrers of Chartley, grandson of Hawise.
Records of the twice-yearly Charlton court baron survive for 1639-48 and presentments of the homage concerned maintenance of houses, fences, and ditches.
The advowson descended with Charlton manor until the death of Charles Stourton, Baron Stourton, in 1557.
www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=18750   (5307 words)

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