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Name HUNGERFORD, Walter Prefix Baron Birth 22 Jun 1378 Hungerford, Berkshire, England 
Gender Male Death 9 Aug 1449 Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Burial 10 Aug 1449 Salisbury, Wiltshire, England WAC 2 Jun 1933 ARIZO _TAG Reviewed on FS Headstones 
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Father HUNGERFORD, Thomas , b. Abt 1330, Hungerford, Berkshire, England Hungerford, Berkshire, Englandd. 3 Dec 1397, Farleigh, Surrey, England (Age 67 years) Mother STRUG, Eleanor , b. Abt 1334, Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England Heytesbury, Wiltshire, Englandd. Bef 1376 (Age < 41 years) Family ID F23667 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 PEVERELL, Baroness Katherine , b. Mar 1382, Park Hamatethy, Penhale, Cornwall, England Park Hamatethy, Penhale, Cornwall, Englandd. 14 Jun 1426, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England (Age 44 years) Marriage Bef 18 Sep 1402 Penhale, Cornwall, England 
Children5 sons and 3 daughters Family ID F23665 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
Family 2 BERKELEY, Alianore , b. 1400, Beverston, Gloucestershire, England Beverston, Gloucestershire, Englandd. 1 Aug 1455, Arundel Castle, Sussex, England (Age 55 years) Marriage Bef 8 May 1439 Beverston, Gloucestershire, England Family ID F23666 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
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Notes - Sir Walter Hungerford, K.G., was Lord Treasurer of England. He served with Henry V in France and was at Agincourt. According to Asimov, it was he rather than Westmoreland who who wished for 10,000 more men on the eve of the Battle. He was taken prisoner at the Siege of Orleans, and is referred to in Henry V, Act I, Scene i, line 145-6.
Sir (titled) Lord Treasurer of England
Hungerford, Walter
From Burk's Extinct Peerages pages 291-292
abt. 1400
Sir Walter Hungerford, Knt., in consideration of his eminent services obtained, upon the accession of King Henry IV., a grant of £100 per annum, to be received out of the lands of Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk. In three years afterwards Sir Walter was engaged in the wars of France, and subsequently, for his expenses in those wars, and especially at Calais, where acquired great honour by encountering a knight of France, he had a further grant of 100 marks per annum, payable out of the town and castle of Marlborough, in Wilts., and the same year was constituted sheriff of the co. In the 13th Henry IV., upon the death of Joane, his mother, he had livery of the manors of Heytesbury and Tesfount-Ewyas,. co. Wilt. and of Farle-Mountfort, and others in Somersetshire, his homage being respited. In the 4th Henry V. Sir Walter was constituted admiral of the whole fleet under John, Duke of Bedford and during that and the next two years he appears to have been entirely engaged in the wars of France. In the latter years, being at the time steward of the King's household, and in his service at the siege of Roan, he obtained a grant in special tail, of the Barony of Homet, in Normandy, which had formerly been enjoyed by Sir William de Montney, Knt,; rendering to the King and his heirs one lance, with a fox-tail hanging thereat yearly, upon the feast day of the exaltation of the Holy Cross and finding ten men at arms and twenty archers, to serve him, or his lieutenant during his wars with France. About this time Sir Walter was chosen a knight of the Garter. Continuing to acquire fresh laurels on the French soil, this gallant soldier obtained a further grant for his services in the 9th of the same reign, of the castle of Neville, and territory of Breant, in Normandy, with divers other lands, which had been the possessions of Sir Robert de Breant, Knt. Sir Walter was one of the executors to the will of Henry V., and in the 2nd of the ensuing reign he was con -
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of England," he gave to the dean and canons of the Free-Royal-Chapel of St. Stephen, within the King's palace at Westminster, divers houses and shops in the parish of St. Anthony, within the city of London, in consideration whereof, they covenanted to make him partaker of all their masses and suffrages, during his life, and after his death to celebrate his obit. annually, with Placebo and Dirige, and mass of Requiem, and to make distribution thereat, of twenty pence to the dean, to every canon twelve pence, to every vicar six pence, to every clerk four pence, and to the verger six pence. In three years afterwards, being still lord treasurer of England, his lordship had license to transport 3,000 marks for the ransom of Sir Walter Hungerford, his son, then a prisoner in France. His lordship m. 1st Catherine, one of the daus. and co-heirs of Thomas Peverell, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Sir Thomas Courtenay, Knt., by whom he had issue.
Lord Hungerford m. 2ndly, Eleanor, Countess of Arundel, dau. of Sir John Berkeley, Knt., but had not issue. He was summoned to parliament as a Baron, from the 4th to the 26th of King Henry VI's reign inclusive. By his testament bearing date 1 July 1449, wherein he styleth himself Lord Hungerford, Heytesbury, and Homet, he directs his body to be buried in a certain chapel in the cathedral church at Salisbury, in which he had founded a perpetual chantry for two chaplains, and wherein Catherine, his 1st wife, lay buried; and after some pious bequests, he leaves to Alianore, Countess of Arundel, his then wife, all his plate, both of silver and gold, and likewise all those other goods and chattels, which were hers while she was unmarried. Th Sir Robert Hungerford, his son, his best Dorser of Arras. To the Lady Margaret, wife of his said son, his best legend of the lives of saints, written in French, and covered with red cloth. To Robert Hungerford, Lord Molines, his grandson, his best pair of cuirasses, with all belonging thereto; to he made choice of by him, out of the armory at Farley-Hungerford. To his son, Sir Edmund Hungerford, Knt., a cup of gold, with a cover, and a sapphire on the ehad therof. To Elizabeth, his dau., a cup of gold. To Margaret, his other dau., a bed of silk, of black and green colour and because his much honoured lord, the Viscount Beaumont, was lineally descended from the Dukes of Lancaster, he bequeathed unto him a cup of silver, with a cover bordered with gold, with which cup the most noble Prince John, Duke of Lancaster, was often served; and in which he did use to drink so long as he lived. And lastly, for the better advancement of Arnulph and William Hungerford (sons of the said Sir Robert Hungerford, Knt., his son), in the marriages, and Mary, dau. of the said Sir Robert, he bequeaths to them 700 marks sterling. His lordship d. in 1449.
BIO: from Wikipedia listing for Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford, as of 10/9/14
Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford KG (1378–1449) was an English knight, landowner, from 1400 to 1414 Member of the House of Commons, of which he became Speaker, then was an Admiral and peer.
He won renown in the Hundred Years War, fighting in many engagements, including the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. He was an English envoy at the Council of Constance in 1415. In 1417 he was made admiral of the fleet. On the death of Henry V he was an executor of Henry's will and a member of Protector Gloucester's council. He attended the conference at Arras in 1435, and was a Member of the House of Lords sitting as Baron Hungerford from January 1436 until his death in 1449. For some years he was Treasurer of England.
Early life
Son and heir of Sir Thomas Hungerford, by his second 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. On Henry IV's accession he was granted an annuity of £40 out of the lands of Margaret, duchess of Norfolk, and was knighted.[1]
Public life
In October 1400 he was returned to parliament as knight of the shire (MP) for Wiltshire, and was re-elected for that constituency in 1404, 1407, 1413, and January 1413–14, and represented the county of Somerset in 1409. He acted as speaker in the parliament meeting on 29 January 1413–14, the last parliament in which he sat in the House of Commons.[2]
He was appointed Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1405 and Sheriff of Dorset and Somerset for 1414 (during which time he pronounced his own selection as MP for Wiltshire).[3]
Hungerford also won renown as a warrior. In 1401 he was with the English army in France, and is said to have worsted the French king 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 July 1414 he was nominated ambassador to treat for a league with Sigismund, king of the Romans,[4] and as English envoy attended the council of Constance in that and the following year.[5]
In the autumn of 1415 Hungerford accompanied Henry V to France with twenty men-at-arms and sixty horse archers.[6] He, rather than the Earl of Westmoreland, as in Shakespeare's ' Henry V,' 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 king a famous rebuke.[7] He fought bravely at the battle of Agincourt, but the assertion that he took Charles, Duke of Orléans prisoner is not substantiated. He was employed in May 1416 in diplomatic negotiations with ambassadors of Theodoric, archbishop of Cologne[8] and in November 1417 with envoys from France.[9]
In 1417 he was made admiral of the fleet under John, Duke of Bedford, and was with Henry V in 1418 at the siege of Rouen. In November of the latter year he is designated the steward of the king's household,[10] and was granted the barony of Hornet in Normandy. He took part in the peace negotiations of 1419, and on 3 May 1421 was installed knight of the Garter.[11]
Hungerford was an executor of Henry V's will, and in 1422 became a member of Protector Gloucester's council. In 1424 he was made steward of the household of the infant king, Henry VI, and on 7 January 1425-6 was summoned to the House of Lords as Baron Hungerford. The summons was continued to him till his death. Hungerford became Treasurer of England in succession to Bishop Stafford, when Bishop Beaufort's resignation of the great seal in March 1426-7 placed Gloucester in supreme power. He acted as carver at Henry VI's coronation in Paris in December 1430,[12] but on the change of ministry which followed Henry VI's return from France in February 1431-2, he ceased to be treasurer. He attended the conference at Arras in 1435.[13] He died on 9 August 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.[14]
Family
Hungerford married firstly Catherine (daughter of Sir Thomas Peverell of Parke and Hamatethy, Cornwall,[3] and Margaret Courtenay (1355–1422[citation needed]) daughter of Sir Thomas Courtenay (died 1356[citation needed]) of Woodhuish, Devon[3]) with whom he had three sons and at least one daughter:
Walter, who was made a prisoner of war in France in 1425, was ransomed by his father for three thousand marks, was in the retinue of the Duke of Bedford in France in 1435, and died without issue.[15]
Robert, by whom he was succeeded.
Edmund, who was knighted by Henry VI after the Battle of Verneuil on Whit-Sunday 1426,[16] and married Margaret, daughter and coheiress of Edward Burnell, by whom had two sons:
Thomas, ancestor of the Hungerfords of Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, of the Hungerfords of Windrush, Oxfordshire, and the Hungerfords of Black Bourton, Oxfordshire.
Edward, ancestor of the Hungerfords of Cadenham, Wiltshire.[17]
Elizabeth, who married Sir Philip Courtenay (1404–1463) of Powderham, grandson of Sir Philip Courtenay (1340–1406) of Powderham.[citation needed]
He married secondly Eleanor (died 1 August 1455), daughter of Sir John Berkeley of Beverstone and his second wife, Elizabeth Betteshorne,(and widow successively of John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel (died 21 April 1421), and Sir Richard Poynings (died 10 June 1429)), with whom he had no children.[18][19]
Benefactions
By his marriages and royal grants Hungerford added largely to the family estates. He was a man of piety, and built chantries 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 Margaret de Botreaux, wife of Hungerford's son Robert, still continues.[20] In his will he left his "best legend of the lives of the saints" to his daughter-in-law, Margaret, and a cup which John of Gaunt had used to John, viscount Beaumont.[21]
In 1407 Hungerford donated the advowson of the church in Rushall, Wiltshire (of which he was lord of the manor) to the canons of Longleat Priory, who were struggling to support themselves financially.[22]
Notes
Lee 1891, p. 258.
Lee 1891, p. 258 cites: Manning, Lives of the Speakers, p. 55.
Roskell & Kightly 1993.
Lee 1891, p. 258 cites: Rymer, Fœdera, vol. iv. pt. ii. p. 186
Lee 1891, p. 258 cites: cf. his accounts of expenses in Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 24513, f. 68.
Lee 1891, p. 258 cites: Nicolas, Agincourt, p. 381
Lee 1891, p. 258 cites: Nicolas, Agincourt pp. 105, 241.
Lee 1891, p. 258 cites: Rymer, Fœdera, vol. iv. pt. ii. p. 158.
Lee 1891, p. 258 cites: Rymee, Fœdera, vol. iv. pt. ii. p. 25.
Lee 1891, p. 258 cites: Rymer, Fœdera, vol. iv. pt. iii. p. 76.
Lee 1891, p. 258 cites: Beltz, Hist. of Garter, p. clviii.
Lee 1891, p. 258 cites: Waurin, Chron., Rolls Ser.,iv. 11
Lee 1891, p. 258 cites: Wars of Henry VI in France, Rolls Ser., ed. Stevenson, ii. 431.
Lee 1891, pp. 258–259.
Lee 1891, p. 259
Lee 1891, p. 259 cites: Metcalfe, Book of Knights, p.1
Lee 1891, p. 259.
Richardson II 2011, p. 428.
Richardson III 2011, pp. 394-5.
Lee 1891, p. 259 cites: Jackson, Anc. Statutes of Heytesbury Almshouses, Devizes, 1863.
Lee 1891, p. 259 cites Nicholas Harris Nicolas's Testamenta Vetusta, pp. 257–9
Pugh & Crittall 1956, p. 302–303.
References
Pugh, R.B.; Crittall, Elizabeth, eds. (1956). "Houses of Augustinian canons: Priory of Longleat". A History of the County of Wiltshire 3. pp. 302–303. Retrieved June 2013.
Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G., ed. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families II (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 1449966381.
Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G., ed. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families III (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 144996639X.
Roskell, J. S.; Kightly, Charles (1993). Roskell, J.S.; Clark, L.; Rawcliffe, C., eds. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421. Boydell and Brewer.
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney (1891). "Hungerford, Walter (d.1449)". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 258,259.
Dugdale's Baronage; Burke's Extinct Peerage;
Collinson's Somerset, iii. 354;
Hoare's Hungerfordiana, 1823;
Maclean's Trigg Minor, i. 358 sq.;
Hoare's Mod. Wiltshire, Heytesbury Hundred;
Kymer's Fcedera;
Stubbs's Const. Hist.;
Nicolas's Battle of Agincourt, 1832;
Monstrelet's Chroniques, ed. Doiiet d'Arcq (Soc. de 1'Hist. de France), 1862, ii. 404, iv. 93, vi. 314;
Manning's Lives of the Speakers.
** from http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hungerford,_Walter_%28d.1449%29_%28DNB00%29, as of 10/9/14
HUNGERFORD, 'Sir WALTER, Lord Hungerford (d. 1449), son and heir of Sir Thomas Hungerford [q. v.], by his second 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. On Henry IV's accession he was granted an annuity of 40l. out of the lands of Margaret, duchess of Norfolk, and was knighted. In October 1400 he was returned to parliament as member for Wiltshire, and was re-elected for that constituency in 1404, 1407, 1413, and January 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).
Hungerford had already won renown as a warrior. In 1401 he was with the English army in France, and is said to have worsted the French king 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 July 1414 he was nominated ambassador to treat for a league with Sigismund, king of the Romans (Rymer, Fœdera, 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 Hungerford accompanied Henry V to France with twenty men-at-arms and sixty horse archers (Nicolas, Agincourt, p. 381). He, rather than the Earl of Westmoreland, as in Shakespeare's `Henry V,' 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 king a famous rebuke (ib. pp. 105, 241). He fought bravely at the battle of Agincourt, but the assertion that he made the Duke of Orleans prisoner is not substantiated. He was employed in May 1416 in diplomatic negotiations with ambassadors of Theodoric, archbishop of Cologne (Rymer, vol. iv. pt. ii. p. 158), and in November 1417 with envoys from France (ib.vol.iv.pt.ii.p.25). In 1417 he was made admiral of the fleet under John, duke of Bedford, and was with Henry V in 1418 at the siege of Rouen. In November 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).
Hungerford was an executor of Henry V's will, and in 1422 became a member of Protector Gloucester's council. In 1424 he was made steward of the household of the infant king, Henry VI, 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. Hungerford became treasurer in succession to Bishop Stafford, when Bishop Beaufort's resignation of the great seal in March 1426-7 placed Gloucester in supreme power. He acted as carver at Henry VI's coronation in Paris in December 1430 (Waurin, Chron., Rolls Ser.,iv.11), but on the change of ministry which followed Henry VI's return from France in February 1431-2, he ceased to be treasurer. He attended the conference at Arras 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 Hungerford added largely to the family estates. He was a man of piety, and built chantries 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 Margaret of Botreaux, wife of Hungerford's son Robert, 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 'best legend of the lives of the saints' to his daughter-in-law, Margaret, and a cup which John of Gaunt had used to John, viscount Beaumont.
Hungerford married first, Catherine, daughter of Thomas Peverell; and secondly, Alianore, or Eleanor, countess of Arundel, daughter of Sir John Berkeley, who survived him. By the latter he had no issue. By his first wife he was father of three sons, Walter, Robert, and Edmund. Walter was made a prisoner of war in France in 1425, was ransomed by his father for three thousand marks, was in the retinue of the Duke of Bedford in France in 1435, and died without issue. Edmund was knighted by Henry VI after the battle of Verneuil on Whit-Sunday 1426 (Metcalfe, Book of Knights, p. 1), married Margaret, daughter and coheiress of Edward Burnell, and by her had two sons, Thomas, ancestor of the Hungerfords of Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, of the Hungerfords of Windrush, Oxfordshire, and the Hungerfords of Black Bourton, Oxfordshire; and Edward, ancestor of the Hungerfords of Cadenham, Wiltshire.
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Baron Walter - served as speaker of the House of Commons, 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. An executor of Henry V.’s will and a member of the council under Henry VI., Hungerford became a baron in 1426, and he was lord treasurer from 1426 to 1431. Remains of his benefactions still exist at Heytesbury, long the principal residence of the family.
- Sir Walter Hungerford, K.G., was Lord Treasurer of England. He served with Henry V in France and was at Agincourt. According to Asimov, it was he rather than Westmoreland who who wished for 10,000 more men on the eve of the Battle. He was taken prisoner at the Siege of Orleans, and is referred to in Henry V, Act I, Scene i, line 145-6.
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