1378 - 1449 (71 years)
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Name |
Walter de Hungerford |
Born |
22 Jun 1378 [2, 5] |
Land/House |
1399 [1] |
- 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.
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Military |
Abt 1402 [1] |
- He was engaged in the wars in France. For his expenses in those wars, and especially at Calais, were he acquired great honor by encountering a knight of France, he received a further grant of 100 marks per annum payable out of the town and castle of Marlborough in Wiltshire.
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Offices Held |
1405 [1, 2, 8] |
- He was made the Sheriff of Wiltshire.
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Land/House |
Abt 1412 [2] |
- In the 13th year of the reign of Henry IV, upon the death of his mother, he had livery of the manors of Heytesbury and Teafount-Ewyas, in Wiltshire; and Farle-Mountfort in Somersetshire.
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Offices Held |
1414 [5] |
- He was speaker of the House of Commons.
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Offices Held |
Oct 1414 [2] |
- He was one of the ambassadors nominated to treat for a league with the Emperor Sigismund and was present at the Council of Constance.
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Military |
25 Oct 1415 [2, 5, 6] |
- He fought at the Battle of Agincourt.
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Battle of Agincourt
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Offices Held |
Abt 1416 [1, 2] |
- In the 4th year of the reign of Henry V, he was made the admiral of the fleet under John, Duke of Bedford, and he spent the next two years engaged in the War in France. During the later part of this time, he was the Steward of the King's household. He was granted the Barony of Homet in Normandy for his service at the siege of Roan. In the 9th year of Henry V's reign, he recieved the Castle of Neville and the territory of Breant in Normandy.
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Offices Held |
May 1416 [2, 6] |
- He was one of the ambassadors nominated to treat with the Archbishop of Cologne.
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Military |
Aug 1416 [2, 6, 8] |
- He commanded the naval expedition to Harfleur.
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Offices Held |
1 Nov 1417 [2, 6] |
- He was appointed the Constable of Windsor Castle.
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Knighted |
3 May 1421 [2, 4, 6] |
- He was installed as a Knight of the Garter.
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Estate Administered |
1422 [1] |
- He was one of the executors of the will of Henry V.
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Offices Held |
From 7 Jan 1425 to 2 Jan 1448 [6] |
- He was a Member of Parliament.
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Offices Held |
From 1426 to 1432 [1, 6, 7] |
- He was appointed the Lord Treasurer of England.
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Offices Held |
1431 |
Paris, Île-de-France, France [2] |
- He was carver at the coronation of Henry VI in Paris.
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Will |
1 Jul 1449 [1, 2, 3] |
- He made his will. In it he styled himself Lord of Hungerford, Heytesbury, and Homet, which last title he acquired by a grant of the Barony of Homet for his services in the French Wars.
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Died |
9 Aug 1449 [2, 3, 5] |
Web References |
2019 |
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Buried |
Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England [1] |
- William Hamilton Rogers (1877) wrote as follows concerning the monument: "He was buried with his wife in the Hungerford Chapel in the nave, a beautiful structure composed chiefly of iron and which has since been removed to the choir. Their tombs, joined together and despoiled of their brass effigies, remain in the nave. The matrices exhibit the proportions of a knight on the one and of a lady on the other, both stones were powdered over with sickles and a ledger line outside all. The whole has now disappeared, except the stones in which the brasses were set. Forty shields of arms, according to Hutchins (who minutely describes these chapels previous to their removal) were set round outside exhibiting the various alliances of the family. Among these were Hungerford impaling Strange and Mohun, Peverell, Courtenay, St John, Mules, etc." [8]
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Tombs of Sir Walter Hungerford and his wife, Katherine Peverell
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Person ID |
I7857 |
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Last Modified |
2 Jun 2020 |
Family 1 |
Katherine Peverell, c. 1394, Park Hamitilly, Penhale, Cornwall, England , bur. Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England [1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7] |
Married |
18 Sep 1402 [2, 5, 6] |
Age at Marriage |
He was 24 years - She was 8 years |
Children |
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Last Modified |
11 Dec 2019 |
Family ID |
F5523 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Event Map |
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 | Offices Held - 1431 - Paris, Île-de-France, France |
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 | Buried - - Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England |
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Pin Legend |
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Sources |
- [S11] Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire , (London: Harrision, 1866), Secondary Source.
- [S1444] Cokayne, George E. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the UK, Extant, Extinct or Dormant volume V, (London: The St. Catherine Press, 1926), Secondary Source.
- [S1703] Hoare, Richard Colt. Hungerfordiana: or Memoirs of the Family of Hungerford, (unknown place: Richard C. Hoare, 1823), Secondary Source.
- [S1704] Johnson, Samuel W. History and Genealogy of the Johnson Family, from Charlemagne to the Present Time, (Denver, Colorado: Big Mountain Press, 1956), Secondary Source.
- [S1569] Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage web site, (Wellington, New Zealand: http://www.thepeerage.com/index.htm, 2019), Tertiary Source.
- [S977] Rixford, Elizabeth Mary Leach. Families Directly Descended from All the Royal Families in Europe (495-1932) and Mayflower Descendants, (Burlington, Vermont: Free Press Printing Co., 1932), Secondary Source.
- [S59] Weis, Frederick Lewis. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 Fifth Edition, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982), Secondary Source.
- [S304] Wikipedia, Secondary Source.
Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford
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