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See also:BARON See also:WALTER See also:HUNGERFORD HUNGERFORD (d. 1449)
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His See also:father, See also:Sir See also: After losing this See also:case he was taken prisoner in See also:France in 1452, not securing his See also:release until 1459 . During the See also:Wars of the See also:Roses he fought for Henry VI., with whom he fled to See also:Scotland; then he was attainted, was taken prisoner at the See also:battle of See also:Hexham, and was executed at See also:Newcastle in May 1464 . His eldest son, Sir Thomas Hungerford (d . 1469), was attainted and executed for attempting the restoration of Henry VI.; a younger son, Sir Walter Hungerford (d . 1516), who fought for Henry VII. at See also:Bosworth, received some of the estates forfeited by his ancestors . Sir Thomas, who had no sons, See also:left an only daughter See also:Mary (d. c . 1534) . When the attainders of her father and grandfather were reversed in 1485 this See also:lady became Baroness Hungerford and Baroness de Moleyns; she married into the See also:Hastings family and was the mother of See also:George Hastings, 1st See also:earl of See also:Huntingdon . Sir Walter Hungerford's son See also:Edward (d . 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 See also:Pilgrimage of See also:Grace; he was beheaded on the 28th of See also:July 1540, the same See also:day as his See also:patron Thomas See also:Cromwell . As his sons Sir Walter (1532–1596) and Sir Edward (d . 1607) both died without sons the estates passed to another See also:branch of the family . 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 . He was a member of both the See also:Short and Long Parliaments in 164o; during the See also:Civil See also:War he attached himself to the See also:parliamentary party, fighting at See also:Lansdowne and at Roundway Down . His See also:half-See also:brother Anthony (d . 1657) was also a member of both the Short and the Long Parliaments, but was on the royalist See also:side during the war . This Anthony's son and heir was Sir Edward Hungerford (1632–1711), the founder of Hungerford See also:market at Charing See also:Cross, See also:London . He was a member of parliament for over See also:forty years, but was very extravagant and was obliged to sell much of his See also:property; and little is known of the family after his See also:death . See Sir R . C . See also:Hoare, See also:History of See also:Modern Wiltshire (1822–1844) . |
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