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Hungerford, Walter (1378 - 1449)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1378-06-22
Death Date: 1449-08-04

Notes

Obtained wardships of Margery, granddaughter and coheir of Hugh, 3rd Baron Burnell 8 Nov. 1416; Sir Philip Courtenay (1414--1463), son of Sir John Courtenay of Powderham, Devon; and Sir Walter Rodney (1410--1466/7), son and heir of John Rodney (d. 1417) of Rodney Stoke, Somerset. With Henry V on campaign in France, 1417--1422

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Type: marriage
    Union began: 1399
    Union ended: n.d.
  2. Berkeley, Eleanor ( - 1455)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1439-5-8
    Union ended: n.d.

Offspring

  1. Mother unknown
    Female offspring: Hungerford, Elizabeth ( - )
  2. Mother unknown

Primary Title

  • 1st Baron Hungerford

Titles

  • 1st Baron Hungerford
    Assumed: 1425/6-01-07 (date summoned to parliament by this title)
    Vacated: 1449-08-04
  • Knight of the Bath
    Assumed: 1399-10-12
    Vacated: 1449-08-09
  • Knight of the Garter
    Assumed: 1421-05-03 (date installed)
    Vacated: 1449-08-09

General Lands Note

Came of age 1399; inherited at least 9 manors from father; controlled over 20 manors in Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire after securing marriage contract between grandson Robert and Eleanor, granddaughter and heir of Sir William Moleyn

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Keeper, Somerset 1395 1449 -08 -9 Hereditary office
Commissioner of Array, Wiltshire 1399
Constable, Wiltshire 1399 -11 -2 1403
JP, Wiltshire 1401
MP, Wiltshire 1401
Commissioner of Array, Wiltshire 1403
JP, Wiltshire 1403 1405
MP, Wiltshire 1404 -10
Sheriff, Wiltshire 1405 -11 -22 1406 -11 -5
Chamberlain, Princess Philippa's Household, England 1406 -7 -21 1406 -10 -26 Appointed to accompany the Princess (Henry IV's daughter) to Denmark for her marriage to Eric IX; Hungerford returned to England by later Dec. 1406
MP, Wiltshire 1407
JP, Somerset 1408 1410
JP, Wiltshire 1408
MP, Somerset 1410
MP, Wiltshire 1411
JP, Wiltshire 1411/12 1415
JP, Somerset 1412/13 1414
Chief Steward, Duchy of Lancaster, Northern Parts 1413 -4 -5 1437 -05 -12 Office purview comprised Duchy lands S of Trent and in Wales; after 1416, the office included JP commissions for all the counties in this office's purview
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Monmouthshire 1413
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Carmarthenshire 1413
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Carmarthenshire 1413 Possible identification for 'Kerkennyn'
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Glamorgan 1413
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1413
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Brecknockshire 1413
MP, Wiltshire 1413 -5
Sheriff, Dorset 1413 -11 -6 1414 -11 -10
Sheriff, Somerset 1413 -11 -6 1414 -11 -10
JP, Norfolk 1414
MP, Wiltshire 1414 -4
Speaker, House of Commons, England 1414 -4
JP, Somerset 1416 1417
JP, Wiltshire 1416/17
Member, King's Council, England 1416/17 -2 1422 -08
Constable, Berkshire 1417 -11 -1 1438 -07 -21 For life; but office given to Edmund Beaufort, Earl of Dorset
JP, Suffolk 1417
JP, Essex 1417
JP, Surrey 1417
JP, Dorset 1417
JP, Cambridgeshire 1417
JP, Berkshire 1417
Steward of the Household, England 1417 -7 -21 1424 -09 -29
JP, Bedfordshire 1417/18
JP, Huntingdonshire 1417/18
JP, Kent 1417/18
Capt., France 1418 -8 -11 1431
JP, Oxfordshire 1418
JP, Devon 1418
JP, Norfolk 1418
JP, Buckinghamshire 1418/19
JP, Cambridgeshire 1418/19 1420
JP, Dorset 1418/19
JP, Sussex 1418/19
JP, Gloucestershire 1419
JP, Herefordshire 1419
JP, Hertfordshire 1419
JP, Wiltshire 1419
JP, Essex 1419
JP, Suffolk 1419
JP, Somerset 1419
JP, Oxfordshire 1419/20
JP, Kent 1420
JP, Devon 1420
JP, Herefordshire 1421/2 1423
JP, Oxfordshire 1421/2 1424
JP, Berkshire 1421/2 1424
JP, Kent 1421/2 1424
JP, Southampton 1421/2
JP, Huntingdonshire 1421/2 1424
JP, Sussex 1421/2 1423
JP, Somerset 1421/2 1424
JP, Buckinghamshire 1421/2 1424
JP, Wiltshire 1421/2 1425
JP, Devon 1421/2 1424
JP, Cambridgeshire 1421/2 1425
JP, Bedfordshire 1421/2 1423
JP, Norfolk 1421/2 1424
JP, Hertfordshire 1421/2 1424
JP, Essex 1421/2 1424
JP, Suffolk 1421/2 1424
JP, Gloucestershire 1421/2 1424
JP, Dorset 1421/2 1423
JP, Surrey 1421/2 1424
Capt., France 1422 -5
Joint Guardian of Henry VI and Member, Council of Regency, England 1422 -11 1437 -11
JP, Hampshire 1423
JP, Nottinghamshire 1424
JP, Cornwall 1424
Steward of the Household, England 1424 -4 -24 1425/6 -03 -16
Chamberlain, Duchy of Lancaster 1424/5 -2 -12 1443/4 -02
Treasurer of the Exchequer, England 1424/5 -3 -16 1431/2 -02 -26
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1426/7
JP, Hertfordshire 1427
JP, Somerset 1427
JP, Wiltshire 1427 1427/8
JP, Devon 1427
JP, Surrey 1427
JP, Essex 1427
JP, Kent 1427/8 1429
JP, Huntingdonshire 1428 1429
JP, Somerset 1428/9 1431
JP, Hertfordshire 1428/9
JP, Cambridgeshire 1428/9
JP, Norfolk 1429
JP, Essex 1429
JP, Cornwall 1431 1433
JP, Essex 1431 1435
JP, Devon 1431
JP, Surrey 1431 1432
JP, Buckinghamshire 1431 1434
JP, Suffolk 1432 1434
JP, Wiltshire 1432 1433
JP, Norfolk 1432
JP, Oxfordshire 1432
JP, Gloucestershire 1432 1433
JP, Somerset 1433
Commissioner of Musters, Kent 1435
JP, Devon 1435
JP, Gloucestershire 1435
JP, Somerset 1435
JP, Berkshire 1435 1437
JP, Oxfordshire 1435 1438
Commissioner of Array, Wiltshire 1435/6
Commissioner of Array, Somerset 1435/6
JP, Cornwall 1435/6
JP, Gloucestershire 1437 1438
JP, Buckinghamshire 1437
Member, King's Council, England 1437 -11 1449 -08 -9
JP, Devon 1438
JP, Wiltshire 1438
JP, Berkshire 1438/9
JP, Cornwall 1439
JP, Somerset 1439 1444
JP, Wiltshire 1440 1440/1
JP, Devon 1440
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Essex 1441
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Kent 1441
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, London 1441
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Middlesex 1441
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Surrey 1441
JP, Cornwall 1441 1443
JP, Oxfordshire 1442 1443
JP, Berkshire 1442/3 1444
JP, Devon 1443 1444
JP, Wiltshire 1443
JP, Cornwall 1444/5
JP, Oxfordshire 1446 1447
JP, Wiltshire 1446/7
JP, Somerset 1446/7 1448
JP, Devon 1447 1448
JP, Berkshire 1448 1449
JP, Wiltshire 1451

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Somerset
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1397
    Divested: 1449-08
    Patrimony
  • Heytesbury Manor, Wiltshire
    Acquired: 1411/12
    Divested: 1449-08
    Patrimony (acquired after mother's death)

Lands

  • Berkshire: Hungerford Borough & Manor
    Acquired: 1446
    Granted
  • (city-county) in Gloucestershire
    Acquired: 1421-05
    Properties acquired via son's marriage
  • Cornwall
    Acquired: 1439
    4 manors via 1st wife
  • Devon
    Acquired: 1439
    Acquired 6 manors
  • Devon: Dartmoor royal lands, Lydford Borough & Manor, Teigncombe Manor
    Acquired: 1425-05
    Divested: 1432
    Leased for 7 years with son-in-law Sir Philip Courtenay
  • Devon: Plymtree & Sutton Lacy Manors
    Acquired: 1422
    Acquired a half-share in these manors via 1st wife
  • Dorset
    Acquired: 1439
    Acquired 13 manors via 2nd marriage
  • Essex: Borham, East & West Ham, Latchingdon, Stanstede Montfichet, Walkfare, Waltham Powers Manors
    Acquired: 1421-05
    Qcquired via son's marriage
  • France: Hommet Barony & Castle, Normandy
    Acquired: 1418-12
    Granted
  • Gloucestershire
    Acquired: 1439
    Acquired 5 manors via 2nd wife
  • Gloucestershire: Down Ampney Manor
    Acquired: 1397
    Divested: 1421-05
    Patrimony; settled on son upon marriage
  • Gloucestershire: Little Rissington Manor
    Acquired: 1421-05
    Acquired via son's marriage
  • Hampshire
  • London (city-county): Inn near Charing Cross
  • Middlesex
  • Oxfordshire: Rollright Manor
    Acquired: 1421-05
    Acquired via son's marriage
  • Oxfordshire: Stoke Basset Manor
    Acquired: 1422
    Acquired via 1st wife
  • Somerset
    Acquired: 1439
    Acquired 2 manors via 2nd wife
  • Somerset: Bossington, Holbrook & Wellow Manors
    Acquired: 1411/12
    Patrimony (via mother & father); acquired after mother death
  • Somerset: Clopton, Halton, Mapperton, South Cadbury, Wooton Courtenay Manors
    Acquired: 1422
    Acquired via 1st wife
  • Somerset: Compton Dando Manor
    Acquired: 1421-05
    Acquired via son's marriage
  • Surrey: Hatchan & Rotherhithe Manors
    Acquired: 1421-05
    Acquired via son's marriage
  • Wiltshire
    Acquired: 1439
    Acquired 6 manors via 2nd wife
  • Wiltshire: Ashley, Codford St. Mary & Mildenhall Manors
    Acquired: 1397
    Patrimony
  • Wiltshire: Burton, Jenkingescourt, Stoke by Bedwin, Stratton St. Margaret Manors
    Divested: 1421-05
    Settled on son upon marriage
  • Wiltshire: Great & Little Sutton Manors
    Acquired: 1411/12
    Divested: 1449-08-09
    Patrimony
  • Wiltshire: Great Cheverell Manor
    Acquired: 1421-05
    Acquired via son's marriage
  • Wiltshire: Marlborough Castle & Manor
    Acquired: 1399-03-02
    Divested: 1449-08-09
    Granted for life
  • Wiltshire: Mere Hundred, Manor & Park
    Acquired: 1416
    Divested: 1449-08-09
    Granted for life
  • Wiltshire: Teffont Evias Manor
    Acquired: 1411/12
    Patrimony (via mother)
  • Worcestershire: Suckeley Manor
    Acquired: 1421-05
    Acquired via son's marriage

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Lord Hungerford's Minstrel/s
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Lord Hungerford's Minstrel/s
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Lord Hungerford's Minstrel/s
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Lord Hungerford's Minstrel/s
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Lord Hungerford's Minstrel/s
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Lord Hungerford's Minstrel/s
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Lord Treasurer's Minstrel/s
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Lord Treasurer's Minstrels

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Lord Hungerford's Minstrel/s Hungerford, Walter (1378 - 1449) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Hungerford's Minstrel/s Hungerford, Walter (1378 - 1449) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Hungerford's Minstrel/s Hungerford, Walter (1378 - 1449) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Hungerford's Minstrel/s Hungerford, Walter (1378 - 1449) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Hungerford's Minstrel/s Hungerford, Walter (1378 - 1449) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Hungerford's Minstrel/s Hungerford, Walter (1378 - 1449) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Treasurer's Minstrel/s Hungerford, Walter (1378 - 1449) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Treasurer's Minstrels Hungerford, Walter (1378 - 1449) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Farleigh Hungerford Castle Somerset Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry V [1413–22]. 2 vols. London: HMSO, 1910--11
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI [1422--61]. 6 vols. London: HMSO, 1901--11
  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Fryde, E.B., D.E. Greenway, S. Porter and I. Roy, eds. Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996
  • List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. London: HMSO, 1898
  • MacLean, John. The Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor in the County of Cornwall. 3 vols. London: Nichols & Sons, 1873-79
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • Roskell, J.S. 'Sir Walter Hungerford.'. 2 vols. London: The Hambledon P, 1981 Parliament and Politics in Late Medieval England Vol. 2: 95--135.
  • Roskell, J.S., Linda Clark and Carole Rawcliffe, eds. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1386–1421. 4 vols. Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing for The History of Parliament Trust, 1992