Sir Walter de Hungerford, KG, Lord Hungerford

Other Events and Attributes:

• Land/House: 1399; In consideration of his eminent services obtained, upon the accession of King Henry IV in 1399, a grant of £100 per annum to be received out of the lands of Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk.
• Military: Abt 1402; He was engaged in the wars in France about 1402. 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.
• Offices Held: 1405; In 1405 he was made the Sheriff of Wiltshire.
• Land/House: Abt 1412; In the 13th year of the reign of Henry IV [about 1412], upon the death of his mother, he had livery of the manors of Heytesbury and Teafount-Ewyas, in Wiltshire; and Farle-Mountfort in Somersetshire.
• Offices Held: 1414; He was speaker of the House of Commons in 1414.
• Offices Held: Oct 1414; He was one of the ambassadors nominated to treat for a league with the Emperor Sigismund and was present at the Council of Constance in October 1414.
• Military: 25 Oct 1415; On 25 October 1415 he fought at the Battle of Agincourt.
• Offices Held: Abt 1416; In the 4th year of the reign of Henry V [about 1416], 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 received the Castle of Neville and the territory of Breant in Normandy.
• Offices Held: May 1416; He was one of the ambassadors nominated to treat with the Archbishop of Cologne in May 1416.
• Military: Aug 1416; In August 1416 he commanded the naval expedition to Harfleur, France.
• Offices Held: 1 Nov 1417; On 1 November 1417 he was appointed the Constable of Windsor Castle.
• Knighted: 3 May 1421; On 3 May 1421 he was installed as a Knight of the Garter.
• Estate Admin: 1422; He was one of the executors of the will of Henry V in 1422.
• Offices Held: From 7 Jan 1425 to 2 Jan 1448; He was a Member of Parliament from 7 January 1425 to 2 January 1448.
• Offices Held: From 1426 to 1432; He was the Lord Treasurer of England from 1426 to 1432.
• Offices Held: 1431, Paris, Île-de-France, France; He was carver at the coronation of Henry VI in Paris in 1431.
• Will: 1 Jul 1449; He made his will 1 July 1449. 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.
• Last Full Review: 2 Jun 2020

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Walter married Katherine Peverell on 18 Sep 1402. Katherine (daughter of Thomas Peverell and Margaret Courtenay) was christened in 1394 in Park Hamitilly, Penhale, Cornwall, England; was buried in Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Walter de Hungerford
2. Robert de Hungerford
3. Edmund de Hungerford
4. Elizabeth Hungerford died on 14 Dec 1476.
5. Margaret de Hungerford

Walter married Eleanor Berkeley, Countess of Arundel on 8 May 1439. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Joan Hussey in 1376 in England. Joan (daughter of Edmund Hussey and Joan) died on 21 Mar 1411 in Farley Hungerford, Somersetshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Elizabeth Fitzjohn. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edmund married Joan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]