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Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford KG (1378 – 9 August 1449) was an English knight and landowner, from 1400 to 1414 a Member of the House of Commons, of which he became Speaker, then was an Admiral and peer.
Walter Hungerford was born in 1503 at Heytesbury, Wiltshire, the only child of Sir Edward Hungerford (died 1522) of Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, and his first wife, Jane Zouche, daughter of John, Lord Zouche of Harringworth (1459–1526).
Arms of Hungerford: Sable, two bars argent in chief three plates Baron Hungerford is a title in the Peerage of England.It was created on 7 January 1426 for Walter Hungerford, who was summoned to parliament, had been Member of Parliament, Speaker of the House and invested as Knight of the Order of the Garter before and was made Lord High Treasurer one year before he became a peer.
Elizabeth Hussey, Baroness Hungerford (c. 1510 – 1554) was an English noblewoman who was allegedly imprisoned by her first husband for four years. She was married to Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury until his execution, then to Sir Robert Throckmorton of Coughton.
Walter Hungerford may refer to several Englishmen: Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford (1378–1449), Knight of the Garter, nobleman and Speaker of the House of Commons Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury (1503–1540), the first person in England to be executed under the Buggery Act 1533
In about 1426 Courtenay married Elizabeth Hungerford, daughter of Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford, Speaker of the House of Commons, Steward of the Household to Kings Henry V and Henry VI, and Lord High Treasurer. They had seven sons and four daughters: [10]
Robert Hungerford, 3rd Baron Hungerford; Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford; Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon; Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon;
Walter Hungerford was the only son of Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury, and his first wife, Susan Danvers, daughter of Sir John Danvers of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, by the heiress Anne Stradling. [2] [3] Hungerford succeeded his father on 28 July 1540. [4]