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On 8 June 1536, he was summoned to parliament as Lord Hungerford of Heytesbury. [ 1 ] In 1540, he, together with his chaplain, a Wiltshire clergyman named William Bird, Rector of Fittleton and Vicar of Bradford , who was suspected of sympathising with the pilgrims of grace of the north of England , was attainted by act of Parliament ( 32 Hen. 8 .
The crest is: Within a crest coronet azure a Peverell garb or between two Hungerford sickles argent. Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford (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.
In July 1540, Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury, was charged with treason for harbouring a known member of the Pilgrimage of Grace movement. He was also accused of buggery, as he was suspected of raping his own daughter. Hungerford was beheaded at Tower Hill, [7] on 28 July 1540, the same day as Thomas Cromwell. [7]
[9] [8] Sir Walter Hungerford died in December 1596 in Farleigh Hungerford Somerset, and was succeeded by his half brother, who was sued by both Lady Anne Hungerford and Margery Bright, for dower. Lady Hungerford was granted [a] 'generous' dower', [8] and died at Louvain in 1603. [14] It is unclear if Bright received a dower.
Arms of Hungerford: Sable, two bars argent in chief three plates Chest tomb with inscribed ledger stone of Sir Walter Hungerford (died December 1596) and of his son Edward Hungerford (d. 1585), Farleigh Hungerford Castle Chapel, displaying arms of Heytesbury (Per pale indented gules and vert, a chevron or) quartering FitzJohn (Sable, two bars argent in chief two plates), which arms were later ...
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
Walter Hungerford: Executed for misprison of treason and buggery due to his support for Cromwell. Thomas Abel: 30 July 1540 Giles Heron: August 1540 Executed for treason at Tower Hill. Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury: 27 May 1541 Executed after being imprisoned in the Tower of London for two years. Sir John Neville: 15 June 1541
All Saints' Church in North Moreton in 2008. Anne Gunter was baptised in 1584 in Hungerford.She was the fifth and youngest child of Anne and Brian Gunter. [1] Her father was the lay rector at North Moreton who fatally injured two yeoman named John and Richard Gregory during a football match in May 1598. [2]