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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.
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 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, 1st Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury (1540) – executed at Tower Hill by order of Henry VIII of England for high treason and buggery [24] Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane – Lord Deputy of Ireland (1541) – executed at Tower Hill by order of Henry VIII of England for High Treason after allowing the escape of his nephew ...
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]
Walter Hooper: trustee and literary advisor of the estate of C. S. Lewis [185] James Hope-Scott: English lawyer connected to the Oxford Movement [186] Gerard Manley Hopkins: English poet and Catholic priest [187] Deal Hudson: Philosopher, publisher, political activist; converted from Southern Baptist to Catholicism at age 34. [188]
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]