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Walter de Hungerford
- Preferred Name: Walter de Hungerford[1] [2] [3]
- Gender: M
- Burial: 1365 in Gloucestershire, England at LATI: N1.8842 LONG: E2.1446 with note: Really? He was buried 11 years after he died!!!!????
- Surname+meaning: with note: Description: from Hungerford in Berkshire, England
According to local history, the town Hungerford derives its name from 'Hingwar's ford'. Hingwar was a 14th century Danish chieftain who drowned while crossing a ford there.
- Occupation: Member of Parliament1332, 1334, 1336 in England with note: parliamentary records
- Christening: ABT 1314 in England
- Heraldry: with note: Description: Coat of Arms
Walter Hungerford adopted the arms of his wife Elizabeth Fitzjohn' s family. Earliest known illustration in Thomas Jenyns' Ordinary of Arms, c1398.
- Birth: 1308 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England at LATI: N1.1778 LONG: E2.0857 with note: GEDCOM data
- Occupation: bailiffBET 1330 AND 1334 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England at LATI: N1.0687 LONG: E1.794 with note: medieval records
- Death: 1354 in Somerset, England at LATI: N1.1197 LONG: E2.9 with note: GEDCOM data
- Occupation: coroner1341 in Wiltshire, England at LATI: N1.3923 LONG: E2.0435 with note: medieval records
- FSID: GHJH-KRD
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
MAR: Mentioned in biography of his son Thomas Hungerford in J. S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe, The House of Commons 1386-1421, The History of Parliament Series, vol. 3 (Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1993), 443.
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Walter Hungerford, born 1286, was the younger brother of Sir Robert Hungerford, who lived at Hungerford, and who founded the Chantry of Holy Trinity. Robert had no children, and when he died in 1352 a
Preferred Parents:
Father: Walter de Hungerford III, b. 1260 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England d. 1308 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England
Mother: III de Hungerford, b. ABT 1280 in England
Family 1: Elizabeth FitzJohn, b. 1312 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England d. 1355 in Somerset, England
- Thomas de Hungerford, b. 1330 in Heytsbury, Wiltshire, England d. 3 DEC 1397 in Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England
Sources:
- Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current
Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/9289/records/31134056;
- Title: Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22
Author: Stephen, Sir Leslie, ed.; London, England: Oxford University Press; Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22; Volume: Vol 10; Page: 257
Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/1981/records/10030994;
- Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Author: Source number: 4151.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: CCC
Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/7836/records/622543;
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