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Thomas Hungerford (speaker)

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Effigies of Sir Thomas de Hungerford (1330-1398) and his second wife Joan Hussey (d. 1412), in the Chapel of St Anne (north transept chapel) of St Leonard's Chapel, Farleigh Hungerford Castle
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Hungerford died at Farleigh on 3 December 1397, and was buried in the Chapel of St Anne (north transept chapel) of St Leonard's Chapel, Farleigh Hungerford Castle, where his
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Secondly to Joan Hussey (d. 1 March 1412), heiress of Sir Edmund Hussey of Holbrook, by whom he had one surviving son and heir, three other sons having predeceased him:
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in 1378, 1382, 1388, and 1390. He was returned for both constituencies in 1384 and January 1389/90. He was knighted in February 1375. He was closely associated with
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History of Parliament HUNGERFORD, Sir Thomas (d.1397), of Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset and Heytesbury, Wilts
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with effigies of himself and his wife survive. His portrait was made in a stained-glass window, engraved in
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in Wiltshire. The Hungerford family had been seated in Wiltshire since at least the twelfth century.
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of 1376. In 1380 Hungerford was appointed Forester of Selwood. In 1369 he purchased from
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for Wiltshire in 1316 and a commissioner to inquire into the possessions of the
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Firstly to Eleanor Strug, daughter and heiress of Sir John Strug of Heytesbury;
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Owing to Gaunt's influence, he was chosen in January 1376/7, in the last of
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d'Ewes, Simonds (1682). "Journal of the House of Commons: January 1559".
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The Journals of All the Parliaments During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
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after their attainder in 1328, and gave much land to the hospital at
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in Somerset, was the first person to be recorded in the rolls of the
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him, but he obtained a pardon and also a confirmation of his
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and acted for some time as steward of Gaunt's household.
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GouGrH, Sepulchral Monuments, i. 107, plate xxxviii;
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preceded him in the post, without the title, in the
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in memory of his first wife, Joan, to the church of
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Canon Jackson's Guide to Farleigh-Hungerford, 1853.
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Thomas de Hungerford


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Farleigh Castle
Parliament of England
Speaker
House of Commons of England
Heytesbury
Member of Parliament
Wiltshire
Cherhill
Member of Parliament
Despensers
Calne
Hungerford
Sheriff of Wiltshire
Member of Parliament
Wiltshire
Member of Parliament
Somerset
John of Gaunt
Edward III's
Bad Parliament
Speaker of the House of Commons
Peter de la Mare
Good Parliament
Walter Pavely

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