Thomas Hungerford , 1st Speaker of House, Sir 
Thomas was born about 1330 in of Farleigh & Wellow, Somerset, England. Thomas' father was Walter de Hungerford , MP, Sir and his mother was Elizabeth FitzJohn. His paternal grandfather was Walter de Hungerford , Sir; his maternal grandfather was Adam FitzJohn , Sir. He was an only child. He died on December 3rd, 1397 in Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Frome, Somerset, England.General Notes
Thomas (Sir), of Farleigh Montford (later Farleigh Hungerford) and Wellow, Somerset and Heytesbury, Wilts; MP: Wilts 1357, 1360, 1362, Jan 1376/7, 1380, 1383, 1386 and Jan 1392/3, Somerset 1378, 1382, 1388 and 1390, Wilts and Somerset 1384 and Jan 1389/90, knighted by 1377, 1st formally constituted Speaker of the House of Commons 1377, Chief Steward to John of Gaunt (on of Edward III), Forester of Selwood 1380, Constable of Grosmount and Monmouth Castles; married 1st Eleanor, daughter and heiress of Sir John Strug, of Heytesbury; married 2nd, as her 2nd husband, Joan (died 21 March 1411/2), daughter and coheir of Sir Edmund Hussey, of Holbrook, Somerset, and widow of John Whyton, and died 3 Dec 1397. [Burke's Peerage]
Built Farleigh Castle.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.< 1160 in Hungerford, Berkshire, England
- b.1186 in Hungerford, Berkshire, England
- b.1230 in Hungerford, Berkshire, England
- b.1280 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England d.> 1308
- b.1230 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.1255 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.1308 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England d.1359 in Farleigh, Somerset, England
- b.~ 1330 in of Farleigh & Wellow, Somerset, England d.03 Dec 1397 in Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Frome, Somerset, England
- b.1286 in Cherhill, Wiltshire, England
- b.1312 in Cherhill, Wiltshire, England
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Thomas and Joan were married in a religious ceremony after 1376 in 2nd husband 2nd wife. They had a son and a daughter, named Walter 1st Baron de and Grace.
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Children
Walter 1st Baron de Hungerford , KG, Sir
Walter 1st Baron de was born on June 22nd, 1378 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England. He died at the age of 71 on August 9th, 1449 in Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, England.
Thomas and Eleanor daughter of Sir John were married in a religious ceremony in 1st wife.
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