General Notes

Sir Walter Hungerford, KG(1421), 1st Lord (Baron) Hungerford, so created by writ 7 Jan 1425/6; born c22 June 1378; knighted 1399, MP: Wilts 1400, 1404, 1407, 1413 and 1414 and Somerset 1409, Speaker of House of Commons 1414, Sheriff of Wilts 1406 and Somerset and Dorset 1414; envoy to the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund 1414 and subsequently Sigismund's Master of the Household when the latter visited England 1416; served in Hundred Years War, allegedly won a duel against Charles VI of France before Calais 1401, fought at Agincourt 1415 (the spoils arising from which he allegedly used to restore Farleigh Castle, though he may also have raised the money from ransoming the eight distinguished Frenchmen he took prisoner after the Agincourt Campaign), commanded naval force which in 1416 relieved Harfleur (captured by Henry V the previous year in the campaign that culminated in Agincourt) from a French blockade, envoy to negotiate with Archbishop of Cologne 1417 and present at successful Siege of Rouen by Henry V 1418; Steward of the Household to Henry's V and VI, Constable of Windsor Castle 1417, Member of Council of Regency 1422, Lord High Treasurer 1426-1432; married 1st by 18 Sep 1402 Katherine (died on or after 14 June 1426), younger daughter and coheir of Thomas Peverell, of Cornwall; married 2nd by 8 May 1439 Eleanor (died 1 Aug 1455), daughter of Sir John Berkeley, of Beverstone, Glos, and widow of (a) 13th/6th Earl of Arundel and (b) Sir Richard Poynings, and died without having had further issue 9 Aug 1449.  [Burke's Peerage]