The Baynard family - Lackham Countryside Centre

The Baynards
Walter Hungerford 158 , who was the brother of Sir Thomas 159
(beheaded in Salisbury 1469). [The other witness was one Thomas
Bulstrode, who was related to the Baynards on Elizabeth’s side of
the family, being related to the Ludlow’s by marriage. He was also
related to Walter Hungerford, Walter’s wife Jane was a Bulstrode,
the relationship between Thomas and Jane is unclear.]
Joan the elder, William Temys’ widow later married a Tyre who died
in 1533/4. She must have been one of the last of the family to be
buried in the Abbey Church, she desired that
158
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (1996) vol X p157 – henceforth
DNB
Walter Hungerford was MP for Wiltshire in 1477 and, as a partisan in the
earlier days of the House of Lancaster, obtained a general pardon from Richard
III on his accession in 1483. He was arrested by Richard III on the landing of
the Earl of Richmond in 1485 but escaped from custody and joined Richmond's
army. At the Battle of Bosworth he slew, in hand to hand combat, Sir Robert
Brackenbury, lieutenant of the Tower under whose command he had previously
served, and was knighted by Henry VII on the battlefield. Farleigh Castle and
several other forfeited family estates, though not the family honours, were
restored to him and he was made a member of the Privy Council.
In February 1487 he was sent on a diplomatic mission to Rome and in 1497 he
assisted in quelling the rebellion of Perkin Warbeck. He was included in the
retinue of Henry VII's queen to attend the wedding of the Princess Margaret to
the King of Scotland. He was a member of Henry VIII's Privy Council until his
death in 1516. He was buried at Farleigh. His wife Jane was the daughter of
William Bulstrode. See also Jackson, JEJ (1855) Hungerford family in WANHS
library Devizes for many other details of his life
159 DNB ibid
Sir Thomas Hungerford was the eldest son of Robert Hungerford, Baron Moleyn
and third Baron Hungerford (1431-1464) Lived chiefly at Rowden. After giving
some support to Edward IV and the Yorkists (Wars of the Roses) he joined in
Warwick’s conspiracy to restore Henry VI in 1469, was attainted, and executed
at Salisbury. He was buried in the chapel at Farleigh Castle.
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