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- LUCY HUNGERFORD (1560-1598)
Lucy Hungerford was the daughter of Sir Walter Hungerford of Farleigh Castle, Somersetshire (c.1526-1596) and Anne Dormer (1525-1603). When she was ten, her father sued her mother for divorce, claiming she had committed adultery with a neighbor and tried to poison him. Lady Hungerford was separated from her children and eventually went into exile in Flanders with other English Catholics. In about 1584, Lucy married John St. John of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire (c.1552-1594). They had two sons, Walter (d.1597) and John (1585-1648) and six daughters, the youngest of whom was Lucy. After St. John died, his widow married her cousin, Sir Arthur Hungerford of Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire (1567-1627). Their children were Edward (1596-1648), Anne, and Bridget. Portraits: by an unknown artist c.1590; St. John Polyptych in St. Mary's Church (1615).
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Lucy Hungerford married Sir John St John in about 1584 and there was never any suggestion that their marriage was anything other than harmonious.
Their only surviving son Sir John St John, 1st Baronet, went to great pains to revere his ancestry, and especially the memory of his parents in the magnificent polyptych in St. Mary’s Church, Lydiard Tregoze.
The portrait is an idealized view of the St John family, gathered around their devout parents. When the painting was completed in 1615 Sir John had been dead for 21 years and Lucy for more than fifteen.
A second portrait of Lucy painted in c1590 when she was about thirty, hangs above the Drawing Room doors in Lydiard House in which she appears as the very model of respectability in her richly embroidered but sombre dress accessorized with some impressive pieces of jewellery. Perhaps she felt the spectre of those riotous ancestors at her shoulder. In 2002 Janet Backhouse, former Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Museum Library, examined the portrait anew and drew attention to the girdle book hanging from Lucy’s waist. Particularly popular in the 16th century, the girdle book contained either a religious text or collection of prayers, further emphasizing Lucy’s impeccable character.
Following Sir John’s death in 1594, Lucy married a distant cousin Sir Anthony Hungerford and gave birth to three more children, bringing her combined family up to a count of thirteen.
Two of her six St John daughters married into the most prestigious families of the day, the Villiers and the Apsleys while Bridget Hungerford married Sir Alexander Cheeke the King’s Proctor.
Her eldest son Sir John St John, 1st Baronet, supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil Wars in which three of his sons were killed. Sir Edward Hungerford, her son by her second marriage was on the opposing side and commanded the local forces of Wiltshire for the Parliamentarians in 1642-45.
- Lucy Hungerford married Sir John St John in about 1584 and there was never any suggestion that their marriage was anything other than harmonious.
Their only surviving son Sir John St John, 1st Baronet, went to great pains to revere his ancestry, and especially the memory of his parents in the magnificent polyptych in St. Mary’s Church, Lydiard Tregoze.
The portrait is an idealized view of the St John family, gathered around their devout parents. When the painting was completed in 1615 Sir John had been dead for 21 years and Lucy for more than fifteen.
A second portrait of Lucy painted in c1590 when she was about thirty, hangs above the Drawing Room doors in Lydiard House in which she appears as the very model of respectability in her richly embroidered but sombre dress accessorized with some impressive pieces of jewellery. Perhaps she felt the spectre of those riotous ancestors at her shoulder. In 2002 Janet Backhouse, former Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Museum Library, examined the portrait anew and drew attention to the girdle book hanging from Lucy’s waist. Particularly popular in the 16th century, the girdle book contained either a religious text or collection of prayers, further emphasizing Lucy’s impeccable character.
Following Sir John’s death in 1594, Lucy married a distant cousin Sir Anthony Hungerford and gave birth to three more children, bringing her combined family up to a count of thirteen.
Two of her six St John daughters married into the most prestigious families of the day, the Villiers and the Apsleys while Bridget Hungerford married Sir Alexander Cheeke the King’s Proctor.
Her eldest son Sir John St John, 1st Baronet, supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil Wars in which three of his sons were killed. Sir Edward Hungerford, her son by her second marriage was on the opposing side and commanded the local forces of Wiltshire for the Parliamentarians in 1642-45.
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Dutton, Berrett & Hungerford Twigs
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