Sir Thomas Hungerford^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

Est 1440 - 1469  (29 years)

• Name	Thomas Hungerford
  Prefix	Sir
  Birth	Est 1440	Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Burial	1469	Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England   [1]
  Death	18 Jan 1469	Bymerton, Salisbury, England   [2, 5]
  Person ID	I6736	DBH Twigs
  Last Modified	4 Jun 2026

  
  

  Father	Robert, Baron Moleyns and Third Baron Hungerford Lord Robert Hungerford, Knight,   b. 1431, Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England d. 18 May 1464, Newcastle upon Tyne, England (Age 33 years)
  Mother	Eleanor De Moleyns,   b. 11 Jun 1426, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England d. 1476 (Age 49 years)
  Marriage	5 Nov 1440  [2]
  Family ID	F2205	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lady Anne Percy,   b. Est 1440, Yorkshire, England d. 5 Jul 1522, Westminster, London, England (Age 82 years)  [2, 4]
  Marriage	16 Oct 1460  [2]
  Children	1. 5th Baroness Botreaux Mary Hungerford,   b. 1467, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d. Bef 10 Jul 1533, Leicester, Leicestershire, England (Age < 66 years)
  Family ID	F2225	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Dec 2025

  
  

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  		The Lady Tower at Farleigh Hungerford Elizabeth claimed to have been imprisoned in the tower by her husband, Walter. Media Date: 2009 Keywords: Picture
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• Notes

  Sir Thomas would have been the fourth Lord Hungerford but for his father's attainder. He secured a portion of his father's estates and lived in obscurity until 1468. He, with Henry Courtenay, was seized and imprisoned in Salisbury. They were charged before Richard of Gloucester, then only 16, with conspiring in league with Maragret of Anjou to effect 'the said King Edward IV's death by falsely and traitorously levying war to set up their King Henry VI or Edward Prince of Wales'. He was found guilty by the Court under the direction of Richard of Gloucester who was the main beneficiary of the confiscated lands. In September 1462 Edward IV had granted all of the Hungerford Estates then in his hands to Richard. Was it a coincidence that Richard presided at the trial? The whole of the Moleyns estate was enfeoffed and divided into eight parts, most of which passed to his daughter Mary. Condemned, Sir Thomas and Henry Courtenay were hung, drawn and quartered at Bymerton (Bemerton, Salisbury) on January 12th 1469. Sir Thomas was buried at Farleigh Hungerford. Sir Thomas Hungerford of Rowden (died 1469), the eldest son of Robert Hungerford, 3rd Baron Hungerford, lived chiefly at Rowden, near Chippenham. After giving some support to Edward IV and the Yorkists he joined in Warwick's conspiracy to restore Henry VI in 1469, was attainted, and was executed at Salisbury. He was buried in the chapel of Farleigh Castle.[1] Sir Thomas married Anne, daughter of Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, who married two husbands after his death—Sir Lawrence Raynesford and Sir Hugh Vaughan—and, dying on 5 July 1522, was buried in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster.[1] Sir Thomas left by Anne an only child, Mary, 4th Baroness Hungerford, who became the ward of William, Lord Hastings, and in 1480 married Sir Edward (afterwards Lord) Hastings, her guardian's son. The attainders on her father and grandfather were reversed in her favour in 1485, and her husband was summoned to Parliament as Lord Hungerford. George Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon, was her son.

  
  

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