Robert
"3rd Baron Hungerford"
Hungerford
Born about in Farleigh castle, Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England
Ancestors 
Son of Robert Hungerford
and Margaret (Botreaux) Hungerford
Brother of
Katherine (Hungerford) Leventhorpe, Eleanor (Hungerford) Garth, Arnulph Hungerford, William Hungerford and Mary Hungerford
Husband of
Eleanor (Moleyns) Hungerford
— married
before 5 Nov 1440 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at about age 36
in Middleham, Yorkshire, England
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| Created 21 Feb 2011
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Biography
Robert Hungerford was a member of the aristocracy in England.
Robert Hungerford, 3rd Lord Hungerford (1428-1464) was the son of Robert Hungerford, 2nd Lord Hungerford and Margaret de Botreaux, 4th Baroness Botreaux. A page is maintained for him on wikipedia and Luminarium: Encyclopaedia Project.
Richardson[1] provides that his birth can be dated to 1428/1429 on the basis of being aged 30 in 1459, when he released from imprisonment, after ransom, in France.
In 1452 Hungerford accompanied John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, to Aquitaine, and was taken prisoner at the Battle for Guienne while endeavouring to raise the siege of Chastillon.
He was captured at the Battle of Hexham on 15 May 1464 and then executed (by beheading) at Middleham, Yorkshire, for treason, on 18 May 1464.
He is buried in Salisbury Cathedral.
Family and Legacy
He married Eleanor de Moleyns, daughter of Sir William de Moleyns and Anne Whalesborough, on 5 November 1440.
Children of Robert Hungerford, 3rd Lord Hungerford and Eleanor de Moleyns
- Sir Walter Hungerford d. 1516
- Sir Thomas Hungerford d. 17 Jan 1468/69
- Leonard Hungerford
- Frideswide Hungerford, a nun at Syon.
Sources
- ↑ Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families; Richardson; 2nd Edition, 2011, page 430.
See also:
Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), volume IV, page 109, page 362.
- Luminarium: Encyclopaedia Project - Wars of the Roses; Robert Hungerford, Lord Moleyns and Hungerford
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Child of William Moleyns, Knt., by Anne Whalesborough:
i. Eleanor Moleyns, married (1st) Robert Hungerford. (2nd) Oliver Manningham.
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Robert Hungerford, Knt., born about 1429. He married before 5 Nov. 1440 Eleanor Moleyns, daughter and heiress of William Moleyns, Knt., by Anne, daughter of John Whalesborough, Esq. They had three sons, Thomas, Knt., Walter, and Leonard, and one daughter, Frideswide (living 1469).
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