Chronicle of Gregory 1439. 30 Apr 1439. And the laste day of Aprylle deyde the Erle of Warwyke (age 57) at Roone [Map]. Ande the same yere the Cardynalle Archebyschoppe of Yorke (age 59), the Byschoppe of Northewyche (age 51), the Byschoppe of Syn Davys and many othyr docters, and the Duke of Northefolke (age 23), the Erle of Stafford (age 36), the Lorde Bowcer, and the Lorde Hungerforde (age 39), with a grete mayny, wente unto Calys; and they hadde the Duke of Orlyaunce (age 44) with hem for to trete of pes by twyne Ingelonde and Fraunce. And there mette with hem the grete lordys of Fraunce, that ys to wyte, of spyrytualle and temporalle, the Archebyschoppe of Raynys (age 59), whythe many moo byschoppys, the Erle of Wendon (age 63), a the Bastarde of Orlyaunce (age 36), and many othyr lordys of Fraunce; and thedyr come the Byschoppe of Spayne and of Colayne, and many moo othyr dyvers contreys that com fro the Counselle of Basylle.

After 1459. Salisbury Cathedral [Map]. Monument to Robert Hungerford 2nd Baron Hungerford (deceased). Fluted Period. Lancastrian Esses Collar.

Effigy of Robert Lord Hungerford. Robert Hungerford 2nd Baron Hungerford

WAS descended from an ancient Wiltshire family. He was the son and heir of Walter Lord Hungerford by his wife Catherine, and was born about the year 1409. His father (distinguished by his military services in the reigns of Henry the Fourth and Fifth) was one of the executors of the last-mentioned monarch, and under Henry the Sixth Captain of the Castle of Cherbourg, Steward of the Royal Household, and Treasurer of the Exchequer. He died in 1449, when Robert, his eldest son, the subject of this notice, succeeded him in his estates. Robert served during the lifetime of his father in the wars in France, under John Duke of Bedford; and in 1453 was in that expedition into Guienne which proved so fatal to Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury and his son the Lord Lisle. Robert Lord Hungerford's son^a by his wife, Margaret, daughter of Lord Botreaux, accompanied him, and was taken prisoner in the disastrous affair at Chastillon, which, under the head of Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury, we have already detailed. Lord Hungerford died 22d April, 1459, and directed by his last will that he should be buried near the altar of St. Osmund, in the cathedral church of Salisbury [Map], where his father had founded a chantry, and where his own widow, Margaret, also established another.

Note a. This son was styled the Lord Moleyns, in right of his wife. He remained prisoner in France upwards of seven years. Dugdale has detailed the curious items of the "vast charges" his mother, Margaret, incurred to support him and his family during his captivity, to pay his debts, previously contracted, and to procure his ransom. These charges amounted in the aggregate to nearly 20,0001. of which the sum for the ransom was 7,6901. See Baronage, Vo!. II. p. 209.