Sir Edward Hungerford (died 1522), was a soldier and courtier in the court of King

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who was present at the

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in 1520.

Biography

Edward was the son and heir of Sir

Walter Hungerford of Farleigh Sir Walter Hungerford of Farleigh (died in 1516) fought for Henry VII at the Battle of Bosworth. He served on the Privy Council for both Henry VII and Henry VIII. Biography Walter Hungerford was the youngest son of Robert Hungerford, 3rd Baron ...

and his wife Jane, daughter of Sir William Bulstrode. He accompanied Sir Walter to Scotland in 1503. He served in the English army in France in 1513, when he was knighted at the siege of Tournai. He was

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in 1517, and

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in 1518. In 1520, he attended Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. He died on 24 January 1522, survived by his second wife Agnes who was sole executrix of his will.

Family

Sir Edward married twice. His first wife was Jane de la Zouche daughter of John, 7th Lord Zouche. She was appointed to wait on

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in October 1501. They had one child

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(1503–1540) who was created 1st Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury in 1536. Sir Edward's second wife was

Agnes Cotell Agnes, Lady Hungerford (died 20 February 1523) was a murderer and the second wife of Sir Edward Hungerford. When he died in 1522, Agnes was charged and convicted of the murder of her first husband, John Cotell. She was hanged at Tyburn in 1523. ...

. Agnes had strangled her first husband just before she married again to Sir Edward. Not until Sir Edward's death were proceedings taken against her and her accomplices for the murder. She and Mathewe were then convicted and were hanged at

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on 20 February 1524;

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(Julian calendar start of year adjusted to 1 January) Sir Edward's involvement in the murder or cover-up is unclear.

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* * Attribution: * Endnotes **Dugdale's Baronage; **Burke's Extinct Peerage; **Hoare's Hungerfordiana, 1823; **Jackson's Guide to Farleigh-Hungerford, 1853, and Sheriffs of Wiltshire; Burnet's Hist. of Reformation, i. 566–7; **Hall's Society in the Elizabethan Age; **Hoare's Modern Wiltshire, Heytesbury Hundred, pp. 110 sq.; **Brewer and Gairdner's Letters and Papers of Henry VIII; Antiquary, ii. 233.

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