Paternal Family Tree: Edward Hungerford
Maternal Family Tree: Edward Hungerford
Before 1632 [his father] Anthony Hungerford [aged 23] and [his mother] Rachel Jones were married.
On 20th October 1632 Edward Hungerford was born to Anthony Hungerford [aged 24] and Rachel Jones. He was baptised at St Mary the Virgin Church, Black Bourton.
In 1649 Edward Hungerford [aged 16] educated at Queen's College, Oxford University.
On 14th April 1653 [his brother-in-law] Henry Carey 4th Viscount Falkland [aged 19] and [his sister] Rachel Hungerford Viscountess Falkland [aged 18] were married at Black Bourton, Bampton. Rachel Hungerford Viscountess Falkland by marriage Viscountess Falkland.
John Evelyn's Diary. 9th June 1654. Dined at Marlborough [Map], which having been lately fired, was now new built. At one end of this town, we saw my Lord Seymour's [aged 64] house, but nothing observable save the Mount, to which we ascended by windings for near half a mile. It seems to have been cast up by hand. We passed by Alexander Popham [aged 49], a noble seat, park, and river. Thence, to Newbury [Map], a considerable town, and Donnington, famous for its battle, siege, and castle, this last had been in the possession of old Geoffrey Chaucer. Then to Aldermaston, a house of Sir Humphrey Forster's, built à la moderne. Also, that exceedingly beautiful seat of my Lord Pembroke [aged 33], on the ascent of hill, flanked with wood, and regarding the river, and so, at night, to Cadenham, the mansion of Edward Hungerford [aged 21], Esq, uncle to my wife [aged 19], where we made some stay. The rest of the week we did nothing but feast and make good cheer, to welcome my wife.
On 18th August 1657 [his father] Anthony Hungerford [aged 49] died at Farleigh Hungerford Castle [Map]. He was buried at Hungerford Chapel, St Mary the Virgin Church, Black Bourton.
Before 1658 Edward Hungerford [aged 25] and Jane Hele were married.
In 1659 Edward Hungerford [aged 26] was elected MP Chippenham during the Third Protectorate Parliament.
In 1660 Edward Hungerford [aged 27] was elected MP Chippenham during the Convention Parliament.
Around 28th November 1660 Charles Gerard 4th Baron Gerard [aged 26] and [his future wife] Jane Digby Baroness Gerard [aged 23] were married. Jane Digby Baroness Gerard by marriage Baroness Gerard of Gerard's Bromley.
In 1661 Edward Hungerford [aged 28] was appointed Lieutenant Colonel.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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Around 1661 [his son] Edward Hungerford was born to Edward Hungerford [aged 28] and [his wife] Jane Hele. He married before 14th October 1678 Alathea Compton, daughter of James Compton 3rd Earl of Northampton and Isabella Sackville Countess Northampton.
On 23rd April 1661 King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 30] was crowned II King England Scotland and Ireland at Westminster Abbey [Map].
John Bennet 1st Baron Ossulston [aged 44], Francis Fane [aged 23] and Edward Hungerford [aged 28] was appointed Knight of the Bath.
Francis Godolphin [aged 55] was knighted.
Josceline Percy 11th Earl of Northumberland [aged 16] attended.
James Howard 3rd Earl Suffolk [aged 42] was appointed Earl Marshal.
On 8th May 1661 King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 30] summoned his second Parliament.
John Bennet 1st Baron Ossulston [aged 44] was elected MP Wallingford.
James Thynne [aged 56] was elected MP Wiltshire.
Adam Browne 2nd Baronet [aged 35] was elected MP Surrey.
Henry Cavendish 2nd Duke Newcastle upon Tyne [aged 30] was elected MP Northumberland.
William Compton [aged 36] was elected MP Cambridge.
Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry [aged 32] was elected MP Camelford.
Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge [aged 61] was elected MP Bath and Heytesbury.
Edward Hungerford [aged 28] was elected MP Chippenham.
Robert Pierrepont [aged 24] was elected MP Nottingham.
John Melbury Sampford Strangeways [aged 75] was elected MP Weymouth.
Giles Strangeways [aged 45] was elected MP Dorset.
John Strangeways [aged 24] was elected MP Bridport.
William Wyndham 1st Baronet [aged 29] was elected MP Taunton.
James Herbert [aged 38] was elected MP Queenborough.
William Alington 1st and 3rd Baron Alington [aged 21] was elected MP Cambridge.
William Bowes of Streatlam [aged 4] was elected MP Durham.
Robert Brooke [aged 24] was elected MP Aldeburgh.
Josiah Child [aged 30] was elected MP Dartmouth.
Gervase Clifton 1st Baronet [aged 73] was elected MP Nottinghamshire.
Thomas Crew 2nd Baron Crew [aged 37] was elected MP Brackley.
Richard Jennings [aged 42] was elected MP St Albans.
Robert Kemp 2nd Baronet [aged 33] was elected MP Norfolk.
Edward Phelips [aged 48] was elected MP Somerset.
Robert Robartes [aged 27] was elected MP Bossiney.
Hender Robartes [aged 25] was elected MP Bodmin.
Clement Fisher 2nd Baronet [aged 48] was elected MP Coventry.
William Portman 6th Baronet [aged 17] was elected MP Taunton.
John Robinson 1st Baronet [aged 46] was elected MP Rye.
In 1664 [his brother-in-law] James Hayes [aged 27] and [his sister] Rachel Hungerford Viscountess Falkland [aged 29] were married.
On 18th March 1664 [his wife] Jane Hele died.
On 3rd February 1666 Edward Hungerford [aged 33] and Jane Culme [aged 29] were married.
In 1674 [his wife] Jane Culme [aged 37] died.
A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5 Gartree Hundred: Horninghold. Horninghold [Map] lies seven miles north-east of Market Harborough [Map] and four miles south-west of Uppingham [Map]. The parish, which is 1,217 a. in area, extends over the Middle Lias clays which underlie the hills on the borders of Rutland. The soil is chiefly clay and largely devoted to pasture. The road from Hallaton to Uppingham [Map], on which the village stands, crosses the parish from west to east; it is joined at the east end of the village by a road from Great Easton. There are two field tracks, one to Blaston, and one which crosses the road from Hallaton to Allexton and continues to Keythorpe.
Before the Conquest Horninghold [Map] was one of a group of estates apparently held by four thegns, Osulf, Osmund, Roulf, and Levrick. In 1086 the vill was said to be held by Robert de Todeni, lord of Belvoir, though it may have been given before this date to Robert's priory of Belvoir, which had been founded in 1076. At the beginning of the 12th century it was farmed by William D'Aubigny. Horninghold formed part of the original endowment of the priory and remained in its possession until the Dissolution. It was confirmed to the priory at various times during the Middle Ages.
Note A. the Dissolution the manor [Map] passed to the Crown, and in 1545 Henry VIII licensed Edward Elrington and Humphrey Metcalfe, to whom he had previously sold it, to alienate the manor and the rest of the former priory's property in the parish to John Beaumont and Henry Alycock. There was a lease of the manor outstanding for 41 years from 1531 which had been made by Belvoir Priory to Anthony Bewell, the priory's bailiff. On Beaumont's forfeiture the manor once more passed to the Crown, and in 1553 it was purchased for £566 by Edward Griffin, the Attorney-General, whose family owned the nearby manor of Gumley. In 1590 William Turpin of Knaptoft, whose father had owned land in Horninghold, purchased the manor from Edward Griffin's heir. Turpin was knighted in 1603 and died in 1617; his widow held the manor until her death about the end of 1633, and was succeeded by her daughter Elizabeth, who married Sir John Pretyman of Loddington [aged 64].
The estate was settled upon their eldest son John Pretyman and his wife Margaret on their marriage in 1649. John Pretyman died in 1658 leaving his widow as owner of the estate, which she brought to her second husband Sir John Heath, the second son of Sir Robert Heath of Brasted Place (Kent) and M.P. for Clitheroe (Lancs.) from 1661 to 1679. She died in 1676 and the available evidence suggests that Horninghold manor did not descend to her daughter and heir. It appears to have been sold by Heath to Sir Edward Hungerford [aged 43], who was in possession by 1676 and presented to the living. Thereafter the manorial descent is lost. Sir Edward Hungerford died in 1711, but it is by no means certain that he could or would have retained the manor of Horninghold for more than a few years, for his extravagance was notorious and he is said to have disposed of more than thirty manors during his lifetime.
Before 14th October 1678 [his son] Edward Hungerford [aged 17] and [his daughter-in-law] Alathea Compton [aged 17] were married. She the daughter of James Compton 3rd Earl of Northampton [aged 56] and Isabella Sackville Countess Northampton [aged 56].
In 1679 Edward Hungerford [aged 46] was elected MP Chippenham.
In July 1679 Edward Hungerford [aged 46] and Jane Digby Baroness Gerard [aged 42] were married.
In January 1680 [his mother] Rachel Jones died.
On 21st March 1681 Edward Hungerford [aged 48] was elected MP Chippenham at Oxford, Oxfordshire [Map] during the Oxford Parliament 5C2.
Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes
Récits d’un bourgeois de Valenciennes aka The Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes is a vivid 14th-century vernacular chronicle written by an anonymous urban chronicler from Valenciennes in the County of Hainaut. It survives in a manuscript that describes local and regional history from about 1253 to 1366, blending chronology, narrative episodes, and eyewitness-style accounts of political, military, and social events in medieval France, Flanders, and the Low Countries. The work begins with a chronological framework of events affecting Valenciennes and its region under rulers such as King Philip VI of France and the shifting allegiances of local nobility. It includes accounts of conflicts, sieges, diplomatic manoeuvres, and the impact of broader struggles like the Hundred Years’ War on urban life in Hainaut. Written from the perspective of a burgher (bourgeois) rather than a monastery or royal court, the chronicle offers a rare lay viewpoint on high politics and warfare, reflecting how merchants, townspeople, and civic institutions experienced the turbulence of the 13th and 14th centuries. Its narrative style combines straightforward reporting of events with moral and civic observations, making it a valuable source for readers interested in medieval urban society, regional politics, and the lived experience of war and governance in pre-modern Europe.
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In 1682 Edward Hungerford [aged 49] was appointed Lieutenant Colonel.
After 21st March 1683 Edward Hungerford [aged 50] was implicated and his home was searched during the Rye House Plot.
On 8th November 1684 [his step-son] Digby Gerard 5th Baron Gerard [aged 22] died. His succeeded second cousin once removed Charles [aged 25] succeeded 6th Baron Gerard of Gerard's Bromley.
In 1685 Edward Hungerford [aged 52] was elected MP New Shoreham.
In 1688 Edward Hungerford [aged 55] was elected MP New Shoreham.
In 1689 Edward Hungerford [aged 56] was elected MP New Shoreham.
In September 1689 [his son] Edward Hungerford [aged 28] died.
In 1695 Edward Hungerford [aged 62] was elected MP Steyning.
In 1698 Edward Hungerford [aged 65] was elected MP Steyning.
In 1700 Edward Hungerford [aged 67] was elected MP Steyning.
In 1702 Edward Hungerford [aged 69] was elected MP Steyning.
On 27th October 1703 [his wife] Jane Digby Baroness Gerard [aged 66] died.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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In 1711 Edward Hungerford [aged 78] died. He was buried at St Martin in the Fields Church [Map].
[his daughter] Frances Hungerford was born to Edward Hungerford and Jane Hele.
[his daughter] Rachel Hungerford Viscountess Massereene was born to Edward Hungerford and Jane Hele. She married Clotworthy Skeffington 3rd Viscount Massereene, son of John Skeffington 2nd Viscount Massereene and Mary Clotworthy, and had issue.
Kings Wessex: Great x 20 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 16 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 22 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 17 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 15 Grand Son of King John of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 16 Grand Son of King William I of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 19 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 23 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 17 Grand Son of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Hungerford 
9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Hungerford 10 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Hungerford 11 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Blount 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Blount 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Seymour 
11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Anthony Hungerford 12 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
GrandFather: Anthony Hungerford of Black Bourton 13 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Father: Anthony Hungerford 14 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Giles Crouch of Cornhill
GrandMother: Sarah Crouch
Edward Hungerford 15 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
GrandFather: Rice Jones
Mother: Rachel Jones