Sir Thomas Hungerford of Rowden (died 17 January 1469) was an English nobleman. He supported the Lancastrian cause in the War of the Roses and was executed for supporting a conspiracy to restore Henry VI.[1]
Thomas was pardoned by Edward IV for participating in the rebellion of his father in November 1462 and was knighted not long afterward. He was allowed to inherit some of his attained father's lands after his execution following the Battle of Hexham on 17 May 1464.[2]
Executionedit
After giving some support to Edward IV and the Yorkists, Thomas Hungerford was arrested with Henry Courtenay (brother of Thomas Courtenay, 6th/14th Earl of Devon) in Wiltshire before 11 November 1468. They were tried on 12 January 1469 in Salisbury before a court headed by six peers including Richard, Duke of Gloucester and found guilty by a jury of 16. They were charged with having joined in a Lancastrian conspiracy to restore Henry VI and plotted with his wife Margaret of Anjou on 21 May 1468 and other occasions the "final death and final destruction...of the Most Christian Prince, Edward IV."[3]
Both men were executed on 17 January 1469 in the presence of Edward IV and received the "fullest and protracted horrors" of a fifteenth century execution.[4] Thomas Hungerford was buried in the chapel of Farleigh Castle.
Marriage and issueedit
Before 16 October 1460, still at a very early age, he married Anne Percy, daughter of Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland. His wife survived him until 5 July 1522 and was buried in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster.[1]
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