Robert Hungerford, 3rd Baron Hungerford

Robert Hungerford
Baron Hungerford
Coat of arms of Robert Hungerford
Arms of Hungerford: Sable, two bars argent in chief three plates
Tenure1459–1469
SuccessorMary, 4th Baroness Hungerford
Other titlesBaron Moleyns
Bornc. 1429[1][2]
England
Died17 May 1464[3] (aged c. 35)
Newcastle, Northumberland
BuriedSalisbury Cathedral
51°03′53″N 1°47′51″W / 51.06472°N 1.79750°W / 51.06472; -1.79750
Wars and battlesWars of the Roses
Battle of Towton (1461)
Battle of Hexham (1464)
Spouse(s)Eleanor Moleyns
IssueThomas of Rowden
Walter of Farleigh
ParentsRobert, 2nd Baron Hungerford
Margaret Botreaux

Robert Hungerford, 3rd Baron Hungerford (c.1429 – 17 May 1464) was an English nobleman. He supported the Lancastrian cause in the War of the Roses. In the late 1440s and early 1450s he was a member of successive parliaments. He was a prisoner of the French for much of the 1450s until his mother arranged a payment of a 7,966l ransom. In 1461, after defeat on the Towton battlefield on 29 March, he fled with Henry VI to Scotland. In 1461 he was attainted in Edward IV's first parliament, and executed in Newcastle soon after he was captured at the Battle of Hexham.

  1. ^ Cokayne 1926, p. 618.
  2. ^ Richardson II 2011, pp. 430–431.
  3. ^ Cokayne 1926, p. 620.

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