In 1369 he purchased from Walter Pavely, de jure Baron Burghersh, the manor of Farleigh Montfort, now called Farleigh Hungerford, which served as the chief residence of his descendants, and in 1383 obtained licence to crenellate his manor house there, which thus became Farleigh Castle. In about 1384 he aroused the suspicion of King Richard II, who attached him, but he obtained a pardon and also a confirmation of his free warren at Farleigh. Marriages and children He married twice: Firstly to Eleanor Strug, daughter and heiress of Sir John Strug of Heytesbury; Secondly to Joan Hussey (d. 1 March 1412), heiress of Sir Edmund Hussey of Holbrook, by whom he had one surviving son and heir, three other sons having predeceased him: Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford (d. 1449) Death and burial Hungerford died at Farleigh on 3 December 1397, and was buried in the Chapel of St Anne (north transept chapel) of St Leonard's Chapel, Farleigh Hungerford Castle, where his chest tomb with effigies of himself and his wife survive. His portrait was made in a stained-glass window, engraved in Hoare's Modern History of Wiltshire, Heytesbury Hundred, p. 90. Sources Lee Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 28, pp. 257,258 Dugdale's Baronage; Collinson's Somerset, iii.353; Manning's Lives of the Speakers; Returns of members of parliament; Hoare's Hungerfordiana, privately printed, 1823; Canon Jackson's Guide to Farleigh-Hungerford, 1853. Attribution History of Parliament HUNGERFORD, Sir Thomas (d.1397), of Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset and Heytesbury, Wilts References 1330 births 1397 deaths People from Backwell Speakers of the House of Commons of England High Sheriffs of Wiltshire Thomas English MPs 1357 English MPs 1360 English MPs 1362 English MPs January 1377 English MPs 1378 English MPs 1379 English MPs January 1380 English MPs November 1380 English MPs May 1382 English MPs October 1383 English MPs April 1384 English MPs September 1388 English MPs January 1390 English MPs November 1390 English MPs 1393 English MPs 1386