Robert Hungerford, 3rd Baron Hungerford (c.1429 – 17 May 1464), known as Lord Moleyns from 1445 until the death of his father in 1459, was an English nobleman. He supported the Lancastrian cause in the Wars 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 at the Battle of Towton on 29 March, he fled with Henry VI to Scotland. In 1461 he was attainted in Edward IV's first parliament and was executed in Newcastle soon after he was captured at the Battle of Hexham.
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Origins
Hungerford was the son and heir of Robert Hungerford, 2nd Baron Hungerford (son of Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford (died 1449)) by his wife Margaret, 4th Baroness Botreaux.