William of Huntingfield

{{Short description|English baron}}

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File:Coat of arms of William de Huntingfield, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk.png

William of Huntingfield (died {{c.}} 1225{{cite ODNB|last=Turner|first=Ralph W.|title=Huntingfield, William of (died in or before 1225)| url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14238|date=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/14238 |accessdate=14 June 2011}}) was a medieval English baron, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk and one of the sureties of Magna Carta.

He held Dover Castle for King John from September 1203 (as a Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports)Batcheller, William, {{Google books|ENctuLyqWaUC|New history of Dover & Dover Castle during the Roman, Saxon, and Norman Governments|page=102}} and in exchange, the king took his son and daughter hostage. He was granted the lands seized from his disgraced brother and appointed Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk for 1210 and 1211. In the First Barons' War he was an active rebel against King John and one of the twenty-five chosen to oversee the observance of the resulting Magna Carta.

He subsequently supported the French invasion of England, and took part in the Fifth Crusade, during which he died.Weis, F.L. et al (2004) Ancestral Roots ... pg 176 [https://books.google.com/books?id=3F9nG8aFJ7MC&dq=william+de+huntingfield&pg=PA176 via Google]