Hugh de Hastings

Abt 1310 - 1347  (~ 37 years)

• Name	Hugh de Hastings  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1310	of Sutton Scotney, Hampshire, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Elsing, Norfolk, England   [4]
  Death	30 Jul 1347  [2]
  Burial	Elsing, Norfolk, England   [2, 5]
  Person ID	I13626	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	2 Oct 2020

  
  

  Father	John de Hastings,   b. of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales d. 10 Feb 1313
  Mother	Isabel le Despenser   d. 4 Dec 1334
  Marriage	Bef 1309  [2, 6]
  Family ID	F108	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margery Foliot,   b. Between 1312 and 1313   d. 8 Aug 1349 (Age ~ 37 years)
  Marriage	Bef 18 May 1330  [2, 5, 7]
  Children	1. Hugh de Hastings,   b. Abt 1335, of Elsing, Norfolk, England d. Sep 1369, Kalkwell Hill, near Calais, France (Age ~ 34 years)   2. Maud de Hastings,   b. Abt 1335   d. 10 Apr 1405 (Age ~ 70 years)
  Family ID	F8536	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Dec 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Steward to Philippe of Hainault, queen consort to Edward III. Fought at Crécy and at the siege of Calais; toward the end of the latter, he was appointed seneschal of Gascony, but died before he could take up that post. "Hastings's life as a man of action is admirably commemorated by one of the most celebrated of all English brasses, in which his armoured image is flanked by smaller figures bearing the arms of some of the great men with whom he had been associated during his military career, including the king and the earls of Lancaster, Warwick, and Pembroke. Investigation of the contents of Hastings's tomb in September 1978 revealed a man about 5 feet 10 inches tall, who had been buried wearing a cow-hair wig or hat. The cause of death was not revealed, but various injuries, including damaged incisor teeth, apparently the result of a severe blow to the mouth, and the presence of osteoarthritis in shoulder and elbow joints, suggest that Hastings's military career had taken its toll." [Oxford DNB, citation details below.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2163] The Hundred of Launditch and Deanery of Brisley, in the County of Norfolk by G. A. Carthew. Norwich: Miller and Leavins, 1877. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S2204] Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966) by Walter Goodwin Davis. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996., date only. [S4342] Norfolk Families by Walter Rye. Two volumes, 1911-13. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S1016] Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2001., says "before 1308". [S2163] The Hundred of Launditch and Deanery of Brisley, in the County of Norfolk by G. A. Carthew. Norwich: Miller and Leavins, 1877., "before 1 Jun 1330".