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Ralph de Hastings

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Name Ralph de Hastings [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] Birth Abt 1322 of Slingsby, Yorkshire, England [7, 8]
Gender Male Death 21 Oct 1397 [7, 9, 10] Alternate death 25 Oct 1397 [8] Alternate death 1398 [4, 11] Burial Sulby Abbey, Northamptonshire, England [5, 7, 12]
Person ID I9985 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 15 Mar 2021
Father Ralph de Hastings, b. of Allerston, Yorkshire, England d. Nov 1346
Mother Margaret de Herle d. Aft Nov 1346 Family ID F5017 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Isabel de Saddington d. Bef 1379 Children + 1. Margaret Hastings d. 7 Apr 1406, Noseley, Leicestershire, England Family ID F5012 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 13 Nov 2016
Family 2 Maud Grey d. Aft 28 Nov 1423 Marriage Bef 1379 [7] Family ID F7122 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 13 Nov 2016
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Notes - Knight of the shire for Leicestershire, 1364; Warden of the West Marches, 1371; Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1376-77; Knight of the shire for Yorkshire, 1378 and 1380; Governor of York Castle; Steward of Pickering.
Fought at Neville's Cross, 1346; later served in Normandy and Brittany, and was present at the Battle of Espagnols-sur-Mer in 1350. Fought at the Battle of Nájera. Accompanied John of Gaunt on his expeditions in 1372 and 1373. Testified in the Scrope-Grosvenor case.
"Sir Ralph Hastings, the son of Sir Ralph Hastings [...] was a retainer of Henry Duke of Lancaster, at the wages of forty marks per annum, to be paid out of the manor of Pickering. In 1372 he was joined in commission with Thomas Hatfield, Bishop of Durham, Gilbert de Umframville, Earl of Angus, &c. on the afTairs of the Scottish borders. Four years afterwards, he was employed with the Earl of Warwick, on a similar service. In 1377, and again in 1380, he was Sheriff of Yorkshire and Governor of York Castle." [Testamenta Eboracensia, citation details below.]
- Knight of the shire for Leicestershire, 1364; Warden of the West Marches, 1371; Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1376-77; Knight of the shire for Yorkshire, 1378 and 1380; Governor of York Castle; Steward of Pickering.
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- [S1392] Testamenta Eboracensia, Or, Wills Registered at York: Illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics, Etc. of the Province of York, from the Year MCCC Downwards (Surtees Soc. 4). London: J. B. Nichols and Son, 1836., year only.
- [S1388] Slingsby and Slingsby Castle by Arthur St. Clair Brooke. London: Methuen & Co., 1904.
- [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.
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