Ralph de Hastings

Abt 1322 - 1397  (~ 75 years)

• 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 | Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of UKL
  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

  
  

• 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.]

  
  

• Sources

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