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William fitz Robert de Hastings

Male - Bef 1162


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  William fitz Robert de Hastings was born in of Little Easton, Essex, England; died before 1162.

    Family/Spouse: Helewise de Guerres. Helewise died after 1219 in Bildeston, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Ralph de Hastings  Descendancy chart to this point died before 29 Sep 1210.
    2. 3. Robert de Hastings  Descendancy chart to this point was born in of Little Easton, Essex, England; died about 1190.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Ralph de Hastings Descendancy chart to this point (1.William1) died before 29 Sep 1210.

    Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 4. Hawise de Hastings  Descendancy chart to this point was born in of Little Easton, Essex, England.

  2. 3.  Robert de Hastings Descendancy chart to this point (1.William1) was born in of Little Easton, Essex, England; died about 1190.

    Family/Spouse: Maud de Flamville. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 5. Alice de Hastings  Descendancy chart to this point


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Hawise de Hastings Descendancy chart to this point (2.Ralph2, 1.William1) was born in of Little Easton, Essex, England.

    Notes:

    Asserted in CP, the ODNB, Ancestral Roots, and The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz as a daughter of Matthew de Lovaine (Louvain, Louvaine, etc.), but Andrew Lancaster pointed out on SGM in June 2016 that this appears to have been based on the assumption that Philip Basset held Wix because Matthew de Louvaine was his wife's father, rather than her overlord, "ignoring the possibility that the family had enfeoffed a cadet branch which evidently was expected to inherit."

    Lancaster points to Clarence Smith's 1966 article "Hastings of Little Easton (part 1) in Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, Volume 2, Part 1. Says Lancaster: "[T]he snippets of evidence are small and the argument seems simple. [Smith] says CP asserts it was a free marriage when it was not. And then secondly he points to the clear evidence for an enfeoffed heiress being bought by the Bassets."

    Quoting Smith:

    "[Ralph de Hastings] was dead by Michaelmas 1210, leaving a daughter under age whose custody and marriage had been granted to Alan Bassett for 100 marks. It is not therefore surprising to find at the death of Sir Philip Basset of Wycombe, younger son of this Alan, in 1271, that he held under Sir Matthew de Lovaine the manor of Wix 'by courtesy of England of the inheritance of Helewisia his wife'. [...] G. W. Watson in the article on Despenser in the Complete Peerage, IV, p. 261, says that Sir Hugh Despenser married 'Aline, da. & h. of Sir Philip Basset of Wycombe, Bucks....by his first wife Hawise, da. of Sir Matthew de Lovaine of Little Easton, Essex,' to which is appended a footnote: 'She had, in free marriage, the manor of Wix, Essex, by the service of 20s. a year. Some genealogists say that she was da. of John de Grey of Eaton, Bucks.' Her fathering on Sir Matthew de Lovaine has no other support than the quite unwarranted assumption that she held Wix in free marriage: in fact she held it by inheritance as the Inquisition specifies, and Sir Matthew was her overlord but not her father."

    The IPM of Philip Basset specified as evidence is IPM 56 H3, Calendar I, No. 807, p. 273.

    John Watson said on SGM, 6 Jun 2016: "Clarence Smith's evidence that Ralph de Hastings was dead in 1210 and that his heiress was in the custody of Alan Basset is presumably taken from the Pipe Rolls of 12 John: 1209-1210, to which I have no access at the moment. (There is nothing in the fine rolls, close rolls, patent rolls, etc.) If anyone can confirm this, then I think it is a reasonable assumption that Hawise, first wife of Philip Basset was the daughter of Ralph de Hastings and not a daughter of Matthew de Louvain. She was presumably named after her grandmother, Hawise wife of William fitz Robert." Andrew Lancaster replied: "Yes, for the death 1210, Clarence-Smith cites the Pipe Rolls, PRS 26 NS, p. 35."

    Family/Spouse: Philip Basset. Philip (son of Alan Basset and Aline de Gay) was born about 1185 in of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England; died on 29 Oct 1271. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 6. Aline Basset  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1240 in of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England; died before 11 Apr 1281.

  2. 5.  Alice de Hastings Descendancy chart to this point (3.Robert2, 1.William1)

    Notes:

    CP notes that "[h]er name is sometimes given as Delicia, probably a clerical error for Aelicia."

    Family/Spouse: Ralph de Cornhill. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Alice married Godfrey de Lovaine about 1199. Godfrey (son of Godfrey III and Imagina of Looz) died before 26 Apr 1226. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 7. Matthew de Lovaine  Descendancy chart to this point was born in of Little Easton, Essex, England; died before Jun 1258.


Generation: 4

  1. 6.  Aline Basset Descendancy chart to this point (4.Hawise3, 2.Ralph2, 1.William1) was born about 1240 in of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England; died before 11 Apr 1281.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Between 1241 and 1249
    • Alternate birth: 1245

    Notes:

    Also called Aliva.

    Aline married Hugh le Despenser before 1261. Hugh (son of Hugh le Despenser and (Unknown)) was born about 1223; died on 4 Aug 1265 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England; was buried in Evesham Abbey, Evesham, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 8. Eleanor le Despenser  Descendancy chart to this point died on 30 Sep 1328 in London, England; was buried in Cowick Priory, Exeter, Devon, England.
    2. 9. Joan le Despenser  Descendancy chart to this point died before 8 Jun 1322.
    3. 10. Hugh le Despenser  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Mar 1261 in of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England; died on 27 Oct 1326 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.

  2. 7.  Matthew de Lovaine Descendancy chart to this point (5.Alice3, 3.Robert2, 1.William1) was born in of Little Easton, Essex, England; died before Jun 1258.

    Notes:

    Custodian of the honor of Eye.

    Family/Spouse: Muriel. Muriel died after 1274. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 11. Matthew de Lovaine  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1237 in of Little Easton, Essex, England; died before 24 May 1302.