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Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings, KB (26 November 1466 – 8 November 1506) was an English peer.

Origins

Edward Hastings was born in Kirby Muxloe Castle, Leicestershire[citation needed] to Sir William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings and Katherine Neville, the daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and Alice Montagu, the daughter of Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury. At the time of the marriage Katherine Neville was the widow of William Bonville, 6th Baron Harington (1442-1460), beheaded after the Battle of Wakefield, by whom she had a daughter, Cecily.[1] Edward Hastings had three brothers, Sir William, Sir Richard, and George, and two sisters, Anne, who married George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, and Elizabeth.[2] His brothers William and Richard were alive at the time he made his will on 4 November 1506.[3]

Career

Edward Hastings was invested as a Knight of the Bath in 1475.[1]

He was High Steward of the Honour of Leicester in 1485. He was Constable of Leicester Castle 1485. He was High Forester of Southwood in 1488' He was appointed a Privy Councillor in 1504.[4]

Marriage and Family

Between 1478 and 1480 he married Mary Hungerford (born c. 1468 – died before 10 July 1533), daughter of Sir Thomas Hungerford of Rowden and Anne Percy, daughter of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, and Eleanor Neville.[5] Edward Hastings and Mary Hungerford had two sons and a daughter:[6]

While he was still only a youth 16 years of age, his father William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, incurred the enmity of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and on 13 June 1483 was arrested at a council meeting on Richard's orders, and beheaded without trial,[10] an event dramatized in Shakespeare's Richard III.

Edward Hastings died, aged 39, on 8 November 1506, and is said to have been buried at the Blackfriars, London.[11] On 1 May 1509 his widow married Sir Richard Sacheverell (d. 14 April 1534), but had no issue by him. She died before 10 July 1533, and was buried at Leicester.[12]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Richardson I 2011, p. 257.
  2. ^ Horrox 2004; Richardson II 2011, p. 371 harvnb error: multiple targets (3×): CITEREFRichardson_II2011 (help); Nicolas I 1826, pp. 368–75.
  3. ^ Nicolas II 1826, pp. 475–7.
  4. ^ Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition by Douglas Richardson
  5. ^ Richardson II 2011, pp. 372, 431 harvnb error: multiple targets (3×): CITEREFRichardson_II2011 (help).
  6. ^ Richardson II 2011, p. 372 harvnb error: multiple targets (3×): CITEREFRichardson_II2011 (help).
  7. ^ Cross 2004; Richardson II 2011, p. 374 harvnb error: multiple targets (3×): CITEREFRichardson_II2011 (help).
  8. ^ Nicolas II 1826, pp. 475–7.
  9. ^ Richardson IV 2011, p. 94.
  10. ^ Richardson II 2011, p. 371 harvnb error: multiple targets (3×): CITEREFRichardson_II2011 (help).
  11. ^ Richardson II 2011, p. 373 harvnb error: multiple targets (3×): CITEREFRichardson_II2011 (help).
  12. ^ Cokayne 1926, p. 375.

References

  • Cokayne, George Edward (1926). The Complete Peerage. Vol. VI. London: St Catherine Press. pp. 374–5.
  • Cross, Claire (2004). Hastings, George, first earl of Huntingdon (1486/7-1544). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 25 September 2012. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Nicolas, Nicholas Harris (1826). Testamenta Vetusta. Vol. I. London: Nicholas and Son.
  • Nicolas, Nicholas Harris (1826). Testamenta Vetusta. Vol. II. London: Nicholas and Son.
  • Horrox, Rosemary (2004). Hastings, William, first Baron Hastings (c.1430-1483). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 26 September 2012. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Vol. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) ISBN 1449966373
  • Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Vol. II (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) ISBN 1449966381
  • Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Vol. IV (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) ISBN 1460992709

Ancestry

Family of Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings
16. Ralph Hastings
8. Ralph Hastings
17. Margaret Herle
4. Leonard Hasting
18.
9. Maud Sutton
19.
2. William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings
20. Sir John Camoys
10. Thomas Camoys
21.
5. Alice Camoys
22. Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March
11. Lady Elizabeth Mortimer
23. Philippa Plantagenet
1. Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings
24. John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby
12. Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
25. Maud Percy
6. Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury
26. John of Gaunt
13. Lady Joan Beaufort
27. Katherine Swynford
3. Katherine Neville, Baroness Hastings
28. John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury
14. Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury
29. Maud Francis
7. Alice Montacute
30. Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent
15. Eleanor Holland
31. Alice Fitzalan
Peerage of England
Preceded by Baron Hastings
1483–1506 		Succeeded by
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