Edmund Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings of Inchmahome

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Edmund Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings of Inchmahome (* between 1263 and 1269; † June 23 or 24, 1314 near Bannockburn ) was an English nobleman and military man.

origin

Edmund Hastings was a younger son of Henry Hastings and his wife Joanna de Cantilupe. His father had been one of the leaders of the rebels against the king during the Second War of the Barons . As a rebel, his goods had been denied to him, so that he had to buy them back after the end of the civil war. John Hastings died in 1269 and he was heir to Edmund's older brother, John Hastings .

Marriage to a Scottish heiress

Through the favor of the English King Edward I , Hastings was allowed to marry Isabel, the widow of William Comyn of Kirkintilloch and daughter and heir to the Scottish nobles Isabel, Countess of Menteith and Sir John Russel around 1293 . Shortly before, on January 6, 1293, Edward I had ordered the Scottish King John Balliol to release Isabel from her oath not to marry without Balliol's consent, since he would have promised Edmund Hastings her marriage in 1291 or 1292, when Scotland was under stood under his rule. In 1285 the Scottish Parliament had granted Isabel the Younger half of the lands to her mother, Isabel, Countess of Menteith. By marriage, Hastings acquired these lands, but not the right to the title of Earl of Menteith . As the great-grandson of David of Huntingdon , Hastings himself claimed possessions in Dundee and parts of the baronies Inverbervie in Kincardineshire and Longforgan in Perthshire . Since Hastings loyally supported the English king in his attempt to bring Scotland under English sovereignty, on December 26, 1295 his father's property in Suffolk, which had not yet been returned, was awarded to him. On August 28, 1296, Hastings swore allegiance to the king as overlord of Scotland.

Although Hastings struggled to keep his wife's Scottish estates under his administration after the outbreak of the Scottish War of Independence in 1296, Edward I explicitly took his claims into account when, on May 22, 1306, Edmund's older brother John took over the occupied lands of Alan Stewart, Earl of Menteith transferred, the grandson of Walter Stewart .

Participation in the Scottish War of Independence

During the war against Scotland between 1298 and 1310, Hastings was regularly called up for military service. From 1299 he was also called to Parliament regularly , where he named himself after Inchmahome in Perthshire, the most important rule of Menteith Lord Hastings of Inchmahome . At the beginning of 1300 he supported Edward I in his campaign to Annandale and in July in the siege of Caerlaverock . Like many other English nobles, he signed the letter to the Pope on February 12, 1301, in which the English barons denied the Pope the right to judge King Edward's claims to Scotland. In February 1302 Hastings was appointed administrator of Berwick and in July 1306 of Perth . In June 1308 Edward II appointed him one of the three military governors for Scotland between the Forth and the Orkneys . From 1310 to 1311 he was Constable of Dundee and in May 1312 again administrator and sheriff of Berwick. In the summer of 1314 he took part in Edward II's campaign to Scotland, which ended in the clear defeat of Bannockburn , where he fell. No children are known of him.

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SURNAME Hastings, Edmund, 1st Baron Hastings of Inchmahome
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman and military
DATE OF BIRTH between 1263 and 1269
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1314 or June 24, 1314
Place of death near Bannockburn (Scotland)