Hugh Hastings

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Hugh Hastings, portrait after depicting on the bream in Elsing Church
Bream by Hugh Hastings

Sir Hugh Hastings (also Hugh de Hastings ) (* around 1310; † July 29 or 30, 1347 ) was an English knight .

Origin, inheritance and marriage

Hugh Hastings was a younger son of John Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings and his second wife Isabel le Despenser . His father died in 1313, his mother married Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer , around 1318 . After the death of his mother in December 1334, Hastings inherited the estate of Monewdon in Suffolk and lands near Sutton Scotney in Hampshire , these properties were transferred to him on March 28, 1335. Before March 18, 1330, Hastings had married Margaret Foliot (around 1313-1349), the eldest daughter of Sir Richard Foliot and Joan de Braose. His wife had been his mother's ward since 1325. She was the heiress of Elsing , Gressenhall and Weasenham in Norfolk , and through her mother she became a co- heir of the Marcher Lord William de Braose, 2nd Baron Braose .

Service as administrator and military

On November 8, 1338 Hastings was appointed Justice of the Peace in the West Riding of Yorkshire . In addition, he regularly held various other offices. However, he never served as a sheriff or a member of parliament , but took part in a large council meeting in Westminster on April 29, 1342 as one of 106 secular representatives .

In addition to his administrative duties, Hastings served regularly in the military. In the second Scottish War of Independence he took part in the English campaigns to Scotland from 1335 to 1338. During the Hundred Years War in July 1338 Hastings was part of the army with which King Edward III. moved to the Netherlands. In the wake of Henry, Earl of Derby , he fought in the Battle of Sluys in July 1340 . During the campaign in Brittany from 1342 to 1342 he served under his nephew Lawrence Hastings . In 1345 he served under the Earl of Derby and his nephew in Gascony , but like his nephew, he was probably too late to take part in the Battle of Auberoche in October 1345. On June 20, 1346, he was appointed Captain and Lieutenant of the King in Flanders . While the king invaded northern France with the main English army and defeated the French at the Battle of Crecy on August 26th, Hastings secured the border between France and the Netherlands with around 250 archers and soldiers and a contingent of Flemish cities. He besieged in vain Bethune . After dismissing the Flemish contingent, Hastings and his soldiers supported the siege of Calais . Shortly before the surrender of Calais, Hastings was appointed Seneschal of Gascony in May 1347 . For this task 50 men in arms and 80 archers were made available to him. Hastings did not take office. He returned to England, presumably ill, where he drew up his will on July 22, 1347 at Old Ford in Middlesex and died a week later.

He was buried in the church of St Mary in Elsing , which he donated , where a splendid bream commemorates him. The Earl of Derby had rewarded him for his services with the transfer of several estates, and around 1342 his nephew Lawrence Hastings had also transferred the Oswardbek estate in Nottinghamshire to him for lifelong use .

progeny

Hastings had several children with his wife Margaret, including

  • John Hastings († 1393)
  • Sir Hugh Hastings († around 1369)
  • Maud Hastings (1337-1405) ∞ Sir Peter Delamore

Web links

Commons : Sir Hugh Hastings  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anne McGee Marga star, John A. Goodall: Gothic tombs of kinship in France, the low countries, and England. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park 2000. ISBN 0-271-01859-3 , p. 105
personal data
SURNAME Hastings, Hugh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Hastings, Hugh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight, Seneschal of Gascony
DATE OF BIRTH around 1310
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1347 or July 30, 1347