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ISSUE OF HENRY DE HASTINGS AND WIFE, PRINCESS ADA:


i. Hillaria de Hastings chr. 1235 Ashill,Norfolk, England.

ii. Margery de Hastings chr. 1239 Ashill, Norfolk, England m. Sir William Harcourt.

iii. Henry de Hastings, Lord, first Baron Hastings, b. ca 1230 Ashill, Norfolk, England d. 1268 m. 1258 at Caine, Witshire, England, Joane de Cantilupe b. Monmouth, England, daughter of William de Cantilupe, Lord Abergavenny, and his wife, Eva de Braose. Sir Henry de Hastings was a baronial Leader who commanded the Londerers in 1264 at the battle of Lewes. He was taken prisoner in 1265 at Evesham as a rebel. After his release, he joined Derby at Chesterfield, helped to hold Keniworth against King Henry III, joined the disinherited barons on the island of Fly and was their leader until he was forced to submit to the king in 1267. He was Knight, Governor of the Castles of Scarborogh and Winchester in 1264, and Governor of the Castle of Kenilworth in 1265. Issue:

a. Audra de Hastings b. Allesley, Warwickshire, England.

b. Lora de Hastings b. 1265 Allesley, Warwickshire, England.

c. Joan de Hastings b. Warwickshire, England.

d. Edmund de Hastings b. 1267 Allesley,Warwickshire, England.

e. John de Hastings b. 5/6/1262 Ashill, Norfolk, England d. 2/28/1313 m. Isabel le Despencer who d. 12/4/1334 Pembroke, Wales, daughter of Hugh le Despencer, Earl, (chr. 3/1/1260 Ryhall, Rutland, England, d. 1326, hanged st Neath Abbey, Hereford, England, m. 5/1/1306) and his wife, Atianore de Clare of Gloucester. He was first Lord Abergavenny in 1289.4* lie was second Baron Hastings, and a claimant to the throne of Scotland in 1290. The claim was made in right of his grandmother, Ada, the dan. of David, Earl of Huntingdon, brother to Malcolm 4th, and to William, styled the Lion, Kings of Scotland. The Huntingdon Peerage states that he d. 3/9/1312.

He m. (2) in 1275 Isabella de Valence, the niece of Henry III. lie served in Scotland in 1285, in Wales in 1288 and in Ireland in 1295, and commanded the Durham troops at the siege of Carlaverock in 1300 he attended the 1301 parliament at Lincoln, and signed the baronial letter denying the right of Pope Boniface VIII to judge the dispute with Scotland. He was Lord Hastings, Seneschal of Aquitaine. Issue:

1. Margaret Hastings, Baroness chr. 1306 Abergavenny, Monmouth, England, m. 1321 at Abergavenny Baron William Martin.

2. Thomas Hastings chr. Abergavenny, Monmouth, England.

3. Sir Hugh Hastings, Knight, chr. 1310 Sutton Scotney, Hampshire, England, d. Gressing Hall m. 5/18/1330 Margery Foliot of Gressenhall, Norfolk, England, a daughter of Sir Richard Foliot. Issue of Sir Hugh Hastings and his wife, Margery Foliot:

1. Baron John Hastings chr. 1328 Elsing, Norfolk, England.

2. Isabella Hastings chr. 1332 Elsing, Norfolk, England.

3. Maud Hastings chr. 1334 Elsing, Norfolk, England.

4. Margery Hastings chr. 1336 Elsing, Norfolk, England.

5. Hugh Hastings, Lord, chr. 1930 Elsing, Norfolk, England, d. 1369 m. 1353 Anne Everingham at Laxton, Yorkshire, England, the dau. of Sir Adam Everingham. Issue:

(a) Margaret Hastings chr. 1355 Elsing, Norfolk, England.

(b) Hugh Hastings chr. 1354 Cressenhall, Norfolk, England d. 11/6/1386 Norfolk, England m. 11/111376 Anne Spencer, at Fenwick, Campbell,Yorkshire, England, the dau. of Lord Edward Spencer. Issue:

i. Hugh Hastings chr. 1377 Fenwick, Campbell,Yorkshire, England, d. 11/1335 m. Sanchia Blount.

ii. Edward Hastings, 8th Lord of Abergavenny, chr. 5/21/1382 Campbell, Yorkshire, England, d. 1/6/1437 Yorkshire, England m. 1407 Margery (Muriel) Denham, Baroness, at Hartland, Devonshire, England, b. 1386 Devonshire, the dau. of Sir John Denham. Issue:

a. John de Hastings, Baron, chr. 1412 Cressenhall, Norfolk, England, d. 1471 m. 1447 Anne Morley, Baroness, at Fenwick, Yorkshire, England, the dau. of Lord Thomas Morley and his wife, Isabel de la pole. Issue:

1. Isabel Hastings chr. 1437 Fenwick,Campbell, Yorkshire, England

2. Elizabeth Hastings chr. 1440 Fenwick, Campbell, Yorkshire, England.

3. Robert Hastings chr. 1444 Elsing, Norfolk, England.

4. Hugh Hastings, 10th Lord Abergavenny, was chr. 1435 Fenwick, Campbell, Yorkshire, England d. 1/7/1488 m. Anne Gascoigne on 4/12/1455 at Cawthorpe by Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, the dau. of Sir William Gascoigne. Issue:

a. George Hastings b. ca 1470 Yorkshire, England d. 1512 Yorkshire, England m. Anne 11. Brabason, Baroness, of Eastwell, Leicestershire, England, daughter of Alexander Brabason. Issue:

i. Hugh Hastings chr. 1505 Elsing, Campsall, Yorkshire, England m. Catherine le Strange, Baroness, 4/24/1523 at Hunstanton, Norfolk, England.
Ashill

Map of Ashill. Ashill is mentioned in the Domesday Book as having an extensive woodland. The manor passed from the de Vaux family to Sir Thomas Moulton by 1317.

Sources: The Huntingdon Peerage by Henry Nugent Bell (1820); Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage (1963); Wurts' Magna Charts; Ewen of East Anglia and the Fenland; New Century Cyclopedia of Names by Clarence L. Barnhart; Ewen of East Anglia and the Fenland.