Sir John Hastang Knight

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, 55:32, father of Katherine Hastang, wife was named Eve ¹⁶⁰

  Information about this person:

• Information: Sir John Hastang,of Leamington Hastings . ¹⁹³
From: Douglas Richardson <royalancestry@msn.com>
Subject: Complete Peerage Correction: Death date of Sir John Hastang,of Leamington Hastings, Warwickshire
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:30:17 -0700

Dear Newsgroup ~

The authoritative Complete Peerage, 6 (1926): 343 (sub Hastang) appears to have had a difficult time distinguishing John Hastang, of Chebsey, Staffordshire (husband of Maud Trussell), who occurs from 1359 to c.1367, from his father of the same name, Sir John Hastang, of Leamington Hastings, Warwickshire (husband of Blanche), who occurs from 1346 to say 1360. Having two successive generations of the same name with no clear delineation between the generations has long been the bane of medieval research.

Complete Peerage suggests that the elder Sir John Hastang and his wife, Blanche, were "possibly dead before 2 Feb. 1358/9," but this date appears to have been purely a guess, and is not based on any primary evidence. More recent research indicates that the elder Sir John Hastang (a knight) and his wife, Blanche, were involved in July 1352 in litigation involving Henry de Braylesford and Joan his wife regarding 16 acres of meadow in Chebsey, Staffordshire (see Colls. Hist. Staffs. 12 (1891): 115). In Michaelmas term, 1354 John Hastang, Knt. was likewise sued by the same parties regarding eight acres of meadow in Slyndon, Staffordshire (see Ibid., 129). In 1354 Sir John Hastang, of Leamington Hastings, Warwickshire, owed £200 to John le Blount, of Sodington, Worcestershire, and Adam le Botoner, of Coventry, Warwickshire (see PRO Document, C 241/138/113). In 1355 Sir John Hastang, of Warwickshire, owed £146 13s. 4d. to Richard de Piriton, clerk [see PRO Document, C 241/135/98). In 1360 he exchanged the manors of Budbrooke and Grave Curly (in Budbrooke), Warwickshire with Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, for those of Grafton and Upton Waryn, Worcestershire (see VCH Warwick 3 (1945): 65-68). Sometime before 1362 he granted the manor of Grandborough, Warwickshire for life to William Trussell, Knt. (see VCH Warwick, 6 (1951): 94-99). In 1362 there is mention of robbers breaking into the house of Sir John Hastang within the Park of Chebsey, Staffordshire (see Close Rolls). It is likely that the elder John is intended in this record, as the elder John is kmown to have been a knight, whereas there is no indication that the younger John ever took up knighthood. Whatever the case, the elder John certainly predeceased his son, the younger John, who is stated in various inquisitions to have died in 1365, 1366, or 1367. In 1365-1366 Ralph Earl of Stafford conveyed all his right in the manor of Chebsey, Staffordshire to John Hastang. John Hastang the younger is evidently intended in this record, as this individual is not styled a knight in the record. Also, other records indicate that John Hastang the younger and his wife, Maud, had earlier been jointly enfeoffed with the manor of Chebsey, Staffordshire by his father [see Complete Peerage, 6 (1926): 343, footnote n). Given these facts, it seems likely that the elder Sir John Hastang died sometime between 1362 and 1365/7, and that his death was quickly followed by that of his son, John Hastang the younger, who died in 1365, 1366, or 1367.

John married Eve. ¹⁶⁰