Sir William de Hastings Knight

  General Notes:

Weis's Ancestral Roots, 93:27, Ada of Huntingdon married Sir Henry de Hastings, son of William de Hastings and Margaret Bigod, and grandson of Roger Bigod. ¹⁶⁰

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From: Douglas Richardson <royalances...@msn.com>
Subject: Revised Hastings pedigree
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:19:59 -0800 (PST)

HASTINGS FAMILY PEDIGREE

1. William de Hastings, Knt., of Lidgate, Suffolk, Blunham, Bedfordshire, Herling, Tibenham, and Gissing (in Diss), Norfolk, Aston- Flamville, Barwell, Burbach, Nailstone, and Wistow, Leicestershire, Haselover, Warwickshire, etc., king's steward, hereditary steward of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, +died 1224, m. Margaret (or Margery) le Bigod, dau. of Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, by Ida, dau. of Ralph V de Tony.

2. Henry de Hastings, Knt., of Blunham, Bedfordshire, Barwell, Burbach, Nailstone, and Wistow, Leicestershire, Ashill, Norfolk, Aston (in Munslow), Shropshire, Lidgate, Suffolk, Allesley, Birdingbury, and Fillongley, Warwickshire, etc., king's steward, 1226/8, 1236, hereditary steward of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, b. about 1205, d. sh. bef. 9 Aug. 1250. He m. in or after 1224 Ada of Huntingdon, living 4 Aug. 1241, d. bef. Trinity term 1242.

3. Henry de Hastings, Knt., of Cavendish, Gazeley, Lidgate, Little Udeley, Rede, etc., Suffolk, Barwell, Nailstone, and Wistow, Leicestershire, Hastings (in Tottenham), Middlesex, Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, Aston (in Munslow), Shropshire, Allesley and Fillongley, Warwickshire, etc., hereditary steward of the liberty of Bury St. Edmunds Abbey, born about 1235 (came of age 10 May 1256), d. sh. bef. 4 March 1268/9. He m. in or bef. 1261 Joan de Cantelowe, d. bef. June 1271.

4. John de Hastings, Knt., 1st Lord Hastings, hereditary steward of the liberty of Bury St. Edmunds Abbey, Seneschal of Aquitaine, b. at Allesley, Warwickshire 6 May 1262, d. 19 Feb. 1312/3. He. m. (1) at Braxted, Essex, or Blunham, Bedfordshire (by papal dispensation dated 15 July 1275 Isabel de Valence; m. (2) in or bef.1308 Isabel le Despenser, d. 4 (or 5) Dec. 1334, widow of Gilbert de Clare, Knt. She m. (3) sh. bef. 20 Nov. 1318) Ralph de Monthermer, Knt., 1st Lord Monthermer, sometime Earl of Gloucester and Hertford.

5.1 (by 1). William de Hastings, m. by contract dated 30 Sept. 1297 Eleanor Martin, d. 13 Dec. 1342. She m. (2) bef. 30 March 1318 Philip de Columbers, Knt., Lord Columbers.
5.2 (by 1). John de Hastings, 2nd Lord Hastings, lord of Abergavenny, d. 20 Jan. 1324/5. m. Juliane de Leyburn, d. 31 Oct., 1 or 2 Nov. 1367. She m. (2) Thomas le Blount, Knt., of Tibberton, Gloucestershire, Steward of the King=92s Household; (3) William de Clinton, Knt., Earl of Huntingdon.
5.3 (by 1). Joan de Hastings, died 1307, m. William de Huntingfield, of Huntingfield, Suffolk, d. sh. bef. 24 Sept. 1313.
5.4 (by 1). Elizabeth de Hastings, m. Roger de Grey, Knt., 1st Lord Grey of Ruthin, d. 6 March 1352/3.
5.5 (by 1). Margaret de Hastings, d. 7 July 1359, m. (1) William Martin, 2nd Lord Martin, b. about 1294 (aged 30 in 1324), d. sh. bef. 4 April 1326; (2) before 1 June 1326 Robert de Wateville, Knt., Lord Wateville, d. sh. bef. 6 May 1330.
5.6 (by 2). Hugh de Hastings, Knt., of Sutton Scotney, Hampshire, Steward to Queen Philippe of Hainault, Captain and Lieutenant of the King in Flanders, and, in right of his wife, of Gressenhall, Brisley, Elsing, and Weasenham, Norfolk, and Fenwick and Norton, Yorkshire, b. about 1310 (aged 24 in 1334), d. 21 July 1347. He m. bef. 18 May 1330 Margery Foliot, b. about 1312=963, d. 8 August 1349.
5.7 (by 2). Thomas de Hastings.

William married Margaret le Bigod, daughter of Roger "the Sheriff" le Bigod Earl of Norfolk and Ida Countess de Toeni. (Margaret le Bigod was born about 1184 in Thetford, Norfolk, England and died in 1247.)