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Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings

Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings, KB PC (26 November 1466 – 8 November 1506) was an English peer.

Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings
Born26 November 1466
Kirby Muxloe Castle, Leicestershire, England
Died8 November 1506
NationalityEnglish
OccupationPeer
SpouseMary Hungerford (m. 1478-1506)
Parent(s)Sir William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, Katherine Neville
RelativesCecily (half-sister), Sir William (brother), Sir Richard (brother), George (brother), Anne (sister), Elizabeth (sister)

Origins

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Edward Hastings was born in Kirby Muxloe Castle, Leicestershire[citation needed] to Sir William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings and Katherine Neville, the daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and Alice Montagu, the daughter of Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury. At the time of the marriage Katherine Neville was the widow of William Bonville, 6th Baron Harington (1442–1460), beheaded after the Battle of Wakefield, by whom she had a daughter, Cecily.[1] Edward Hastings had three brothers, Sir William, Sir Richard, and George, and two sisters, Anne, who married George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, and Elizabeth.[2] His brothers William and Richard were alive at the time he made his will on 4 November 1506.[3]

Career

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Edward Hastings was invested as a Knight of the Bath in 1475. He was appointed a Privy Councillor in 1504.[4]

Marriage and Family

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Between 1478 and 1480, he married Mary Hungerford (born c. 1468 – died before 10 July 1533), daughter of Sir Thomas Hungerford of Rowden and Anne Percy, daughter of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, and Eleanor Neville.[5] Edward Hastings and Mary Hungerford had two sons and a daughter:[6]

While he was still only a youth 16 years of age, his father William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, incurred the enmity of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and on 13 June 1483 was arrested at a council meeting on Richard's orders, and beheaded without trial,[10] an event dramatised in Shakespeare's Richard III.

Edward Hastings died, aged 39, on 8 November 1506, and is said to have been buried at the Blackfriars, London.[11] On 1 May 1509 his widow married Sir Richard Sacheverell (d. 14 April 1534), but had no issue by him. She died before 10 July 1533, and was buried at Leicester.[12]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Richardson I 2011, p. 257.
  2. ^ Horrox 2004; Richardson II 2011, p. 371; Nicolas I 1826, pp. 368–75.
  3. ^ Nicolas II 1826, pp. 475–7.
  4. ^ Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition by Douglas Richardson
  5. ^ Richardson II 2011, pp. 372, 431.
  6. ^ Richardson II 2011, p. 372.
  7. ^ Cross 2004; Richardson II 2011, p. 374.
  8. ^ Nicolas II 1826, pp. 475–7.
  9. ^ Richardson IV 2011, p. 94.
  10. ^ Richardson II 2011, p. 371.
  11. ^ Richardson II 2011, p. 373.
  12. ^ Cokayne 1926, p. 375.

References

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  • Cokayne, George Edward (1926). The Complete Peerage. Vol. VI. London: St Catherine Press. pp. 374–5.
  • Cross, Claire (2004). Hastings, George, first earl of Huntingdon (1486/7-1544). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  • Nicolas, Nicholas Harris (1826). Testamenta Vetusta. Vol. I. London: Nicholas and Son.
  • Nicolas, Nicholas Harris (1826). Testamenta Vetusta. Vol. II. London: Nicholas and Son.
  • Horrox, Rosemary (2004). Hastings, William, first Baron Hastings (c.1430–1483). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
  • Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Vol. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) ISBN 1449966373
  • Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Vol. II (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) ISBN 1449966381
  • Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Vol. IV (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) ISBN 1460992709

Ancestry

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Peerage of England
Preceded by Baron Hastings
1483–1506 		Succeeded by
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