Sir Hugh Hastings Knight
- Born: After 1328, Elsing, Mitford, Norfolk, England
- Marriage: Margaret de Everingham 141
- Died: Sep 1369, kalkwell Hill, Calais France 141
- Buried: Friar's Church, Doncaster, Yorkshire 141
 Information about this person:
• Background Information. 141
Sir Hugh de Hastines, next brother [after Sir John de Hastinges, de jure Lord Hastings, dsp 31 Aug 1393] and heir presumptive. He accompanied the Duke of Lancaster in his expedition to Normandy and Brittany in June 1356. He was with the King in his invasion of France in October 1359, being in the retinue of the said Duke. He went to Gascony in December 1366, in the retinue of the Duke of Lancaster, who was taking out reinforcements for the expedition of the Prince of Wales to Castile. He was taken, prisoner by the Spaniards in-a skirmish at Vitoria, 20 March 1366/7, and was ransomed or exchanged in the following autumn. He served with the same Duke in his raid into Picardy and Caux in July 1369.
Sir Hugh de Hastines is said to have married Margaret de Everingham. He died. v.f. it is said in 1369 *. Her will dated (it is said) 25 November 1375.
* Blomefield says that he died in 1369 at "Kalkwell Hill" (near Calais, where the Duke was encamped in Sep 1369), and was buried in the Friar's Church at Doncaster.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VI, p. 355
Hugh married Margaret de Everingham, daughter of Sir Adam de Everingham Baron and Joan de Deiville Lady of Egmanton.141 (Margaret de Everingham was born about 1330 in Laxton, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England and died after 25 Nov 1375 in England 141.)
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