Sir Hugh Hastings Knight

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Sir Hugh de Hastinges, of Sutton Scotney, next brother, after Thomas, dsp 11 Jan 1332/3, and heir, being 2^nd son of John, 1^st Lord Hastinges, by his 2^nd wife, Isabel, both abovenamed. He was aged 24 and more at his mother's death in 1334. On 28 Mar 1335 the King took his homage, and he had livery of a moiety of the manor of Sutton Scotney which his mother had held in chief. He fought at the battle of Siuys, 24 Jun 1340, in the retinue of the Earl of Derby. On 28 Jan 1341/2, he had pardon for acquiring for life from Laurence, Earl of Pembroke, the lordship of Oswardebeck, Notts.

Sir Hugh de Hastinges was summoned to a Council, 25 Feb 1341/2, by writ directed Hugoni de Hastinges. On 13 Oct 1343 he had licence to grant away the manor of Sutton Scotney. In April 1344 he occurs as Steward to the Queen. He accompanied the Earl of Derby to Gascony in June 1345, being in the retinue of the Earl of Pembroke. On 20 Jun 1346 he was appointed Captain and Lieutenant of the King in Flanders, and was commissioned to raise forces in that country for the war with France: early in August he brought a large body of Flemings (60,000, it is said) to France, to join the King; and was at the battle of Crécy, 26 August of that year. On 14 May 1347 he was urgentiy requested to rejoin the King before Calais, and was there in the following June.

Sir Hugh de Hastinges married, before 18 May 1330, Margery, sister and coheir, and in her issue sole heir, of Richard Foliot, of Gressenhall and Weasenham, Norfolk, [3rd Lord Foliot] (who died s.p. and a minor, 29 May 1325), and elder daughter of Sir Richard Foliot 2nd Lord Foliot, of the same, by Joan, younger daughter and coheir of Sir William de Breouse, Lord of Bramber and Gower. On 13 June and 11 Dec 1330 Hugh and Margery had livery of her purparty of the lands of her grandmother, Margery, widow of Jordan Foliot. Sir Hugh de Hastinges died 29 or 30 July 1347, and was buried in Elsing Church, Norfolk: brass. The manors, which he and his wife had held jointly at his death, were released to her, Elsing and Weasenham, 7 Sep 1347, and Norton and Fenwick, 5 October following. She, who was aged 12 or 13 in 1325, died 8 August, and was buried 30 August 1349, in the Furnivalle Chapel, in the Church of the Friars Minor at Doncaster.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VI, pp. 352-354, Vol. XIV, p. 372

Hugh married Margery Foliot, daughter of Richard Foliot and Joan de Braose.¹⁴¹ (Margery Foliot was born about 1312 in Gressenhall, Mitford, Norfolk, England,¹⁴¹ died on 8 Aug 1349 in England ¹⁴¹ and was buried on 30 Aug 1349 in Furnivalle Chapel, Church of the Friars Minor, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England ¹⁴¹.)