Biography of Henry Hastings 1235-1269

Paternal Family Tree: Hastings

Maternal Family Tree: Mathilde Unknown Countess Évreux 1120-1169

Around 1235 Henry Hastings was born to Henry Hastings [aged 37] and Ada Dunkeld. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

On 9th August 1250 [his father] Henry Hastings [aged 52] died at Blunham Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.

Before 6th May 1262 Henry Hastings [aged 27] and Joan Cantilupe were married. They were fifth cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

On 6th May 1262 [his son] John Hastings 13th Baron Abergavenny 1st Baron Hastings was born to Henry Hastings [aged 27] and [his wife] Joan Cantilupe. He married (1) before 1282 his sixth cousin Isabel Valence Baroness Bergavenny Baroness Hastings, daughter of William de Valence 1st Earl Pembroke and Joan Munchensi Countess Pembroke, and had issue (2) before 1310 his third cousin once removed Isabel Despencer Baroness Hastings and Bergavenny, daughter of Hugh "Elder" Despencer 1st Earl Winchester and Isabella Beauchamp, and had issue.

Battle of Lewes

On 14th May 1264 the army of Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Chester [aged 56] including Gilbert "Red Earl" Clare 7th Earl Gloucester 6th Earl Hertford [aged 20], Henry Hastings [aged 29] and Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave [aged 26] defeated the army of King Henry III of England [aged 56] during the Battle of Lewes at Lewes [Map].

King Henry III of England, his son, the future, King Edward I of England [aged 24], Humphrey Bohun 2nd Earl Hereford 1st Earl Essex [aged 60], Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall [aged 55], John "Red" Comyn 1st Lord Baddenoch [aged 44], Philip Marmion 5th Baron Marmion [aged 30] and John Giffard 1st Baron Giffard Brimpsfield [aged 32] were captured. John Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey [aged 33], John Balliol [aged 56], Robert Bruce 5th Lord Annandale [aged 49], Roger Leybourne [aged 49] and William de Valence 1st Earl Pembroke fought for the King. Guy Lusignan was killed. Fulk IV Fitzwarin [aged 44] drowned. Bishop Walter de Cantelupe [aged 73] was present and blessed the Montfort army before the battle.

Battle of Evesham

                    On 4th August 1265 the army loyal to King Henry III of England [aged 57], led by his son the future King Edward I of England [aged 26], supported by Gilbert "Red Earl" Clare 7th Earl Gloucester 6th Earl Hertford [aged 21], Warin Basingburne and John Giffard 1st Baron Giffard Brimpsfield [aged 33] defeated the rebel army of Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Chester [aged 57] at the Battle of Evesham.
                
                    Roger Leybourne [aged 50] fought and reputedly saved the King's life.
                
                    Adam Mohaut rescued the King.
                
                    Alan de Plugenet of Kilpec fought for the King.
                
                    Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Chester was killed. Earl of Leicester, Earl Chester forfeit. His son Henry Montfort [aged 26] was also killed. 
                
                    Hugh Despencer [aged 41] was killed by Roger Mortimer 1st Baron Mortimer of Wigmore [aged 34]. Baron Despencer extinct. It may not have been created as a hereditary barony.
                
                    Simon Beauchamp [aged 31], Ralph Basset [aged 50], William Devereux [aged 46], Hugh Troyes, Richard Trussel, Peter Montfort [aged 60], William Mandeville, William Crepping, William Birmingham, Guy Balliol and Thomas Astley [aged 50] were killed. Henry Hastings [aged 30], Humphrey Bohun [aged 44], Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave [aged 27], John Vesci, John Fitzjohn and Guy Montfort Count Nola [aged 21] were captured.
                
                    John Vesci was wounded and taken prisoner.

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Battle of Chesterfield

On 15th May 1266 Henry "Almain" Cornwall [aged 30] and John Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey [aged 35] fought for the King at Chesterfield, Derbyshire [Map] during the Battle of Chesterfield. Henry Hastings [aged 31], John Clinton, Roger Mandeville, John Eyvil, Baldwin Wake [aged 28] all fought on the rebel side. The rebel Robert Ferrers 6th Earl of Derby [aged 27] was captured.

Dictum of Kenilworth

On 31st October 1266 the Dictum of Kenilworth was issued. The Dictum was a peace agreement between King Henry III of England [aged 59] and the rebels who were besieged in the impregnable Kenilworth Castle [Map]. The committee included: Bishop Walter Branscombe [aged 46], Archbishop Walter Giffard [aged 41], Bishop Nicholas Ely, Gilbert de Clare 8th Earl Gloucester 7th Earl Hertford, Humphrey Bohun 2nd Earl Hereford 1st Earl Essex [aged 62], Philip Basset [aged 82], John Balliol [aged 58], Robert Walerand, Alan Zouche [aged 63], Roger Somery 2nd Baron Dudley [aged 76], and Warin Bassingbourne.

Robert Ferrers 6th Earl of Derby [aged 27] and Henry Hastings [aged 31] were fined seven times their annual income. The Dictum, however, required the rebels to pay their fines before being restored to their lands; something of a Catch-22 since if they weren't restored to their lands, they would have no income to pay the fine.

Around 1269 Henry Hastings [aged 34] died.

In 1271 [his former wife] Joan Cantilupe died.

[his father] Henry Hastings and [his mother] Ada Dunkeld were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] David Dunkeld 8th Earl Huntingdon and [his grandmother] Matilda Gernon Countess Huntingdon. They were half second cousin twice removed. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.