John Hastings (1347 - 1375)

Born 29 Aug 1347 in Kent, England

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Plantagenet) Hastings — married May 1359 in Queen's Chapel, Reading, Berkshire, England

Died 16 Apr 1375 at age 27 in France

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Biography

"In May 1359, at the age of eleven, John Hastings had been married to Margaret (b. 1347), the twelve-year-old daughter of Edward III, but she died late in 1361. Now in 1368, a man of twenty-one, the earl married Anne (b. 1355), daughter and sole heir of the legendary soldier, Sir Walter Mauny. Anne was only thirteen in 1368 and her husband left her in England while he pursued a military career overseas." (Ref: ODNB)

Sir John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, K.G., died April 1375. He was survived by his wife Anne, and their two-year-old son, John ... now 3rd Earl of Pembroke. Tragically, his son was killed during a tournament in Woodstock on 13 Dec 1389.[1]

Sources

• "Royal Ancestry" 2013, Douglas Richardson Vol. I. page 89
• "Royal Ancestry" 2013, Douglas Richardson Vol. III. page 261
• "Royal Ancestry" 2013, Douglas Richardson Vol. IV. page 266

JOHN DE HASTINGS, K.G., 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Lord of Wexford and Abergavenny, etc., son and heir, born at Sutton Valence, Kent 29 August 1347. He married (1st) MARGARET (Plantagenet) OF WINDSOR, daughter of Edward III, King of England, by Philippe, daughter of William III le bon, Count of Hainault, Holland, And Zeeland, Lord of Friesland. She was born at Windsor Castle, Berkshire 20 July 1346. They had no issue. He married (2nd) by dispensation dated 1 July 1368 ANNE DE MAUNY. daughter and heiress of Walter de Mauny, K.G., Lord Mauny. She was born about 1356. They had one son, John, Knt. [Earl of Pembroke]. SIR JOHN DE HASTINGS, 2nd Earl of Pembroke died 16 April 1375. His widow, Anne, Countess of Pembroke, died 3 April 1384.

• "Notices of the Hastings family," (1864). Norfolk Archaeology or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to the Antiquities of the County of Norfolk, (Vol. 6, pp. 79). Norfolk and Norwhich Archaeological Society. Norwhich: Cundall, Miller and Leavins. Google Books.

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)
• Beltz, George. Memorials of the Order of the Garter (William Pickering, London, 1841) Page 173-6

John Hastings was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.