Maud (Hastings) de Pecche (abt. 1221 - abt. 1265)

Born about 1221 in Ashill, Norfolk, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died about 1265 at about age 44 in London, England

Biography

Father Sir William de Hastings, Steward of the Royal Household & of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds^[1] b. b 1173, d. 1224

Mother Margaret le Bigod^[2]

Maud de Hastings was born circa 1221 at of Ashill, Norfolk, England.^[3]

She married Sir Gilbert Pecche, son of Sir Hamon Pecche and Eve, circa 1250; They had 2 sons (John; & Edmund) & an unknown number of daughters (including Margery, wife of Nicholas de Criel).^[4]

Maud de Hastings died circa 1265 at London, Middlesex, England.^[5]

Contemporary description

Complete Peerage refers us to an unusual contemporary description:^[6] The Liber Memorandum Ecclesie de Bernewelle (p.50) calls her, "illustrious by birth and still more illustrious by nature" (or "of character", the Latin is "genere quidem claram sed moribus multo clariorem").

Family

• Sir Gilbert Pecche d. 25 May 1291^[7]

Children

• John
• Edmund
• Margery

Death Complete Peerage explains:^[6]

"She d. 1264. or 1265."

"At the time of the troubles in the realm, so that she had to be bur. at St. Mary’s Overy (now Southwark Cathedral), and only her heart was taken to Barnwell (Liber . . . de Bernewelle, p. 50). By this marriage Gilbert had sons John and Edmund, whom he disinherited in favour of his eldest son by his 2nd marriage."

Sources

1. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 243-244.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 313-314.
3. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 315-316.
4. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 245.
5. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 329-330
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Cockayne, Gibbs, et al. Complete Peerage 2nd ed. Vol.10, under Pecche.
7. ↑ Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol.4 p.331, points out that the Liber Memorandum Ecclesie de Bernewelle (p.50) names Gilbert Pecche's wife with surname as "Mathildis de Hastinges". Complete Peerage points out that in 1254, "it was Gilbert Pecche who undertook, to the King’s Council, that Ada de Hastinges, sister of Henry de Hastinges, should not marry before the King’s return from abroad".