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 was present at the council of Lanercost when James, steward of Scotland, did homage. In 1307 he was serving in Scotland, was at Ayr in July, and in September was ordered to march against Bruce (Cal. Documents relating to Scotland, iii. 15; cf. Fœdera, ii. 8, Record ed.) On 24 Oct. 1309 he was appointed seneschal of Aquitaine (Fœdera, iii. 184), but next year was once more serving in Scotland; there is a reference to Hastings as seneschal of Perigord in a letter calendared in the Hist. MSS. Comm. 4th Rep. (App. p. 386). Hastings is commonly said to have been summoned to parliament for the last time on 22 May 1313; most probably this summons was to his son, for according to one statement he died 28 Feb. 1313 (Complete Peerage, &c., i. 13, ed. G. E. C.), and the ‘inquisitio post mortem’ of his estates was held in the sixth year of Edward II, which ended 7 July 1313 (Cal. Inq. p.m. i. 251–2). He was buried in the Hastings chapel in the church of the Friars Minors at Coventry; Dugdale quotes an inscription which states that he died 9 March 1312 (Antiq. Warw. i. 183). On 7 Oct. 1314 the Bishop of Durham granted an indulgence of forty days to pray for Hastings's soul (Reg. Palat. Dunelm. i. 616, Rolls Ser.)

Hastings was evidently much trusted by Edward I and is highly spoken of. Langtoft calls him a ‘knight of choice’ (ii. 345); the writer of the song of Caerlaverock says: ‘In deeds of arms he was daring and reckless, in the hostel mild and gracious, nor was ever judge in eyre more willing to judge rightly.’ He had great wealth, and left land in ten counties besides in the marches of Wales and in Ireland. He married first, in 1275, Isabella, daughter and in her offspring heiress of William de Valence, earl of Pembroke; by her he had, with other offspring, John, third baron Hastings (see below), and Elizabeth, who married Roger, lord Grey of Ruthin [q. v.]; his first wife died 3 Oct. 1305 (, Antiq. Warw. i. 183). Hastings's second wife was Isabella, daughter of Hugh le Despenser (1262–1326) [q. v.], by whom he had two sons, Hugh [q. v.] and Thomas; after Hastings's death she married Ralph de Monthermer (Fœdera, iii. 789).

, third (1287–1325), was twenty-six years of age at his father's death. In 1306 he attended Queen Margaret to Scotland and served in the Scottish wars between 1311 and 1319; in 1320 he at first sided with the rebel lords, but afterwards joined the king at Cirencester. In 1323 he was governor of Kenilworth Castle, and died in 1325. He married Juliana, granddaughter and heiress of William de Leyburne, by whom he had one son Laurence, afterwards first earl of Pembroke [q. v.] ; his widow married (2) Thomas le Blount and (3) William de Clinton, earl of Huntingdon, and dying in 1350 was buried in St. Anne's Chapel in St. Augustine's Monastery, Canterbury (, Funerall Monuments, p. 259).

[Chronicles Edw. I and II (Rolls Ser.); Rishanger's Chronicle and the Annales Regni Scotiæ printed with it in the Rolls Ser.; Sir N. H. Nicolas's Song of Caerlaverock, pp. 56, 80, 295–8; Palgrave's Documents illustrative of Hist. of Scotland; Bain's Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, vols. ii. and iii.; Stevenson's Documents illustrating the Hist. of Scotland, 2 vols. (Chron. and Memorials of Scotland); Report on the Dignity of a Peer, iii. 53, 100, 112, 117, 123, 129, 167, 175, 181, 186, 194, 203, 207, 213; Rolls of Parliament, vol. i.; Parliamentary Writs, vol. i.; Rymer's Fœdera; Dugdale's Baronage, i. 575; Collins's On Baronies by Writ, pp. 133–5 (where it is contended that his only barony was that of Bergavenny); Nichols's Leicestershire contains many small references to his estates and a pedigree in iv. 477; Burton's Hist. of Scotland, vol. i.]  HASTINGS, JOHN, second (1347–1375), was only son of Laurence Hastings [q. v.], first earl, and Agnes, daughter of Roger Mortimer, earl of March. His father died in 1348, while he was little more than a year old, and during his minority his estates were managed by his mother. In 1369 he was admitted into the order of the Garter, in succession to the Earl of Warwick. In the same year he accompanied the Earl of Cambridge into France with an armed force destined to reinforce the Black Prince in Aquitaine. They landed at Saint Malo and proceeded to the capture of Bourdeille, and then to that of the Roche-sur-Yon, where he was knighted (Chandos Herald, 4612–36). He seems to have declined to serve under Sir John Chandos [q. v.], but being defeated by the French at Purnon, near Poitiers, he was glad to send to Chandos for assistance. After having made a raid into the province of Anjou he rejoined the Black Prince at Cognac, and proceeded with him to the siege and capture of Limoges. Having returned to England he was named, 20 April 1372, lieutenant of the king's forces in Aquitaine, and about that time proceeded to that destination with a fleet laden with forces and supplies. In attempting to relieve the siege of La Rochelle he encountered a Spanish fleet before that town, composed of ships heavier than his own. After a fight which lasted two days he was entirely defeated and taken prisoner 23 June. He was removed to