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Hastings, George (1486 - 1543/4)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1486 (born between this year and 1488)
Death Date: 1544-03-24

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Stafford, Anne ( - )
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1509-12
    Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Offspring

Primary Title

  • 3rd Baron Hastings (of Hastings)

Titles

  • 18th Earl of Huntingdon
    Assumed: 1529-12-08
    Vacated: 1543/4-03-24
  • 3rd Baron Hastings (of Hastings)
    Assumed: 1506-11-04 (succeeded to title between this date and 8 Nov. 1506)
    Vacated: 1543/4-03-23
  • Baron Hastings (of Hungerford)
    Assumed: 1506-11-04 (succeeded to title between this date and 8 Nov. 1506)
    Vacated: 1543/4-03-24
  • Knight of the Bath
    Assumed: 1501-11-17
    Vacated: 1543/4-03-24
  • 6th Baron Botreaux
    Assumed: 1533-07-10
    Vacated: 1543/4-03-24
  • 5th Baron Hungerford
    Assumed: 1533-07-10
    Vacated: 1543/4-03-24
  • Baron Moleyns
    Assumed: 1533-07-10
    Vacated: 1543/4-03-24

General Lands Note

Licence to enter lands 3 Dec. 1507; livery of mother's lands 10 July 1533

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Privy Councillor, England
Keeper of Parks, Leicestershire 1507 -12 -3 'Lee,' 'Frythe,' 'Beaumond Leys,' 'Baron' 'Tooloo' and 'Shedley' in Hinckley Parks
Master of Game and Master Forester, Rutland 1507 -12 -3
Parker, Rutland 1507 -12 -3
Steward, Leicestershire 1507 -12 -3 Honour also included lands in Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire
Steward, Leicestershire 1509/10 -2 -8
JP, Leicestershire 1515 1543/4

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Stoke Poges Manor House, Buckinghamshire
    Mother's estate
  • Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire
    Patrimony
  • Hastings Place, London (city-county)
    Thames Street, by Paul's Wharf. Patrimony

Lands

  • Leicestershire: Asby de la Zouch & Barrow upon Soar Manors
    Patrimony
  • Leicestershire: Evington Manor
    Acquired: 1527-07-19
    Granted
  • Oxfordshire: Stanlake & Broughton Manors
    Divested: 1537-10-20
    Alienated to Thomas, Baron Cromwell
  • Rutland: 'Lee alias Lee Field' Manor, Rutland Forest
    Patrimony
  • Somerset: 'Corry Malett' Manor
    Divested: 1532-10-14
    Granted to Anne Boleyn
  • Somerset: Gournay Court, West Harptree
  • Sussex: Hastings Castle, Honour, Lordship, Barony & Rape
    Patrimony

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Abbot's House, Bardney, Bardney, Lincolnshire Lord Hastings' Performer

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Lord Hastings' Performer Hastings, George (1486 - 1544) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VII [1485–1509]. 2 vols. London: HMSO, 1914--16
  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII [1509--47]. 21 vols and Addenda (2 vols). London: HMSO, 1864--1932
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus. North Somerset and Bristol. Harmondsworth, Midd: Penguin Books, 1973
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, et al. Buckinghamshire. 1960. London: Penguin Books, 2000