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unusual facts about John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke


The Physician's Tale

In 1386 Elizabeth, the daughter of John of Gaunt, eloped to France with John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke.


John Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings

Hastings fought from the 1290s in the Scottish, Irish and French wars of King Edward I and was later Seneschal of Aquitaine.

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Baron Hastings (temp. Edward III, 1295 creation, also shown in the Gelre Armorial, c. 1390s) and in coats of arms derived from the Hastings one, e.g. Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (d. 1490).

Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March

He had a younger brother, Edmund Mortimer, and two sisters, Elizabeth, who married Henry 'Hotspur' Percy, and Philippa (1375-1401), who married firstly John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (d.1389), killed in a tournament at Woodstock Palace, secondly Richard de Arundel, 11th Earl of Arundel (1346-1397), beheaded in 1397, and thirdly, Sir Thomas Poynings.


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