Coat of arms of Sir Edward Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings of Loughborough, KG

Edward Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings of Loughborough, KG PC (c. 1521 in

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, Leicestershire – 1572) was an English peer, the fourth son of

George Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon George Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon, KB (148824 March 1544) was an English nobleman. Family George Hastings, born in 1488 at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, was the son of Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings, and Mary Hungerford, daughter and heiress o ...

. He married Joane Harrington daughter of John Harrington of Bagworth, Leicestershire circa 1544. In 1545–1547 he represented Leicester in Parliament. He was

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and

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in 1550 and MP for Leicestershire from 1547 to 1553. He fought with his brother against the French which were between Boulogne and Calais. When

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came to the throne in July 1553, he used the fact that he had a commission from his relative, the

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, to raise 4000 infantrymen from Buckinghamshire for the service of Lady Jane Grey to go over in support of Mary. He was rewarded with the Office of Receiver of the honour of Leicester, a parcel of land in the

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and being made soon afterwards a Privy Councillor and

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. He was MP for

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from 1553 to 1555. He was so well thought of by King Philip of Spain that he was given a pension of 500 crowns of English money. He went with Lord Paget as an envoy to the Emperor for the purpose of inviting Cardinal Pole to England and in 1555 was elected one of the Knights Companions of the Order of the Garter. He became Lord Chamberlain of the Household on 25 December 1557 and Baron Hastings of Loughborough on 19 January 1558. When Mary died, he withdrew from public life and became very melancholy. He was imprisoned for hearing mass in 1561 but released on taking the Oath of Supremacy. He founded the hospital of

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, Buckinghamshire in April 1564. He lived at the Manor House in the centre of

and died in March 1572 at

. In his will, he mentions his natural son Edward, who was to be given the Manor of Michelcreche, Somerset when he came of age. He gave his manor of Bosworth to his nephew

Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, KG, KB (c. 153514 December 1595) was an English Puritan nobleman. Educated alongside the future Edward VI, he was briefly imprisoned by Mary I, and later considered by some as a potential successor to E ...

. He does not mention his wife in his will, leading to speculation that they may have been estranged. He was buried in the chapel he had built, called the Hastings chapel which forms part of the

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