Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke
Laurence de Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke (20 March 1319 – 20 August 1348) was a Norman English nobleman and held the titles 1st Earl of Pembroke (4th creation), Baron Abergavenny and Baron Hastings under Edward II of England and Edward III of England.
Family[edit]
His father was John Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings and his mother Juliana Leybourne.[1] He was born at Allesley in Warwickshire and christened at Allesley on the same day.[citation needed] As a great-grandson of William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke, and having inherited through the female line a portion of the estates of the Valence earls, he was created (or recognized as) a new creation of the earl of Pembroke in October 1339.[2]
He married Lady Agnes Mortimer (1317 – 25 July 1368), the daughter of Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March with whom he had one son:
- John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1347–1375)
Death[edit]
He died at Abergavenny Castle in 1348 and is buried in the Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny.
References[edit]
- ^ Ormrod, W. M. (23 September 2004). "Leybourne, Juliana, countess of Huntingdon (1303/4–1367), noblewoman". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54433. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Pembroke, Earls of". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 79.
Further reading[edit]
- . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.