John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (* November 11, 1372; † 30 or December 31, 1389 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire ) was an English nobleman. He was the son of John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, and Anne, 2nd Baroness Manny, daughter and heiress of Walter de Mauny.
Life
John Hastings was born as the only son and heir of John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke on 11 November 1372, in which his father was captured at the Battle of La Rochelle in the same year. When he died on April 16, 1375 on the way back from captivity, John received his title as Earl of Pembroke, Baron Hastings and Lord Abergavenny. In addition, you shall appoint him in the same year, together with William de la Zouche to the heirs of William de Cauntelo.
With the joint guardianship over the first four years of the Earl of Pembroke and its possessions was posted on January 22, 1376 his mother Anne, 2nd Baroness Manny, and his grandmother Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, in charge. After his mother's death on April 3, 1384, he inherited the title of Baron Mauny addition and was given for the next five years in the care of his grandmother.
Probably already agreed to in 1376 with John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, a future connection to the House of Lancaster, after finally on June 24, 1380 Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire, the marriage between the Earl of Pembroke and Elizabeth Plantagenet, a daughter of John of Gaunt was closed with his first wife Blanche of Lancaster. However, the marriage did not last long and was named after the September 24, 1383, before John was old enough to execute it canceled. Probably around the year 1385 there was another marriage, this time with Philippe, daughter of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March and Philippa Plantagenet, 5th Countess of Ulster, daughter and heiress of Lionel of Antwerp, 1st duke of Clarence.
At the age of nine years, the Earl of Pembroke was knighted on August 15, 1381 Richard II. In addition, he was - also still a minor - appointed Chief Commissioner of Array for Suffolk and on May 5, 1387 to Steward of Bury St. Edmunds on April 26, 1385. He died on 30 or 31 December in 1389 just 17 years of wounds that he sustained in a tournament accident in Woodstock, where the royal court was staying in this year during the Christmas festivities. In the Historia Vitae et Regni Ricardi Secundi is described that both the common people and the nobles mourned for him:
John Hastings was embedded in the Dominican Church in Hereford with his father to rest. The Franciscan friars of London, however, claimed that the Earl should be buried according to his will, in their Church. After lengthy litigation, the king ordered the reburial of the body in or around the March of the year 1391 or 1392, whereupon he henceforth rested in the choir of London's St. Francis Church. John Hastings left no heirs, and with his death the earldom reverted to the crown, while the barony of Hastings rested, and the barony Manny went out. The Honour and Lordship of Avergavenny went to his cousin William Beauchamp, which is then recorded in 1329 as 1st Baron Bergavenny.