Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke
Laurence de Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke (20 March 1319 – 20 August 1348) was a
.Family
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
Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
with whom he had one son:
- John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1347–1375)
Death
He died at Abergavenny Castle in 1348 and is buried in the Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny.
References
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54433. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ 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.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]
Further reading
- . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.