Richard Hastings, Baron Welles
| Sir Richard Hastings | |
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| Spouse(s) |
Joan Welles, 9th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby Joan Romondbye |
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Issue
Anthony Hastings
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| Father | Sir Leonard Hastings |
| Mother | Alice Camoys |
| Died | 1503 |
| Buried | Greyfriars, London |
Sir Richard Hastings, Baron Welles (died 1503), was the son of Sir Leonard Hastings and a younger brother of William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings. He was a favourite of Edward IV, who granted him the lands of the baronies of Willoughby and Welles after he had married the heiress, Joan Welles. He fought at Tewkesbury. He died in 1503, and was buried at the Greyfriars, London.
Richard Hastings was the second son of Sir Leonard Hastings (1396 – 20 October 1455) and Alice Camoys, daughter of Thomas de Camoys, 1st Baron Camoys, by his first wife, Elizabeth Louches, the daughter and heiress of William Louches. He had three brothers and three sisters:
During the Wars of the Roses, Hastings was a committed supporter of the House of York. Shortly before 1 June 1470, he married Joan Welles, who was heir to her brother, Robert Welles, 8th Baron Willoughby de Eresby. Her inheritance was complicated by the fact that, as the result of an anti-Yorkist uprising in Lincolnshire, Joan Welles' father, Richard Welles, 7th Baron Welles, and her brother, Sir Robert, had been beheaded by order of Edward IV within a week of each other, her father on 12 March 1470, and her brother on 19 March. A month later, on 25 April 1470, the King seized Sir Robert Welles' lands, but on 1 June 1470, granted them to Joan and her now husband, Sir Richard Hastings, giving them licence to enter all the lands 'which on the death of her father and brother, both tenants-in-chief, should descend to her'. According to modern doctrine, Joan also inherited the baronies of Willoughby and Welles after her brother's execution.
A year later, on 3 May 1471, Hastings fought for the victorious Yorkists at the Battle of Tewkesbury, and was knighted by Edward IV. In 1475 his elder brother, William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, was with the King in France, and Hastings was appointed, as deputy for his brother, surveyor of the office of Constable of Nottingham Castle, as well as magistrate of several forests, chases and parks in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire.
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