Hastings

The Hastings were an English baronial house seated at Abergavenny on the Welsh march. Henry de Hastings was summoned as Lord Hastings in 1263; his son John inherited the Abergavenny estates in 1273 and was recognized as Baron Hastings in 1290, when he also claimed the crown of Scotland.

John's grandson Laurence was created Earl of Pembroke in 1339 and died in 1348. His son John served Edward III in Aquitaine but was captured by the Castilian fleet at La Rochelle in 1372 and died in 1375 after his ransom was paid.

The last earl, another John, inherited as an infant and was killed in a joust at Woodstock in 1389 at seventeen, leaving no children. The earldom became extinct, while the Barony of Hastings passed to a cousin's line.