Biography of Henry Hastings 5th Earl Huntingdon 1586-1643

Paternal Family Tree: Hastings

Maternal Family Tree: Anne Pakenham 1485-1544

Before 24 Apr 1586 [his father] Francis Hastings (age 26) and [his mother] Sarah Harrington (age 21) were married. He the son of [his grandfather] George Hastings 4th Earl Huntingdon (age 46) and [his grandmother] Dorothy Port Countess Huntingdon.

On 24 Apr 1586 Henry Hastings 5th Earl Huntingdon was born to Francis Hastings (age 26) and Sarah Harrington (age 21) at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. He was educated at Gray's Inn.

On 15 Jan 1601 Henry Hastings 5th Earl Huntingdon (age 14) and Elizabeth Stanley Countess Huntingdon (age 13) were married. She the daughter of Ferdinando Stanley 5th Earl of Derby and Alice Spencer Countess Derby (age 51). They were fourth cousins. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

In 1602 William Brydges 4th Baron Chandos (age 50) died. His son Grey Brydges 5th Baron Chandos (age 22) succeeded 5th Baron Chandos of Sudeley. [his sister-in-law] Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven (age 21) by marriage Baroness Chandos of Sudeley.

On 27 Jun 1602 John Egerton 1st Earl Bridgewater (age 23) and [his sister-in-law] Frances Stanley Countess Bridgewater (age 19) were married. She the daughter of Ferdinando Stanley 5th Earl of Derby and [his mother-in-law] Alice Spencer Countess Derby (age 53). She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

In 1604 Melbourne Castle [Map] and its grounds were bought by Henry Hastings 5th Earl Huntingdon (age 17). Between 1610 and 1637 was destroyed and its stones re-used.

On 30 Dec 1604 [his grandfather] George Hastings 4th Earl Huntingdon (age 64) died. His grandson Henry Hastings 5th Earl Huntingdon (age 18) succeeded 5th Earl Huntingdon, 10th Baron Botreaux, 9th Baron Hungerford, 7th Baron Moleyns and 7th Baron Hastings. [his wife] Elizabeth Stanley Countess Huntingdon (age 16) by marriage Countess Huntingdon.

Around 1605 [his daughter] Elizabeth Hastings was born to Henry Hastings 5th Earl Huntingdon (age 18) and [his wife] Elizabeth Stanley Countess Huntingdon (age 16).

In 1606 [his daughter] Alice Hastings Lady Clifton was born to Henry Hastings 5th Earl Huntingdon (age 19) and [his wife] Elizabeth Stanley Countess Huntingdon (age 17).

On 28 Feb 1607 Grey Brydges 5th Baron Chandos (age 27) and [his sister-in-law] Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven (age 26) were married. She the daughter of Ferdinando Stanley 5th Earl of Derby and [his mother-in-law] Alice Spencer Countess Derby (age 57). She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

The Huntingdon Peerage Chapter IX Ferdinando Sixth Earl of Huntingdon. [his son] FERDINANDO, sixth Earl of Huntingdon, heir and successor of Henry the fifth Earl (age 21), was born at Ashby [Map], January 11th, 1608. In March, 1627, he was returned to serve in Parliament for the county of Leicester, and two years after was joined with his father in the Lieutenancy of the counties of Leicester and Rutland. By indenture, dated May, 1638, he and his brother [his son] Henry, in consideration of the sum of 4,50l. granted, to John Earl of Bridgewater (age 29) and Thomas Davies, a moiety of the rectory of Mould, otherwise Mouldesdale, in Flintshire. On the 13th of November, 1641, his father being then still living, he had summons to Parliament amongst the barons of the realm; and in 1643 he succeeded to the family honours. He married [his future daughter-in-law] Lucy, daughter and sole heir to Sir John Davys (age 38), of Englefield, Berks, Knt. (Premier Serjeant at Law to James the First, and Charles the First, as also Solicitor, and afterwards Attorney General in Ireland, and finally Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench,) by his wife Lady Eleanor (age 18), youngest daughter of George Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven (age 57), and, settling at Donnington Park, had by her four sons; Henry, John, Ferdinando, and [his grandson] Theophilus, born after the decease of his three brothers; and likewise six daughters, Alice, Eleanor, both of whom died young; Elizabeth, married to [his grandson-in-law] Sir James Laughan, of Cottesbroke, in Nottinghamshire, Bart, being his second wife, and dying without issue; Lucy, who died unmarried; Mary, espoused to Sir William Joliffe, of Caverswell Castle in Staffordshire, Knt.; and lastly Christiana.

On 18 Jan 1608 [his son] Ferdinando Hastings 6th Earl Huntingdon was born to Henry Hastings 5th Earl Huntingdon (age 21) and [his wife] Elizabeth Stanley Countess Huntingdon (age 20).

On 28 Sep 1610 [his son] Henry Hastings 1st Baron Loughborough was born to Henry Hastings 5th Earl Huntingdon (age 24) and [his wife] Elizabeth Stanley Countess Huntingdon (age 22) at Loughborough.

On 27 May 1617 John Egerton 1st Earl Bridgewater (age 38) was created 1st Earl Bridgewater. [his sister-in-law] Frances Stanley Countess Bridgewater (age 34) by marriage Countess Bridgewater.

On 07 Aug 1623 [his son] Ferdinando Hastings 6th Earl Huntingdon (age 15) and [his daughter-in-law] Lucy Davies Countess Huntingdon (age 10) were married. He the son of Henry Hastings 5th Earl Huntingdon (age 37) and [his wife] Elizabeth Stanley Countess Huntingdon (age 35). He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

On 22 Jul 1624 Mervyn Tuchet 2nd Earl Castlehaven (age 31) and [his sister-in-law] Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven (age 44) were married at Harefield. She by marriage Countess Castlehaven. She the daughter of Ferdinando Stanley 5th Earl of Derby and [his mother-in-law] Alice Spencer Countess Derby (age 75). He the son of George Tuchet 1st Earl Castlehaven and Lucy Mervyn Baroness Audley and Tuchet. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

Before 1628 [his step-father] Thomas Edmondes (age 64) and [his mother] Sarah Harrington (age 62) were married.

1533 Buggery Act

On 14 May 1631 Mervyn Tuchet 2nd Earl Castlehaven (age 38) was beheaded at Tower Hill [Map] for the unnatural crime of sodomy in accordance with the 1533 Buggery Act, committed with his page Laurence (or Florence) FitzPatrick, who confessed to the crime and was executed; and assisting Giles Browning (alias Broadway), who was also executed, in the rape of his wife [his sister-in-law] Anne, Countess of Castlehaven (age 51), in which Lord Castlehaven was found to have participated by restraining her. His son James Tuchet 3rd Earl Castlehaven (age 14) succeeded 3rd Earl Castlehaven, 3rd Baron Audley of Orier in England. He didn't succeed to his father's English titles Baron Audley of Heighley in Staffordshire and Baron Tuchet forfeit as a result of his father's attainder.

In 1633 [his wife] Elizabeth Stanley Countess Huntingdon (age 44) died.

On 14 Nov 1643 Henry Hastings 5th Earl Huntingdon (age 57) died. His son [his son] Ferdinando Hastings 6th Earl Huntingdon (age 35) succeeded 6th Earl Huntingdon, 11th Baron Botreaux, 10th Baron Hungerford, 8th Baron Moleyns and 8th Baron Hastings. [his daughter-in-law] Lucy Davies Countess Huntingdon (age 30) by marriage Countess Huntingdon.

Ancestors of Henry Hastings 5th Earl Huntingdon 1586-1643

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Hastings 1st Baron Hastings 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Hastings 2nd Baron Hastings Baron Botreaux, Hungerford and Moleyns 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Neville Baroness Bonville and Hastings 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: George Hastings 1st Earl Huntingdon 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Hungerford 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Hungerford Baroness Hastings, 4th Baroness Hungerford, 5th Baroness Botreaux and 2nd Baroness Moleyns 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Percy 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Francis Hastings 2nd Earl Huntingdon 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Stafford 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Stafford 2nd Duke of Buckingham 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Beaufort 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Stafford Countess Huntingdon 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers

Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Woodville Duchess Buckingham Duchess Bedford 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

GrandFather: George Hastings 4th Earl Huntingdon 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Geoffrey Pole

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Pole 8 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Edith St John 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Pole 1st Baron Montagu 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: George York 1st Duke of Clarence 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret York Countess of Salisbury 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Neville Duchess Clarence 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Catherine Pole Countess Huntingdon 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: George Neville 4th and 2nd Baron Bergavenny 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: George Neville 5th and 3rd Baron Bergavenny 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Fenne Baroness Bergavenny

Great x 2 Grandmother: Jane Neville Baroness Montagu 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Fitzalan 17th Earl of Arundel 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Fitzalan Baroness Bergavenny 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Woodville Countess Arundel 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Father: Francis Hastings 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: John Port

GrandMother: Dorothy Port Countess Huntingdon

Henry Hastings 5th Earl Huntingdon 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Harrington

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Harrington

Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Culpepper

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Harrington

Great x 1 Grandfather: John Alexander Harrington

GrandFather: James Harrington

Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Moton of Peckleton in Leicestershire

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Moton

Mother: Sarah Harrington

Great x 3 Grandfather: William IV Sidney

Great x 2 Grandfather: Nicholas Sidney

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Sidney

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Brandon

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Brandon

Great x 4 Grandmother: Ada Calthorpe

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Brandon

GrandMother: Lucy Sidney

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Pakenham

Great x 2 Grandfather: Hugh Pakenham

Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Pakenham

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Royal Ancestors of Henry Hastings 5th Earl Huntingdon 1586-1643

Ancestors of Henry Hastings 5th Earl Huntingdon 1586-1643