Hugh Hastings

Also known as: sir Hugh Hastings · Family: England · Role: knight · First appears: Henry IV 8

Life events

• c. 1460 · Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York and seven named supporters were killed, and his army was defeated.(Henry VI 63 · 📍 Wakefield)
  • With: Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York John Mortimer Hugh Mortimer David Hall Thomas Neville William Aparre Thomas Aparre
  • “But when he was in the plaine field betwéene his castell and the towne of Wakefield, he was inuironed on euerie side, like fish in a net, so that though he fought manfullie, yet was he within halfe an houre slaine and dead, and his whole armie discomfited: with him died of his trustie fréends, his two bastard vncles, sir Iohn and sir Hugh Mortimers, sir Dauie Hall, sir Hugh Hastings, sir Thomas Neuill, William and Thomas Aparre, both brethren; and two thousand and eight hundred others”

Henry IV 8

• elder kin: Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester “The chiefest capteines that accompanied the earle in this iournie were these: first, his nephew sir Hugh Hastings, sir Thomas Colleuill, sir William Lisle”

Henry VI 63

• friends with Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York “with him died of his trustie fréends, his two bastard vncles, sir Iohn and sir Hugh Mortimers, sir Dauie Hall, sir Hugh Hastings, sir Thomas Neuill, William and Thomas Aparre, both brethren;”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.