Hugh Hastings I
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Sir Hugh Hastings I was an English administrator and soldier. He fought for Edward III in the first phases of the Second War of Scottish Independence and the Hundred Years' War. His largely surviving
St Mary's church the Hastings brass geograph.org.uk 890940
Gascon campaign of 1345
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The Gascon campaign of 1345 was conducted by Henry, Earl of Derby, as part of the Hundred Years' War. The whirlwind campaign took place between August and November 1345 in Gascony, an English-controll
Hugh Hastings I
…he served in the comitiva (retinue) of the Earl of Pembroke during the Breton campaign. He was serving under the Earl of Pembroke again during the Aquitanian campaign of 1345, under the ultimate leadership of the Earl of Derby. According to the French chronicler Jean Froissart, Hugh was present for Derby's victory in the…
A battle between French and English armies, as imagined by a contemporary chronicler
Henry of Lancaster, Earl of Derby
Miniature from Froissart's Chronicle illustrating his fanciful account of a messenger from Auberoche being fired back into the castle by a trebuchet.
A contemporary portrait of the Duke of Normandy (later King of France)