Sir Edward Hastings (died 1437) was an English landowner and soldier who fought in the Hundred Years' War but spent much of his life and fortune on unsuccessful claims to hereditary honours.
After service abroad in Normandy during 1415 and 1416, in the retinue of Thomas Beaufort, Earl of Dorset, in 1417 he challenged the costs due to Grey and was ordered to pay the huge sum of 987 pounds.
[1][3] When he refused to pay, claiming that to do so would be to accept Grey's rights, he was imprisoned in the Marshalsea and remained there, sometimes in irons like a common criminal, until shortly after January 1434.
[1] Over 400 years after his death, having suffered imprisonment and impoverishment rather than renounce his rights, a court decided in 1841 that he had in fact been Baron Hastings ever since 1396 and that the arms and title he claimed had therefore been inherited by his descendants.
[2] First married to Muriel Dinham, daughter of Sir John Dinham (died 1428), of Hartland, and his first wife Eleanor Montagu (died 1396), they had a son John Hastings, born about 1412,[1] who in 1438 inherited his father's estates at Fenwick, Grimston and Wellow in Nottinghamshire and Mossley in Yorkshire,[2] but never made any claim to the arms or titles that had occupied so much of father's life.