John Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings

[2] He was born in 1262 at Allesley,[3] near Coventry in Warwickshire, the eldest son of Henry de Hastings (c. 1235 – c. 1268) who was summoned to Parliament by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester as Lord Hastings in 1263.

He also inherited many Cantilupe estates including Aston Cantlow in Warwickshire, one of that family's seats.

He fought from the 1290s in the Scottish, Irish and French wars of King Edward I and held the offices of Seneschal of Gascony and Lieutenant of Aquitaine simultaneously.

[5] He signed and sealed the Barons' Letter of 1301 to Pope Boniface VIII, protesting against papal interference in Scottish affairs.

He and his first wife Isabel de Valence were buried (together with his parents) in the Hastings Chapel of the Greyfriars Monastery in Coventry, Warwickshire (founded circa 1234), commemorated by effigies.

Paternal arms of John de Hastings: Or, a maunch gules [ 11 ]
Seal of John Hastings appended to the Barons' Letter, 1301 . The arms are unidentified, but are blazoned: On a cross between four fleurs-de-lys five fleurs-de-lys ; [ 5 ] like his brother he did not seal the Letter with his paternal arms