HASTINGS, Sir Leonard (d.1455), of Kirby Muxloe, Leics.

3rd s. and event. h. of Sir Ralph Hastings† (d.1397) of Slingsby, Yorks., by his 2nd w. Maud, prob. da. of John (d.1375), Lord Grey of Rotherfield; She is generally and erroneously said to have been one of the daughters and coheiresses of Sir Thomas Sutton (d.c.1384) of Sutton-on-Hull, Yorks.: HMC Hastings, i, p. xi. This error probably arises through a confusion with the marriage of our MP’s distant cousin, Sir Edmund Hastings*. For the evidence of her place in the Grey genealogy: Plantagenet Ancestry ed. Richardson and Everingham, 229. yr. bro. and h. of Sir Richard Hastings*. m. Alice, da. of Thomas, Lord Camoys (d.1421), by his 2nd w. Elizabeth (1371-1417), da. of Edmund Mortimer, earl of March (d.1381), and wid. of Sir Henry Percy (d.1403), 4s. inc. William, Lord Hastings, and Sir Ralph Hastings† of Harrowden, Northants., 3da. Dist. Leics. 1439; Kntd. by Feb. 1446.