The garden houses a monument built by the Hastings family dedicated to Francis, Marquis of Hastings, also Governor of Malta.

It is believed the manor house at the centre of the moat was " Pynchester ", a building owned by the Hastings family in the 16th century.

Fairhaven has its own school department, with three elementary schools ( Leroy L. Wood, East Fairhaven, and Rogers, which is named for H. H. Rogers and his family ), one middle school ( Elizabeth Hastings Middle School ), and Fairhaven High School, which also accommodates some high school students from neighboring Acushnet.

Among those from Warwick was the Nathan Hastings family who settled in Windham, Vermont, in 1806.

But on the death of Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, William de Valence's son, the castle passed through marriage to the Hastings family.

Wace's reference to oral tradition within his own family suggests that his account of the preparations for the Conquest and of the Battle of Hastings may have been reliant not only on documentary evidence but also on eyewitness testimony from close relations — though no eyewitnesses would have been still alive when he began work on the text.

Joseph Hall came of a large family, being one of twelve children born to John Hall, agent in Ashby-de-la-Zouch for Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon.

She is also partly selfish, wanting Neville to marry her son to keep the jewels in the family ; she's blissfully unaware however, that Tony and Neville despise each other, and that Constance is in fact planning to flee to France with Hastings.

Constance despises her cousin Tony, she is heir to a large fortune of jewels, hence her aunt wants her to remain in the family and marry Tony ; she is secretly an admirer of George Hastings however.

In 1788 he acquired the estate at Daylesford, Gloucestershire, including the site of the medieval seat of the Hastings family.

The town and castle came into the possession of the Hastings family in 1464 and William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings enhanced its fortifications from 1473.

St. Helen's contains notable memorials to various members of the Hastings family and others, and a rare 300 year old finger pillory which may have been used to punish people misbehaving in church.

His father, Sir Leonard Hastings, had owned a modest estate in Leicestershire and Gloucestershire, where the family had long been established.

On April 14, 1474 Hastings acquired the manorial right to Kirby from the Pakeman family, although he had rented it for some years previous to this.

In 1636, the Hastings families sold castle and estates in Kirby and Braunstone to the Winstanley family.

Moira's toponym is derived from the Irish earldom of Moira, one of the titles of the Hastings family, which held castle.

The former local colliery, Rawdon Colliery, also bore a Hastings family name.

His family lived for a time in both Hastings and Tauranga, but in 1913, settled in Riwaka, near Motueka.

The family claimed descent from Raoul de Trenchant, a knight and one of the close companions of William the Conqueror who fought alongside him at the Battle of Hastings.

They had no family or friends present, just a couple of witnesses whom they had asked in Hastings.

Hastings ' father was Sir Leonard Hastings ( c. 1396 – 20 October 1455 ), a member of the English gentry who moved his seat to Leicestershire from Yorkshire where the family had long been established.

Rollo's descendant William, Duke of Normandy, became king of England in 1066 in the Norman Conquest culminating at the Battle of Hastings, while retaining the fiefdom of Normandy for himself and his descendants.

The Chews are descendants of " de Cheux ," who accompanied William the Conqueror in the Battle of Hastings ( 1066 ), and as a reward for his military service, received land grants in Somersetshire, England.

Following the Battle of Hastings, the invading Normans and their descendants formed a distinct population in Britain, as Normans controlled all of England, parts of Wales ( the Cambro-Normans ) and, after 1130 parts of southern and eastern Scotland, following David I's conquest, and from 1169, vast swaths of Ireland ( the Hiberno-Normans ).

Post, McKim, Mead, and White, Charles B. Atwood, Carrère and Hastings, Warren and Wetmore, Horace Trumbauer, John Russell Pope, Addison Mizner were all employed by the descendants of " Commodore " Cornelius Vanderbilt, who built only very modestly himself.

A competent, matter-of-fact man with an extensive knowledge of the English aristocracy and no imagination, George provides a steady contrast to Hastings.

In the Georgian era, patronage of such seaside places ( such as nearby Brighton ) gave it a new lease of life so that, when the time came with the reform of English local government in 1888, Hastings became a County Borough, responsible for all its local services, independent of the surrounding county, then Sussex ( East ); less than one hundred years later, in 1974, that status was abolished.

Hastings is situated where the sandstone beds, at the heart of the Weald, known geologically as the Hastings Sands, meet the English Channel, forming tall cliffs to the east of the town.

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

John Digweed ( born 1 January 1967 in Hastings, England ) is an English DJ, record producer and actor.

* 1066 – Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.

These favours were instrumental in the submission of the English church and people following the Battle of Hastings.

Richard died during the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last English king to die in battle ( and the only English king to do so on English soil since Harold II at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 ).

Nineteen days later the Normans, themselves descended from Norsemen, invaded England and defeated the weakened English army at the Battle of Hastings.

** George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon, English nobleman ( d. 1604 )

* August 29 – John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, medieval English nobleman and soldier ( d. 1375 )

It faces France across the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury ; east of Kent's administrative capital Maidstone ; and north-east along the coastline from Dungeness and Hastings.

The Battle of Hastings occurred on 14 October 1066 during the Norman conquest of England, between the Norman-French army of Duke William II of Normandy and the English army under King Harold II.

The English army had fought two other major battles, at Gate Fulford and Stamford Bridge, less than three weeks before the Battle of Hastings.

The latter resulted in the destruction of Harald Hardråda's Viking army, but also affected the English army's battle-worthiness at Hastings.

Hastings marks the first known use of the crossbow in battle in English history.

William rested his army for two weeks near Hastings, waiting for the English lords to come and submit to him.

The Battle of Hastings had a tremendous influence on the English language.

The following battle, the Battle of Bannockburn, is considered by contemporary scholars to be the worst defeat sustained by the English since the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

On the 14th October 1066, Harold II, the last Saxon king of England was killed at the battle of Hastings and the English army defeated, by William the Conqueror and his army.

Among these were the teeth of a reptile / mammal hybrid, Plagiaulax dawsoni, " found " in 1891 ( and whose teeth had been filed down in the same way that the teeth of Piltdown man would be some 20 years later ), the so-called " shadow figures " on the walls of Hastings Castle, a unique hafted stone axe, the Bexhill boat ( a hybrid seafaring vessel ), the Pevensey bricks ( allegedly the latest datable " finds " from Roman Britain ), the contents of the Lavant Caves ( a fraudulent " flint mine "), the Beauport Park " Roman " statuette ( a hybrid iron object ), the Bulverhythe Hammer ( shaped with an iron knife in the same way as the Piltdown elephant bone implement would later be ), a fraudulent " Chinese " bronze vase, the Brighton " Toad in the Hole " ( a toad entombed within a flint nodule ), the English Channel sea serpent, the Uckfield Horseshoe ( another hybrid iron object ) and the Lewes Prick Spur.