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Shirley Collins (born 1935), English folk singer. Born and raised in Hastings. [37] Steve Cook (born 1991), footballer. Lives in St Leonards. [38] Dame Catherine Cookson (1906–1998), popular novelist. Lived and worked for much of her life in Hastings. [39] Anthony Crosland (1918–1977), Labour politician, government minister. Born in St ...
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. Hastings Old Town is in a sheltered valley between the East Hill and West Hill (on which the remains of the Castle stand).
John Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings (6 May 1262 – February 1313), was an English landowner, soldier and administrator who was one of the Competitors for the Crown of Scotland in 1290 and signed and sealed the Barons' Letter of 1301. [1]
Over the centuries since the Battle of Hastings, many people in England have claimed that an ancestor fought on the Norman side. While there is sound evidence of extensive settlement in England by people of Norman, Breton and Flemish origin after 1066, the fact remains that the names of only 15 men who were with Duke William at the battle can ...
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John Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings (29 September 1287 – 20 January 1325) was a medieval English ... He served in the First War of Scottish Independence under King ...
The peace was shattered by the ascent of Mercian power; the chronicler Simeon of Durham records the defeat of the gens Hestingorum (the people of Hastings) by Offa of Mercia in 771. [16] [17] Mercian overlordship was ended when they were defeated in 825, by Egbert of Wessex, at the Battle of Ellandun. Egbert went on to annex the territories of ...
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