Elizabeth Stanley, Countess of Huntingdon
Elizabeth Stanley, Countess of Huntingdon (6 January 1588 – 20 January 1633) was an English noblewoman and writer who was third in line of succession to the English throne.
She was the wife of Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon.
She was also styled Lady Hastings of Hungerford and Lady Botreaux as her husband held both of these titles in addition to the Earl of Huntingdon.
John of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon
John of Scotland( or John de Scotia), 9th Earl of Huntingdon and 7th Earl of Chester( c. 12076 June 1237), sometimes known as" the Scot", was an Anglo- Scottish magnate, the son of David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon by his wife Matilda of Chester, daughter of Hugh de Kevelioc.
John married
Elen ferch Llywelyn, daughter of Llywelyn the Great, in about 1222.
John became Earl of Huntingdon in 1219 on the death of his father.
On the death of John's maternal uncle, Ranulph de Blondeville, Earl of Chester, on 26 October 1232, the Earldom of Chester was inherited by John's mother Matilda( Maud) of Chester( Ranulph's eldest sister).
Less than a month later with the consent of the King, she gave an" inter vivos" gift of the earldom to her son John who became Earl of Chester by right of his mother.
He was formally invested by King Henry III as Earl of Chester on 21 November 1232.
He became Earl of Chester in his own right six weeks later on the death of his mother in January 1233.
John died childless on 6 June 1237, aged 30.
He too, like his uncle Ranulph before him, left four sisters as his co-heirs.
They agreed to share the estates between them, and to make the husband of the eldest sister Christian, William de Forz, Earl of Chester and Huntingdon by right of his wife.
However Henry III decided that the earldoms should be annexed to the crown" lest so fair a dominion should be divided among women".
In 1246, Henry bought the honour( estate) of Chester from John's four sisters.
The earldom of Chester was recreated for Simon de Montfort in 1264, and the earldom of Huntingdon was recreated in 1337 for William de Clinton.
Simon II de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton
Simon II de Senlis, 4th Earl of the Honour of Huntingdon and Northampton( c. 1098 – 1153) was an Anglo- Norman nobleman.
He was the son of Simon I de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon- Northampton and Maud, Countess of Huntingdon.
He married Isabel, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester.
He was prominent in The Anarchy, fighting for Stephen of England in 1141 at the Battle of Lincoln.
He continued to support Stephen's side; R. H.
C. Davis calls him' staunch' and' consistently loyal' and surmises that Simon calculated that if the Empress Matilda won, his earldom of Northampton would be taken over by David of Scotland.
Simon was rewarded by becoming Earl of Huntingdon.
He died in 1153 just before Henry II of England took over, whereupon the King restored the Earldom of Huntingdon- Northampton to his ally Malcolm IV of Scotland
Sir James Langham, 2nd Baronet
Sir James Langham, 2nd Baronet( c. 1621 – 22 August 1699) of Cottesbrook, Northamptonshire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1662.
Langham was the eldest son of Sir John Langham, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary Bunce.
He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1638, and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1640 to train for the law.
He was knighted in 1660 and appointed Sheriff of Northamptonshire for 1664.
In 1656, Langham was elected Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire in the Second Protectorate Parliament.
He was elected MP for Northampton in 1659 for the Third Protectorate Parliament.
In 1661, Langham was elected Member of Parliament for Northampton in the Cavalier Parliament but the election was declared void on 13 June.
Langham was again elected MP for Northampton in February 1662 but the election was also declared void on 26 April 1662.
Langham inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1671.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1678.
Langham married four times, his first wife being Mary Alston, the daughter of Sir Edward Alston, his second wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon, his third wife Penelope, the daughter of John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare and his fourth wife Dorothy, the daughter of John Pomeroy of Devon.
He died at Kensington and was buried at Cottesbrooke, Northamptonshire, leaving no male children.
He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his brother William.
His daughter married Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington.
Hans Francis Hastings, 12th Earl of Huntingdon
Hans Francis Hastings, 12th Earl of Huntingdon( 14 August 1779 – 9 December 1828) was a British Royal Navy officer and peer.
He was sometimes known by his second Christian name, Francis, Earl of Huntingdon.
Hamilton Boyle, 6th Earl of Cork
Hamilton Boyle, 6th Earl of Cork and 6th Earl of Orrery( 3 February 1729 – 17 January 1764) was the son of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Lady Henrietta Hamilton.
He inherited the titles of 6th Earl of Cork and Orrery and 3rd Baron Boyle of Marston from his father in 1762.
He served in the Parliament of Great Britain as Member of Parliament( MP) for Warwick between 1751 and 1762, and represented Charleville in the Irish House of Commons between 1759 and 1760.
He was unmarried and was succeeded by his brother.
George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon
George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon( 1540 – 30 December 1604) was an English nobleman.
He was a son of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, and Catherine Pole.
He was a younger brother of Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, and older brother of Francis Hastings.
He succeeded Henry as the 4th Earl.
He was High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1571 and knight of the shire( MP) for Derbyshire in 1562 and Leicestershire in 1584 – 1587.
He was invested as a knight in 1565.
They lived at Gopsall and then Loughborough, both in Leicestershire.
He was succeeded by his grandson Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon.
Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon
Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon (18 January 1609 – 13 February 1656), was the son of Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon, and Lady Elizabeth Stanley, the daughter of Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby, and Alice Spencer.
He married Lucy, daughter of Sir John Davies, on 7 August 1623.
He was MP for Leicestershire in 1625 and again in 1628–29.
Ferdinando's family seat, Ashby de la Zouch Castle, was destroyed by Oliver Cromwell's troops in the English Civil War in 1646.
He died of smallpox at age 47 and was succeeded by his son, Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon.
There is a monument to him in St Helen's Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon
Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, KG( 151420 June 1561) was the eldest son of George Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon and Anne Stafford, Countess of Huntingdon, the ex-mistress of Henry VIII.
His maternal first cousins included Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford and Henry Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex.
He was born in Ashby- de- la- Zouch, Leicestershire.
He was tutored by John Leland during his youth.
His mother, Anne Stafford, Countess of Huntingdon had an affair with Henry VIII in 1510, the discovery of which led her husband to remove her to a convent and her brother to leave court in a rage, refusing to stay under Henry's roof.
As late as 1513, Anne was the courtier who received the second most expensive New Year's gift from Henry, indicating that their relationship continued until then.
However, there are no contemporary references to the possibility of Francis being an illegitimate son of the Tudor monarch.
His father was created the first Earl of Huntingdon by Henry VIII of England on 3 November 1529.
He was awarded stewardship over two abbeys in 1530.
Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon
Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon (24 April 1586 – 14 November 1643), was a prominent English nobleman and literary patron in England during the first half of the seventeenth century.

Question: What is the date of death of Ferdinando Hastings, 6Th Earl Of Huntingdon's father?
Answer: 14 November 1643