Image: Edmund de Hastings

Description: Seal of Edmund Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings (post 1262-circa 1314) "of Inchmahome" (anciently Inchmacholmok), Perthshire, Scotland. On 29 December 1299 he was summoned to Parliament as "Lord Hastings". Shortly after 1292 he married Isabella Comyn, widow of William Comyn of Badenoch and daughter of Walter Comyn, Earl of Menteith in right of his wife. He was at the Siege of Caerlaverock Castle in June 1300, together with his brother, when their armorials were blazoned in verse in the Roll of Caerlaverock. He signed and sealed (with this seal) the Barons' Letter of 1301 to the pope, in which he is called Dominus de Enchemehelmock ("Lord of Inchmacholmok", the chief castle of the Earldom of Menteith) with his seal bearing the legend S(igillum): Edmundi: Hasting: Comitatu: Menetei[2] ("seal of Edmund Hastings Earl of Menteith"). The seal shows not his paternal arms of Hastings, but rather the arms of w:Muireadhach I, Earl of Menteith (d. 1213), the Earl at the start of the age of heraldry (c.1200-1215): Barry wavy of six argent and azure (G. E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, n.s., Vol.VI, p.383, note i) (given elsewhere as or and gules). He died without issue when the title became extinct.
Title: Edmund de Hastings
Credit: Some feudal lords and their seals
Author: Howard de Walden
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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