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Warwick. He d. at Calstone, Wilts, 25, and was bur. 30 Sep. 1254, at Studley Priory, co. Warwick. Writ of extent 15 Oct. 1254. She d. in 1255, about 20 and before 28 July.
XVI. 1255.	George de Cantelou, only s. and h.; b. 29 Mar. 1252, at Abergavenny. He m. (cont. ratified by the King, 1 Sep. 1254) Margaret, da. of Edmund (de Lacy), Earl of Lincoln, by Alasia, da. of Manfredo, Marquis of Saluzzo. He was knighted 13 Oct. 1272, and had seizin of his lands 25 Apr. and 1 May 1273. He d. s.p., 18 Oct. 1273.[1] His widow was bur. in the Church of the Black Friars at Pontefract.
XVII. 1273.	John (Hastings), Lord Hastings, nephew and coh., being s. and h. of Sir Henry Hastings of Ashill, Norfolk, by Joan, sister and coh. of the last owner of Abergavenny. He was b. 6 May 1262, suc. his father in 1268/9,[2] and was sum. to Parl., 1295 to 1313, by writs directed "Johanni de Hastinges."[3] Writ of diem cl. ext., 28 Feb. 1312/3. See fuller account under "Hastings."
XVIII. 1313.	John (Hastings), Lord Hastings, s. and h., b. 30 Sep. 1286. He was sum. to Parl., 1313 to 1325, by writs directed "Johanni de Hastinges,"[3] and d. 1325. See fuller account under "Hastings."

Baronies by Writ, &c., 1734, pp. 61–96) it is stated that "It pleased King Henry III to create Sir William de Cantelupe Lord of Bergavenny, by his writ of summons to Parl, by the name of William Cantelupe of Bergavenny, chevalier, as by the name of his chiefest mannor and seigniory." There is, however, not the slightest proof of the existence of this writ, which (as the said William d. in 1254) would be many years earlier than the earliest writ on record.

1. His heirs were his sister Milicent, then of full age and wife of Eudes la Zouche, and his nephew John, the next owner of Abergavenny. Oswald Barron writes, "I question the accuracy of the form de Cantilupe; all my notes give Cantelowe or Cantlow as the accepted english version of this surname." Indeed Cantilupe has the air of being an anglicization of a lantinization rather than a real name. For some discussion on mediæval English names see vol. iii. Appendix C. V.G.
2. In 1301 he signed the letter to the Pope as "Johannes de Hastinges, dñs de Bergeveny." Considerable stress is laid on this fact in a small work by Bird, (see note "d" p. 19) at the end whereof is a statement, "That the Barony of Aburgavenny is a Barony by tenure." Any person, however, who looks at the list of these Barons (given in Nicolas, p. 762) will see how many of them were but feudal Lords of the place, whereof they wrote themselves "Domini." The very next Baron to Lord Hastings is Henry Percy, "dñs de Topclive," yet no one, probably, would contend that the Barony of the Percy family was styled "Topcliffe;" that of Lovel, "de Dakking" (i.e. Docking, in Norfolk); that of de Vere, "de Swanschaumpis," &c., &c. John de Hastings was undoubtedly styled "Dominus de Bergeveny," "Seigneur de Bergeveny," &c., in many contemporary documents, but doubtless only from that Castle being his chief residence.
3. As Nicolas points out (see post, p. 25, note "c") the word 'Bergavenny' never appears on any of the numerous writs issued to these two Barons. The Barony they held was that of "Hastings," which Barony in 1841 was allowed, with the precedence of the sitting in 1290, to Sir Jacob Astley, Bart., the junior coheir of the junior coheiress thereof.