Sir Nicholas Hastings and unknown wife had two sons, Sir Ralph and William
Sir Ralph de Hastings, in 1329, third of Edward the third, had free warren of Allerston, in Yorkshire; and in 1337, was sheriff of the county, and Governor of the Castle, of York. William de Wyville released to him in 1343, all his right in Slingsby, Yorkshire; and he had license the following year to make a Castle of his house at that place.
He married Margaret, daughter of Sir William de Herle and sister and heir of Sir Robert deherle of Kirby in Leicestershire, and by her was father of an only son and heir, another Sir Ralph de Hastins.
At the Battle of Nevil's Cross, near Durham, Oct 17, 1346, when David Bruce, King of Scotland, was taken prisoner, Sir Ralph was present, and received a wound, of which he died in a few days, and was interred, pursuant to the directions in his will, at Sulbey Abbey, Northamptonshire, of which he was patron.
