House of Hastings

E363477

English noble family

The House of Hastings was an English noble family that held prominent titles and influence, including the earldom of Huntingdon, during the late medieval and early modern periods.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
House of Hastings canonical	4

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	English noble family ⓘ
associatedCounty	Huntingdonshire ⓘ Leicestershire ⓘ
associatedMonarch	Edward IV of England ⓘ Elizabeth I of England ⓘ Henry VII of England ⓘ
coatOfArms	Or, a maunch gules ⓘ
country	Kingdom of England ⓘ
dynasticConnection	connected by marriage to the House of Grey ⓘ connected by marriage to the House of Pole ⓘ connected by marriage to the House of Talbot ⓘ
governedTerritory	honour of Huntingdon ⓘ lordships in Leicestershire ⓘ
heldTitleFrom	Earl of Huntingdon from 1529 ⓘ
heldTitleUntil	Earl of Huntingdon until 1789 ⓘ
historicalRole	Tudor-era magnates ⓘ participants in the Wars of the Roses ⓘ supporters of Edward IV of England ⓘ
involvedIn	Elizabethan court politics ⓘ English Reformation politics ⓘ
language	Early Modern English ⓘ Middle English ⓘ
nobleTitleHeld	Baron Botreaux ⓘ Baron Hastings ⓘ Baron Hungerford ⓘ Earl of Huntingdon ⓘ 1st Earl of Pembroke ⓘ surface form: Earl of Pembroke
notableEventInHistory	execution of William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, in 1483 ⓘ
notableMember	Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon ⓘ George Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon ⓘ Baron Hastings of Loughborough ⓘ surface form: Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon ⓘ Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon ⓘ William Lord Hastings ⓘ surface form: William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings
periodOfProminence	early modern period ⓘ late medieval period ⓘ
politicalAlignment	Tudor court faction ⓘ House of York ⓘ surface form: Yorkist
region	England ⓘ
religion	Protestant Christianity ⓘ surface form: Protestantism Roman Catholicism ⓘ
seatOrMainResidence	Ashby-de-la-Zouch Castle ⓘ Kirby Muxloe Castle ⓘ
socialClass	peerage of England ⓘ
status	extinct noble line in the male line for the earldom of Huntingdon ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: House of Hastings
Description of subject: The House of Hastings was an English noble family that held prominent titles and influence, including the earldom of Huntingdon, during the late medieval and early modern periods.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Earl of Huntingdon → linkedToDynasty → House of Hastings ⓘ

John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke → nobleFamily → House of Hastings ⓘ

Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon → memberOf → House of Hastings ⓘ

Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon → memberOfNobleFamily → House of Hastings ⓘ