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.

On January 15, 1601, he married Lady Elizabeth Stanley (1588–1633), the third and youngest daughter of Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby and Lady Alice Spencer. His wife was a great-great-granddaughter of Mary Tudor, Duchess of Suffolk. She, at one time, was third-in-line to succeed to the throne of England. However, she and her two older sisters were passed over for James VI of Scotland. They maintained their country seat at Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire and had five children:

1. Lady Alice Hastings (d. 1667), married Sir Gervase Clifton of Clifton Hall. No issue.
2. Lady Elizabeth Hastings, married Sir Hugh Calveley of Lea. No issue.
3. Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntington (1608–55), married Lady Lucy Davies (the poet Lucy Hastings). Had issue.
4. Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough (1610–66), died unmarried and without issue.
5. Lady Mary Hastings (1612–60), married Sir John Gerrard. Had issue.

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