Henry Talbot (landowner)

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Sir Henry Talbot was a seventeenth-century Irish landowner and brother-in-law of Tyrconnell.


The Talbot family were part of the Old English community of The Pale which had remained Roman Catholic after the Irish Reformation. He possessed estates at and Templeogue in County Dublin. His father was Robert Talbot of Templeogue (d. 1616), who married Eleanor, a daughter of Henry Colley, of Carbury Castle, County Kildare and his wife Catherine Cusack.

Following the Restoration of Charles II, he was accused of treasonous participation in the Irish Confederate Wars of the 1640s. However he was acquitted after being found to be an "innocent Papist", allowing him to recover his estates which had been confiscated by the English Republic during the Cromwell era.

Family tree
Henry Talbot with wife, parents, and other selected relatives.[a]
Robert
Talbot
of
Templeogue
d. 1616		William
Talbot
1st Bt.
Talbot
d. 1634		Alison
Netterville
HenryMargaret
Talbot
d. 1663		Richard
Talbot
1st Earl
Tyconnell
William
Talbot
d. 1689
Derry		James
Talbot
d. 1691
Aughrim		ElizabethMary
Legend
XXXSubject of
the article		XXXTalbot baronets
of Carton		XXXEarls of,
Tyrconnell

Marriage and children[]

Talbot married Margaret (died 1662), the daughter of Sir William Talbot, 1st Baronet of Carton, County Kildare and his wife Alison Netterville. The marriage made him a brother-in-law of Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell,[1] an influential figure at court who assisted in demonstrating his innocence.

Henry and Margaret had four children, two sons:

  1. James, who became a colonel in the Irish army and was killed at the Battle of Aughrim
  2. William, who became a colonel in the Irish army and was killed at the Siege of Derry;[2][3]

—and two daughters:

  1. Elizabeth, who married John Talbot, a landowner in County Dublin
  2. Mary, who married Theobald Dillon, 7th Viscount Dillon

Two of his sons, William Talbot and James Talbot, served as Colonels in the Jacobite Irish Army during the War of the Two Kings. They were killed at the Siege of Derry (1689) and the Battle of Aughrim (1691) respectively. Of his daughters, Elizabeth married the County Dublin landowner John Talbot, who was also an active Jacobite; and Mary married Theobald Dillon, 7th Viscount Dillon.[4]

Death[]

Talbot died and was succeeded by his son James.

Notes, citations, and sources[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Also see the lists of siblings and children in the text.

Citations[]

  1. ^ Burke 1879, p. 1566, right column: "Sir Henry Talbot, Knt. of Templeogue, co. Dublin, and Mount Talbot, co. Roscommon, m. [married] Margaret, dau. [daughter] of Sir William Talbot, Bart of Cartown, co. Kildare and sister of Richard, Duke of Tyrconnell, and by her (who d. [died] 14 Dec. 1662) ..."
  2. ^ Burke 1879, p. 1566, right column, line 23: "William Talbot, esq. of Ballinamony, M.P. for Wexford 1649, in King James II's Parliament 1689, killed at the siege of Derry on King James'S side."
  3. ^ Macpherson 1775, p. 202, footnote: "... brigadier Talbot, formerly called Wicked Will, and nephew to Tyrconnell, taken, and dead and buried this day [26 June 1689 of his wounds."
  4. ^ Burke's Irish Landed Gentry (1912), page 689.

Sources[]

  • Burke, Sir Bernard (1879). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. 2 (6th ed.). London: Harrison. OCLC 972909415. – L to Z
  • Macpherson, James (1775). Original Papers; Containing the Secret History of Great Britain, from the Restoration to the Accession of the House of Hanover. To which are Prefixed Extracts from the Life of James II. Written by Himself. London: W Strahan and T Cadell. OCLC 1050258341.

Further reading[]

  • Lenihan, Pádraig (2014). The Last Cavalier: Richard Talbot (1631–91). Dublin: University of Dublin Press. ISBN 9781906359836.
  • Burke's Irish Landed Gentry (1912)
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