Henry Talbot (landowner)

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 Mount Talbot 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 (red frame).

Robert Talbot of Templeogue d. 1616

William Talbot 1st Bt. Talbot d. 1633

Alison Netterville

Henry

Margaret Talbot d. 1663

Richard Talbot 1st Earl Tyconnell

William Talbot d. 1689 Derry

James Talbot d. 1691 Aughrim

Elizabeth

Mary

Marriage and children

He married Margaret (died 1663), the daughter of Sir William Talbot, 1st Baronet of Carton, County Kildare and his wife Alison Netterville, and became the brother-in-law of Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, an influential figure at Court who assisted in demonstrating his innocence.[1]

1. William, who became a colonel in the Irish army and was killed at the Siege of Derry;[2][3]
2. James, who became a colonel in the Irish army and was killed at the Battle of Aughrim;
3. Elizabeth, who married John Talbot, a landowner in County Dublin;
4. 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]

Notes and references

1. Lenihan p.56
2. Burke 1879, p. 1565,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 Kin 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.

• Burke, Sir Bernard (1879), A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 (6th ed.), London: Harrison
• 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

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)