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Maurice Eustace (other)
Maurice Eustace may refer to: * Maurice Eustace (priest) (d. November 1581) * Maurice Eustace (Lord Chancellor) (d.1665), previously MP for Athy and County Kildare * Sir Maurice Eustace, Baronet (d.1693) Jacobite MP for Blessington * Maurice Eustace (Harristown MP) (d.1703), MP for Knocktopher (Parliament of Ireland constituency) and Harristown (Parliament of Ireland constituency) Harristown was a borough constituency in the Irish House of Commons until 1800, representing the borough of Harristown in the barony of Naas South, County Kildare. History In the Patriot Parliament Patriot Parliament is the name commonly ... See also * Eustace (surname) {{hndab, Eustace, Maurice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Eustace (priest)
Maurice Eustace (executed November 1581) was an Irish soldier, secretly ordained a Roman Catholic priest, and hanged as a traitor. Life He was the eldest son of Sir John Eustace of Castlemartin, County Kildare; they were an old Anglo-Irish family, a branch of the FitzEustace dynasty. Following the Desmond Rebellions, the family's loyalty to the Crown was suspect, as Viscount Baltinglass, the head of the family, was one of the principal rebels. Maurice was sent to be educated at the Jesuit college at Bruges in Flanders. There, after the completion of his secular studies, he desired to enter the Society of Jesus. His father, however, wrote to the superiors of the college to send him home. Maurice returned to Ireland. After a brief stay, during which he tried to dissuade his father from opposing his vocation, he went back to Flanders. His old masters, at the college of Bruges, advised him to return to Ireland and devote himself in the world to the service of religion. Short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Eustace (Lord Chancellor)
Sir Maurice Eustace (c. 1590 – 22 June 1665) was an Irish landowner, politician, barrister and judge of the seventeenth century who spent the last years of his career as Lord Chancellor of Ireland. This was an office for which he felt himself to be entirely unfit, and in which he was universally agreed to be a failure. Family background Eustace was born in about 1590, at Castlemartin, County Kildare, eldest of the three sons of John FitzWilliam Eustace, Constable of Naas (died 1623). Little is known of his mother, whose name is thought to be Catherine d'Arcy. Of his sisters, one, whose name is variously given as Elizabeth or Elinor, married Edmund Keating and had two sons, Oliver and John Keating, Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, while another, Alice, married Robert Cusack of Rathgar Castle, but was apparently not the mother of his son Adam Cusack. The Eustaces of Castlemartin were a branch of the prominent "Old English" FitzEustace family who held the title Viscount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Maurice Eustace, Baronet
Sir Maurice Eustace, 1st Baronet (died 15 October 1693) was an Irish gentleman, the only holder of the Eustace Baronetcy of Castle Martin in County Kildare, which was created for him in the Baronetage of Ireland on 23 December 1685. Family The baronet was the son of John Eustace of Castlemartin, of a branch of the old Anglo-Irish family of FitzEustace whose titles included Viscount Baltinglass and Baron Portlester. John Eustace's father Maurice was elder son of William Eustace, whose younger son John (of Harristown) was the father of Sir Maurice Eustace, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. The Lord Chancellor's brother William was father of a third Sir Maurice Eustace (died 1703), who was MP for Knocktopher (1665–6) and for Harristown (1692–5). The baronet married Margaret (died 1738), daughter of Brigadier Sir Thomas Newcomen of Sutton, Dublin and his wife Frances, daughter of Sir William Talbot, 1st Baronet. His daughters Frances and Maria Henrietta, died unmarried. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Eustace (Harristown MP)
Sir Maurice Eustace (1637 - 13 April 1703) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Eustace was the nephew of Lord Chancellor Sir Maurice Eustace and a cousin of Sir Maurice Eustace, Baronet. His parents were William Eustace of Castlemartin, the Lord Chancellor's younger brother, and Anne Netterville, daughter of Sir Robert Netterville of County Meath. As the Lord Chancellor had no legitimate children William and his brother were the legal heirs to his great fortune, but the Chancellor had two natural children for whom he had promised to provide. Eventually the Chancellor made a will by which William inherited the great bulk of the property including the estate of Harristown, County Kildare, and the Eustace townhouse, Damask, on present-day Eustace Street in central Dublin.Somerville-Woodward, Robert & Nicola Morris. ''17 Eustace Street - a history'' Timeline Research Ltd. 2007. He sat in the Irish House of Commons as a Member of Parliament for Knocktopher between 1664 and 1666. He then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knocktopher (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency)
Knocktopher was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800, based on the parliamentary borough of Knocktopher in County Kilkenny. History In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II of England, James II, Knocktopher was represented with two members. Members of Parliament *1661–1666 Sir Patrick Weymes (died and replaced 1661 by James Weymes) and Oliver Jones (Irish MP), Oliver Jones (died and replaced 1664 by Maurice Eustace (Harristown MP), Sir Maurice Eustace, junior) 1689–1801 Notes References Bibliography * * {{coord missing, County Kilkenny Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) Historic constituencies in County Kilkenny 1800 disestablishments in Ireland Constituencies disestablished in 1800 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harristown (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency)
Harristown was a borough constituency in the Irish House of Commons until 1800, representing the borough of Harristown in the barony of Naas South, County Kildare. History In the Patriot Parliament Patriot Parliament is the name commonly used for the Irish Parliament session called by King James II during the Williamite War in Ireland which lasted from 1688 to 1691. The first since 1666, it held only one session, which lasted from 7 May ... of 1689 summoned by James II, Harristown was represented with two members. Members of Parliament, 1684–1801 1689–1801 Notes References Bibliography * * {{coord missing, County Kildare Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) Historic constituencies in County Kildare 1684 establishments in Ireland 1800 disestablishments in Ireland Constituencies established in 1684 Constituencies disestablished in 1800 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
