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) See also

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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 ...
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