Earl of Castlehaven was a title in the

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, created on 6 September 1616. It was held in conjunction with the Barony of Audley (created 1312 in the

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), the Barony of Audley of Orier (created with the earldom in the Peerage of Ireland), and the Barony of Audley of Hely (created for the third Earl in 1633, in the Peerage of England). Upon the

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and execution of the second earl for

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, under the

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in 1631, he forfeited his English peerage, but not his Irish titles; this was because his English barony of Audley had been created for ''heirs general'', but his Irish earldom and barony was an entailed honour protected by statute '' De Donis''. His son, the third earl, was created ''Baron Audley of Hely'' on 3 June 1633 by letters patent, with the precedence of his grandfather, in an attempt to restore to him the original ''Barony of Audley''. However, this was deemed insufficient to do so; a bill was passed in Parliament in 1678 which allowed him to inherit the original Barony despite the attainder. Within months he was barred from the House of Lords as a Roman Catholic under the Second

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. With the death of the eighth earl, the Earldom of

Castlehaven Castlehaven () is a civil parish in County Cork, Ireland. It is located approximately 75 km south west of Cork City on the coast. The civil parish includes the town of Castletownshend and also contains the hamlets of Rineen and Tragumna. T ...

and the Baronies of Audley of Hely and Audley of Orier became extinct. The Barony of Audley created by writ of 1312 devolved upon his nephew,

George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley George Thicknesse, later Thicknesse-Touchet, 19th Baron Audley (4 February 1757 – 24 August 1818) was an English peer. George Thicknesse-Touchet was the son of Captain Philip Thicknesse and Lady Elizabeth Tuchet, daughter of James Tuchet, 6t ...

Earls of Castlehaven (1616)

George Tuchet, 1st Earl of Castlehaven George Tuchet, 1st Earl of Castlehaven ( – 1617), was the son of Henry Tuchet, 10th Baron Audley (died 1563) and his wife, née Elizabeth Sneyd. Career He succeeded his father as 11th Baron Audley and 8th Baron Tuchet on 30 December 1563, ...

(1551–1617) *

Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (1593 – 14 May 1631; also spelled ''Mervin, Touchet''), was an English nobleman who was convicted of rape and sodomy and subsequently executed. He is the only member of parliament to be executed for a ...

(1593–1631) *

James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven ( - 11 October 1684) was the son of Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven and his first wife, Elizabeth Barnham (1592 - ). Castlehaven played a prominent role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms that took plac ...

(c. 1617–1684) *

Mervyn Tuchet, 4th Earl of Castlehaven Mervyn Tuchet, 4th Earl of Castlehaven (died 2 November 1686) was the third son of Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven, and his first wife, Elizabeth Barnham (1592 - ). He succeeded his brother James Tuchet as Earl of Castlehaven on 11 Octobe ...

(died 1686) *

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(died 1700) *

James Tuchet, 6th Earl of Castlehaven James Tuchet, 6th Earl of Castlehaven (died 12 October 1740) was the son of James Tuchet, 5th Earl of Castlehaven and his wife Anne Pelson. He succeeded his father as Earl of Castlehaven and Baron Audley on 9 August 1700. He married, on 14 May 172 ...

(died 1740) *

James Tuchet, 7th Earl of Castlehaven James Tuchet, 7th Earl of Castlehaven (15 April 1723 – 6 May 1769) was the son of James Tuchet, 6th Earl of Castlehaven and his wife, née Elizabeth Arundell. He succeeded his father as Earl of Castlehaven and Baron Audley on 12 October 1740. ...

(1723–1769) *

John Tuchet, 8th Earl of Castlehaven John Talbot Tuchet, 8th Earl of Castlehaven (2 August 1724 – 22 April 1777) was the son of James Tuchet, 6th Earl of Castlehaven, and his wife, née Elizabeth Arundell. He succeeded his brother as Earl of Castlehaven and Baron Audley on 6 May 1 ...

(1724–1777)

References

;Additional sources * Cokayne, George Edward, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant'', A. Sutton, Gloucester, 1982. riginally 13 volumes, published by The St. Catherine Press Ltd, London, England, from 1910 to 1959; reprinted in microprint: 13 vol. in 6, Gloucester: A. Sutton, 1982* Cokayne, George Edward, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant: Addenda and Corrigenda'', Hammond, Peter W., Sutton Publishing, Ltd., Gloucestershire, England, 1998. * Herrup, Cyntha B., ''Earls of Castlehill, Co-Mayo'', Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999. {{DEFAULTSORT:Castlehaven Extinct earldoms in the Peerage of Ireland County Mayo Noble titles created in 1616