Colonel Dudley Bagenal or Bagnall (c.1638 – 27 July 1712) was an Irish soldier, Jacobite politician and courtier. Bagenal was the eldest son of Colonel Walter Bagenal (great-grandson of

Dudley Bagenal Dudley Bagenal (1554–1587) was an Irish soldier and landowner of the Tudor era. Dudley was the son of the Staffordshire-born Sir Nicholas Bagenal who had settled in Ireland in the 1550s, creating a power base around Newry in Ulster thanks to ...

) and Elizabeth Roper, daughter of John Roper, 3rd Baron Teynham. Dudley was educated at

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, matriculating 8 December 1658, and he entered the

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the same year to train in law. Bagenal was raised as a Protestant, but later reverted to the

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faith of his parents. Following the

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, on 26 February 1661, Bagenal was restored to the estates that had been seized from his father under

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. He served in the army of the

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in the

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. Bagenal briefly fled to France during the

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owing to his Catholicism and association with the Duke of York. In 1685 he petitioned James II for a place at court, citing both his faith and his family's loyalty to the Stuarts. Bagenal remained loyal to James after the

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and in 1689 he was the

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for

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in the brief

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summoned by James. He was also appointed as the Jacobite Lord Lieutenant of Carlow from 1689 to 1690. During the

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, Bagenal raised and commanded his own regiment for the Jacobites which was present at the

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.BAGNALL, Dudley
Officers of the Jacobite Armies
Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow. Retrieved 16 February 2023. He was

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after the Jacobite defeat in 1691, forfeiting his life's interest in his estate. Bagenal emigrated to France shortly afterwards and was appointed a

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to James' exiled court at

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. He subsequently served at the court of

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, but retired to

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where he died in 1712. Bagenal married first Anne, only daughter of Hon. Edward Butler, son of

Edmund Butler, 4th Viscount Mountgarret Edmund Butler, 4th Viscount Mountgarret (1595–1679) was the son of Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount Mountgarret. He acceded to his title on the death of his father in 1651 and retained his lands in the north and east of Kilkenny while many others wh ...

. In 1668 he married her cousin, Anne Mathew. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Lord Walter Bagenal.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bagenal, Dudley Year of birth unknown 1712 deaths 17th-century Irish military personnel 18th-century Irish people Irish expatriates in France Irish Jacobites Irish MPs 1689 Irish soldiers in the army of James II of England Lord-Lieutenants of Carlow Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Carlow constituencies Military personnel from County Carlow People associated with the Popish Plot People convicted under a bill of attainder Year of birth uncertain