Henry Folliott, 1st Baron Folliott (1568–1622) was an English soldier in the Irish army. He fought to suppress O'Doherty's rebellion at the

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Birth and origins

Henry was born in 1568, the second son of Thomas Folliott and his wife Katherine Lygon. His father was esquire of Pirton Court, Pirton, Worcestershire. His father's family was a cadet branch of the baronial family of Folliot that was estabslished in England at the

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in 1066. Henry's mother was his father's second wife. She was a daughter of William Lygon of

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Marriage

He married Anne Strode, daughter of Sir William Strode of Stoke-under-Hampden,

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, and his wife Mary Southcott. Henry and Anne had four sons: #

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(1613–1697) # Michael Folliott (d. 17 November 1638) # Arthur Folliott, died young # Charles Folliott (died after 1622) —and three daughters: # Anne Folliott # Frances Folliott (died 1638), married Sir Robert King MP of

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, and had issue including

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and Sir Robert King, 1st Baronet # Elizabeth (Bess) Folliott, married firstly on 7 May 1640 Richard Wingfield and had issue Folliott Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt; married secondly on 12 April 1646 Edward Trevor; married thirdly Sir John Ponsonby (d. 1678) and had issue including

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Nine Years' War

He came to Ireland and served

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in the during the

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(1594–1603). in 1599 he was knighted by

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. In 1603 he was commissioned to develop a township adjacent to

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Castle in the south of

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in Ulster. In 1608 he commanded troops in the suppression of O'Doherty's rebellion and successfully captured or killed some of the rebels during the

. The Borough of

was incorporated in 1613.

Later life and death

He was created '' Baron Folliott, of Ballyshannon in the County of Donegal'', in the

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on 22 January 1620. Lord Folliott, as he was now, acquired

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fisheries and over of land in

from

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.James Morrin, ''Calendar of the patent and close rolls of chancery in Ireland'' (Dublin, 1863), pp. 388–9, 472. His residence was Wardtown Castle, Ballymacaward, Ballyshannon, County Donegal. Folliot died on 10 November 1622. His widow married Robert Dillon, 2nd

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, by whom she had further issue, including

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. She died c. 1650.

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* * – Knights bachelors & Index {{DEFAULTSORT:Folliott, Henry Folliott, 1st Baron 1568 births 1622 deaths 17th-century Anglo-Irish people Barons in the Peerage of Ireland Peers of Ireland created by James I People from Worcester, England People of Elizabethan Ireland People of O'Doherty's rebellion People of the Nine Years' War (Ireland)