Malcolm Hamilton (died 1629) was a

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who was the

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Archbishop of Cashel The Archbishop of Cashel ( ga, Ard-Easpag Chaiseal Mumhan) was an archiepiscopal title which took its name after the town of Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland. Following the Reformation, there had been parallel apostolic successions to the title ...

from 1623 to 1629. He was

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of Devenish, before being appointed

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of Down in 1612. He was consecrated

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of Cashel at

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by Archbishop

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on 29 June 1623. He died of an unknown infectious disease on 25 April 1629 and was buried in the cathedral at the

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. He had Monea Castle built on his inherited lands in

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, starting in 1616, completed about 1618, and a

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added in 1622.

Family

One of the sons of his first marriage to Mary Wilkie of Sachtonhill was

Hugh Hamilton, 1st Viscount of Glenawly Hugh Hamilton, 1st Viscount Glenawly (c. 1600–1678) was a soldier in Swedish and English service. He was awarded the title of ''friherre'' for his service to Sweden. Background He came from a family that descended from the Hamiltons of Dalse ...

, a soldier in Swedish service, who in

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was created baron of Deserf. Lewis Hamilton was the son of his second marriage, and he also was in Swedish service and was elevated there to baronial rank. Through him, colonel, governor

Gustav Hamilton Baron Gustaf or Gustav Ludvigsson Hamilton (late 1650s – 1691), known as the ''governor of Enniskillen'' (their chief of defence) in Northern Ireland, was colonel, and ''de jure'' ''friherre'' of Deserf in peerage of Sweden. Biography Gustav ...

(1650s–1691) was Malcolm's grandson. Captain John Hamilton of Monea was Malcolm's younger son of his first marriage. His sons, Malcolm and Hugo, went into Swedish service in 1655 and were, in 1689, created barons in the

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References

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