Matthew Plunkett, 7th Baron Louth
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Matthew Plunkett, 7th Baron Louth (died September 1689) was an Irish Jacobite soldier and peer. Louth was the son of Oliver Plunkett, 6th Baron Louth, and Lady Mary Dillon, the daughter of
Randal MacDonnell, 1st Earl of Antrim Randall MacSorley MacDonnell, 1st Earl of Antrim, PC (Ire) (died 1636), rebelled together with Tyrone and Tyrconnell in the Nine Years' War but having succeeded his brother, Sir James mac Sorley MacDonnell, as Lord of the Route and the Glynn ...
. In 1679 he succeeded to his father's peerage and assumed his seat in the
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. In 1685 he received a commission from
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in the
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and in 1687 became the colonel of a regiment of foot, Lord Louth's Regiment. That same year he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Louth and Drogheda. Louth participated in the
Williamite War in Ireland The Williamite War in Ireland (1688–1691; ga, Cogadh an Dá Rí, "war of the two kings"), was a conflict between Jacobite supporters of deposed monarch James II and Williamite supporters of his successor, William III. It is also called th ...
on the side of James II, and commanded the mortars at the
Siege of Derry The siege of Derry in 1689 was the first major event in the Williamite War in Ireland. The siege was preceded by a first attempt against the town by Jacobite forces on 7 December 1688 that was foiled when 13 apprentices shut the gates ...
in 1689. He was among those sworn of the Privy Council of Ireland on James' arrival in Ireland in March 1689 and he participated in the
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the same year. He was declared an outlaw by the government of
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, but had died by September 1689. On 4 February 1664 he married Jane Fitzgerald, daughter of Sir Luke Fitzgerald, by whom he had two sons and four daughters. Louth's great-great-grandson, the eleventh Baron, managed to obtain a reversal of the outlawry and was restored to the title.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Louth, Matthew Plunkett, 7th Baron Year of birth unknown 1689 deaths 17th-century Irish people Barons in the Peerage of Ireland Irish Jacobites Jacobite military personnel of the Williamite War in Ireland Lord-Lieutenants of Louth Members of the Irish House of Lords Members of the Privy Council of Ireland