Patrick FitzLeones (died after 1495) was a wealthy and influential

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in fifteenth century

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, who served three times as Mayor of Dublin. The FitzLeones were a long-established Dublin family: in 1281 Geoffrey FitzLeones and his wife Johanna assigned the rent from their lands to the Holy Trinity Augustinian Friary.

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, or Leones, appointed Attorney General for Ireland in 1499, and subsequently

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, who died about 1509, may have been Patrick's cousin. A prominent landowning family named FitzLeones in

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apparently died out around 1300. Patrick was Mayor in 1477–78, 1482–83 and 1494–95. His term as Mayor was not free from controversy: in 1491

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ordered him to hand over the Garter, an

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attached to the Great Sword of State of Dublin, which had been presented to the citizens of Dublin in 1403 by King

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, and which was carried by the Mayor on ceremonial occasions. He had previously been fined for buying

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without paying the required tax of 40 shillings per troy pound, contrary to a

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of 1449. He was clearly a man of considerable wealth: he acquired a house on

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, in 1473, and a garden nearby. He is listed as one of the leading citizens of Dublin to whom King

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granted the

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for the Baker's Guild (officially named the

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of St. Clement and St. Anne) in 1478. In 1472 he was one of the lessees from the

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, Dublin, of the profits from the

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of Lusk.

His wife was a member of the prominent Eustace or FitzEustace family, whose head was

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. He had one daughter, Margaret, the second wife of John Barnewall, 3rd Baron Trimlestown,

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. Trimlestown married four times; six of his seven children, four sons and two daughters, were by Margaret. The sons were Thomas, Peter, James and Andrew: the daughters were Catherine, who married

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, and Elizabeth, who married three times.

Sources

*''A Calendar of Irish Chancery Rolls c.1244–1509'' *Harris, Walter ''The History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin from the Earliest Accounts'' Printed by Laurence Flinn, Castle Street, Dublin 1767 *''"Report of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records in Ireland"'' Vol. 19 * Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland ''Register of Wills and Inventories of the Diocese of Dublin in the time of Archbishops Tregury and Walton 1457–1483''; from the original manuscript in Trinity College Dublin edited by Henry F. Berry Dublin 1898 *''Proceedings at Meetings of the Royal Archaeological Society; Summer Meeting 13–22 July 1931'' {{DEFAULTSORT:FitzLeones, Patrick Lord Mayors of Dublin 15th-century Irish businesspeople 15th-century births Year of death unknown