Thomas Netterville (died 1528) was an Irish

judge A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges. A judge hears all the witnesses and any other evidence presented by the barristers or solicitors of the case, assesses the credibility an ...

in the reign of

Henry VIII Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disa ...

.Ball p.194

Life

He was born at Dowth in County Meath, son of John Netterville and a daughter of Christopher Barnewall, 2nd

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, and Elizabeth Plunkett. The Nettervilles were an old

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family which had already produced one leading judge,

Nicholas de Netterville Nicholas de Netterville (died after 1309) was a Crown official and judge in Ireland in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. He was the first notable member of a prominent landowning family in County Meath, who were based mainly at Do ...

, who like Thomas sat in the Common Pleas (1301-9).

Luke Netterville Luke (Lucas) Netterville (–1560) was a sixteenth-century Irish judge. He was father of the statesman Richard Netterville and grandfather of the 1st Viscount Netterville. He was born in County Meath, son of John Netterville of Dowth and Alison S ...

(died 1560), another Irish judge of the era, was Thomas's younger cousin and brother-in-law (they married sisters of the St Lawrence family) and was the ancestor of Viscount Netterville.Lodge, p.54 Thomas was studying law at the Inner Temple in 1507.Kenny p.19 He was Chief Justice of the Liberty of Kildare in 1518. He became a judge of the

Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) The Court of Common Pleas was one of the principal courts of common law in Ireland. It was a mirror image of the equivalent court in England. Common Pleas was one of the four courts of justice which gave the Four Courts in Dublin, which is still ...

in 1521, and probably died in office in 1528. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas St Lawrence, 4th Baron Howth and his first wife Genet Plunkett; they had no children. Lodge p.54

Sources

*Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' London John Murray 1926 *Kenny, Colum ''King's Inns and the Kingdom of Ireland'' Dublin Irish Academic Press 1992 *Lodge, John ''Peerage of Ireland'' London William Johnston 1754 Vol. IV

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Netterville, Thomas Justices of the Irish Common Pleas Members of the Inner Temple Lawyers from County Meath 1528 deaths 16th-century Irish judges