Charles Lambart, 1st Earl of Cavan (c. March 1600 – 25 June 1660) was an

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soldier and peer. Lambart was the son of

Oliver Lambart, 1st Baron Lambart Oliver Lambart, 1st Lord Lambart, Baron of Cavan (died June 1618) was a military commander and an MP in the Irish House of Commons. He was Governor of Connaught in 1601. He was invested as a Privy Counsellor (Ireland) in 1603. He was also an Eng ...

and Hester Fleetwood. He served as the Member of Parliament for

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in 1626, and again between 1628 and 1629. He had succeeded to his father's barony on 10 June 1618 but as this was a title in the

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, he was not secluded from sitting in the

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. Lambart was

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of Cavan and of Kells in 1627 and made a member of the

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. Following the

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, he raised a regiment of 1,000 foot guards against the

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''Cracroft's Peerage: The Complete Guide to the British Peerage & Baronetage''; accessed 12 April 2016. He was subsequently the commander of the forces guarding

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on behalf of

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in 1642. On 15 April 1647, Lambart was created Earl of Cavan and Viscount Kilcoursie in the Peerage of Ireland, in recognition of his loyalty to the Royalist cause.''Biographical Peerage of Ireland'' (Nichols, 1817), p. 43.

Family

Lambart married Hon. Jane Robartes, the daughter of Richard Robartes, 1st Baron Robartes and his wife Frances Hender, and sister of

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, in 1625. Together they had four children, Richard, Oliver, Rose and Hester. He was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son,

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, who was insane for most of his adult life. Some blamed his father indirectly for Richard's mental condition, in favouring his younger son Oliver to the extent that he deprived Richard of much of his inheritance, causing him to fall into a "deep melancholy".

References

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