Edward Brabazon, 2nd Earl of Meath (c. 1610 – 25 March 1675) was an
Anglo-Irish
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Royalist
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soldier and peer.
Brabazon was the son of
William Brabazon, 1st Earl of Meath and Jane Bingley.
[ He was knighted in 1626. Between 1634 and 1635 he was the Member of Parliament for ]Athlone
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in the Irish House of Commons
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.
Brabazon fought for Charles I of England
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in the Irish Rebellion of 1641
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and English Civil War
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, participating in the Battle of Edgehill
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All attempts at constitution ...
in 1642 and commanding a troop of horse in the Royalist army. He was taken prisoner alongside his father in 1644 and imprisoned in the Tower of London
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by the Roundheads
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for eleven months. On 16 December 1651 he succeeded his father as Earl of Meath
Earl of Meath is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1627 and is held by the head of the Brabazon family.
History
The Brabazon family descends from Sir Edward Brabazon, who represented County Wicklow in the Irish House of Com ...
.
After the Stuart Restoration
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, Brabazon was made a member of the Privy Council of Ireland
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. He drowned off Holyhead
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in 1675 while taking a boat from Ireland to England.
He married Mary Chambré, daughter of Calcott Chambré and Mary Villiers, in 1632. Three of his sons succeeded to his title in turn; William
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in 1675, Edward
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History
The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-S ...
in 1685 and Chambré in 1707.[
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References
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Year of birth uncertain
1675 deaths
17th-century Anglo-Irish people
Earls in the Peerage of Ireland
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Irish MPs 1634–1635
Irish soldiers
Members of the Irish House of Lords
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Westmeath constituencies
Members of the Privy Council of Ireland
Royalist military personnel of the English Civil War