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Rt. Hon. Henry Blayney, 2nd Baron Blayney, Baron of Monaghan (d. 5 June 1646 at the
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) was the son of Edward Blayney, 1st Baron, and of Ann Loftus his wife, daughter of Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin and sometime
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, by his wife Jane Purdon.


Biography

Henry's father Edward, 1st Baron Blayney, was a younger son of David Lloyd Blayney of
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in Tregynon,
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and his wife Elizabeth Jones. Edward was a distinguished soldier and politician who was a member of the
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and the
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, and Governor of
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. He was granted substantial lands in Monaghan, with his principal estate near
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. He was the founder of the town of
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, and was created Baron Blayney in 1621. His wealth enabled him to give his daughter a dowry of £1200. In the 1620s, Edward was described as having great influence at the English Court. On Edward's death in 1629 his title and estates passed to Henry, the eldest son and heir. Henry, with his father, spent much of the 1620s fighting a bitter lawsuit with his brother-in-law
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. Balfour, already an old man, married Henry's teenage sister Anne for her money, but refused to pay her
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, having bullied her into a confession of
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, which was almost certainly false. The Blayneys complained that Balfour was trying to ruin them, but they had sufficient influence to have the matter settled by
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; and it was Balfour, not Lord Blayney, who died a relatively poor man. Henry Blayney witnessed the outbreak of the
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; "who, at the surprisal of his house at
Castleblayney Castleblayney (; ) is a town in County Monaghan, Ireland. The town had a population of 3,926 as of the 2022 census. Castleblayney is near the border with County Armagh in Northern Ireland, and lies on the N2 road from Dublin to Derry and L ...
by the Irish rebels on the 23rd of October, 1641, brought the news of that outbreak to
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. During the rebellion he kept the little fort of Monaghan with the 97th Foot until the fatal
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, in the County of Tyrone, in which he lost his life at the head of his men, fighting against Felim O'Neill, 5th of June, 1646, and was buried at Monaghan." In 1643 Lord Blayney swore in a legal deposition: ''..that he lost his castle at Blayney in County Monaghan, together with goods and riding horses worth £237, plate (£500), linen (£500), and beasts, cattle and sheep (£925). There was ‘More howsholdstuff in his 2 howses worth at least 1000 markes, ready money £296, due debts £400, a library of bookes worth £500’, besides other things that he could not recall.'' In all, Blayney estimated that the insurgents had inflicted £13,873–8–4 worth of damage on his property, goods and livestock, and that he had lost an annual rental of £2,250.


Family

Henry Blayney was married to The Right Honourable Jane, Lady Blayney, daughter of
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, and of Mary his wife, daughter of Sir Henry Colley of Carbury,
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and Catherine Cusack, and had issue 6 sons and 6 daughters, viz. (the following is adapted from the funeral entry of the above Lady Jane Blayney in the Ulster's office): * Edward 3rd Baron Blayney, the eldest son, died unmarried, and was buried in the Church of
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,
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. * Charles second son, died young and was buried in the Church of Monaghan. * Richard, 4th Baron Blayney, third son, was buried in St Michan's Church, Dublin. He took to his first wife Elizabeth daughter of John Mallock, of
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, and relict of Hugh Willoughby, by whom he had no issue. He took to his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Vincent, of London, Alderman, by whom he has had issue five sons and four daughters, viz. : ** Vincent eldest son, died young and was buried in London. ** Henry, now 5th Baron Blayney, second son, Captain of a Troop of Horse in Ireland. ** Edward, third, and – Thomas, fourth son, both died young, and were buried in
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. ** William, fifth son, now Captain of a foot company in Ireland. ** Jane, eldest daughter, married to Blayney Owens, gent. ** Sarah, second daughter married Captain Morris Annesley, son of John Annesley, of
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, Esq., who is brother to the Rt. Hon. the
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. ** Elizabeth, third daughter is unmarried. ** Johanna Maria, fourth daughter died young and was buried in
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. * Arthur fourth son died unmarried and was buried in Castle Blayney. * Garratt, fifth son died at
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, unmarried. * John, sixth son died at the
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, unmarried. * Thomasin, eldest daughter, was first married to Thomas Sandford, of
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, Esq., by whom she had issue ten children. She was subsequently married to Joseph Fox of Graige, in
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, gent., by whom she had issue: five children that died in their infancy and five now living, including Henry Fox, father of
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. * Penelope second daughter married Hugh Morgan of Cottlestowne in
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, gent., son of Captain Morgan and of Bridget his wife, daughter of Robert Blayney of Tregonog aforesaid, who was nephew to the first Edward Lord Blayney; By which Hugh Morgan the said Penelope had issue two children that died young, and two now living, including Eleanor who married William Tisdall. * Mary, third daughter, was first married to Capt Henry Moreton of Newtowne in the
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, by whom she had no issue, she was secondly married to Charles Meredith, Esq., eldest son of Sir Thomas Meredith, Knt., and of Lettice his wife daughter of Sir Faithful Fortescue, Knt. and of Anne, his wife daughter of the aforesaid Lord Viscount Drogheda, by which Charles the said Mary has had issue,- Henry now living, and another that died young. The said Mary, third daughter, lies interred in the Church of Kells. * Penelope, fourth daughter, died young, and was buried in St Peter's Church,
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. * Sarah, fifth daughter yet unmarried, and * Jane, sixth daughter married to Col. John Georges of Somerfeat,
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by whom she has had issue one son – Henry unmarried and one daughter Elizabeth, married to Captain Frederick Hamilton. "The trueth of the Premisses is testified by the subscription of the Rt Honourable Henry now Lord Blayney, Baron of Monaghan (herein before mentioned) grandson of the defunct, who hath returned this certificate to be recorded in the office of Sir Richard Carney, Knt., Ulster King of Arms, this twenty-eight-day of December, Anno Domini, one thousand six hundred and eighty six." Jane, Lady Blayney, wife of Henry Blayney "died at her lodgings on the Merchant's Key 22nd October 1686, and was interred 26 October of the same year, in St. Michan's Church in
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".Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, Ireland – 1907 Vol. VII No. 2 of Part I.


See also

*
Baron Blayney Lord Blayney, Baron of Monaghan, in the County of Monaghan, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1621 for the soldier Sir Edward Blayney. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baron, who was killed at the Battle of Benburb ...


References

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