Henry Folliott, 1st Baron Folliott (1568–1622) was an English soldier in the Irish army. He fought in the

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and then in the suppression of O'Doherty's rebellion at the Siege of Tory Island.

Birth and origins

Henry was born in 1568, the second son of Thomas Folliott and his wife Katherine Lygon. His father was esquire of Pirton Court,

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. His father's family was a cadet branch of the baronial family of Foliot that had been established in England at the

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in 1066. Henry's mother was his father's second wife. She was a daughter of William Lygon of Madresfield Court in

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Marriage and children

Folliott married Anne Strode, daughter of Sir William Strode of Stoke-sub-Hamdon,

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. Henry and Anne had five sons: #

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(1613–1697), his successor # Michael Folliott (d. 17 November 1638) # Arthur, died young # Henry, died childless # Charles (died after 1621) —and two daughters: # Frances (died 1638), married Sir Robert King MP of

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, and had issue including John King, 1st Baron Kingston and Sir Robert King, 1st Baronet # Elizabeth, married firstly on 7 May 1640 Richard Wingfield and had issue Folliott Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt; she married secondly on 12 April 1646 Edward Trevor; she married thirdly Sir John Ponsonby (d. 1678) and had issue including

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Nine Years' War

He came to Ireland and served

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during the

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(1594–1603). in 1599 he was knighted by

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. He commanded a regiment under Lord Mountjoy in 1601 at the

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. In 1603 he was commissioned to develop a township adjacent to

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Castle in the south of

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, Ulster. In 1608 he commanded troops in the suppression of O'Doherty's rebellion and successfully captured or killed some of the rebels during the Siege of Tory Island. The parliamentary borough of Ballyshannon (Parliament of Ireland constituency) was incorporated in 1613 just before the Irish Parliament of 1613–1615.

Later life and death

He was created '' Baron Folliott, of Ballyshannon in the County of Donegal'', in the

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on 22 January 1620. Lord Folliott, as he was now, acquired

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fisheries and over of land in

from Francis Gofton.James Morrin, ''Calendar of the patent and close rolls of chancery in Ireland'' (Dublin, 1863), pp. 388–9, 472. His residence was Wardtown Castle, Ballymacaward, Ballyshannon, County Donegal. Wardtown Castle - geograph

Folliott died on 10 November 1622 and was succeeded by his eldest son Thomas as the 2nd Baron Folliott. His widow married Robert Dillon, who was then styled "Baron Dillon of Kilkenny-West" as the heir of the 1st

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. She was his third wife and had further issue by him, including Carey Dillon, 5th Earl of Roscommon. She died c. 1650.

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* * * – Eardley of Spalding to Goojerat * – Knights bachelors & Index {{DEFAULTSORT:Folliott, Henry Folliott, 1st Baron 1568 births 1622 deaths 17th-century Anglo-Irish people Barons in the Peerage of Ireland Peers of Ireland created by James I People from Worcester, England People of Elizabethan Ireland People of O'Doherty's rebellion People of the Nine Years' War (Ireland)