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John Barnewall, 3rd Baron Trimlestown

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72: 116: 192:, 10th Earl of Kildare, he was one of the Irish nobles whose loyalty to the Crown was considered to be dubious, but it seems that these suspicions, based on John's record of support for the Kildare dynasty, were not strong enough for any action to be taken against him. After the failure of the Rebellion, he received a 123:
He was unusual among the Irish nobility of his time both in his legal ability and in his willingness to hold judicial office. O'Flanagan suggests that in becoming a judge he wished to follow the distinguished example of his maternal grandfather, Chief Justice Plunket. He was made
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against the Crown. O'Flanagan praises him as an expert on finance as well as law, but adds somewhat cynically that his greatest talent was for looking after his own interests, as evidenced by the substantial grants of lands at Dunleer made to him by the
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and his second wife Marian Cruise (or Cruys). He succeeded his father as 3rd Baron in about 1513. His father, like most of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, had supported the claim of the
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in 1534. The King wrote that he was content that his "trusty and well-beloved counsellor Lord Trimlestown should continue in office as Lord Chancellor". He was sworn a member of the
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He was four times married. Only the names of his first and second wives are known for certain: they were Janet (or Genet) Bellew, daughter of John Bellew of
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Ruins of Roebuck Castle, by Gabriel Berange, c,1765: Lord Trimlestown's grandfather had acquired Roebuck Castle by marriage
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in 1537, but was not appointed to either office. He acquired Rosestown through marriage to the heiress Joanna Rowe.
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between 1477 and 1495; her mother was a member of the influential FitzEustace family of
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to the English throne in 1487. After the failure of Simnel's rebellion, he received a
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His brother Robert (died before 1547), of Rosestown, County Meath, was like John a
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Elizabeth Barnewall, who married three times: her husbands were George Plunkett of
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland
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By Margaret, he had six further children, four sons and two daughters:
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and politician. He was the eldest son of Christopher Barnewall, 2nd
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The subject of our sketch rose to high office in Ireland under
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Catherine Barnewall, who married Patrick Hussey, 11th
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nobleman
judge
Baron Trimlestown
Thomas Fitz-Christopher Plunket
Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland
pretender
Lambert Simnel
royal pardon
Henry II
County Cork
Drimnagh

Henry VIII
knighted
Dunleer
Roebuck Castle
campus
University College Dublin
heiress

Attorney General for Ireland
Solicitor General for Ireland
King's Sergeant
Court of King's Bench
Lord Treasurer of Ireland
Lord Chancellor of Ireland
Privy Council of Ireland
Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare
rebelled
English Crown

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