Richard Nugent (1583 - bef. 1642)

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Died before May 1642 before age 59 in Athboy, County Meath, Ireland

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Biography

Richard Nugent, later 15th Baron Delvin and 1st Earl of Westmeath was born in 1583, son of Christopher Nugent and his wife Lady Mary Fitzgerald daughter of Gerald Fitzgerald 11th. Earl of Kildare. ^[1]

He was a Catholic.

Richard married Jane Plunkett, dau of Christopher Plunket, 9th Lord Killeen and his wife Genet Dillion.

1602 Inherited on death of his father, and in 1603 he was knighted at Dublin by the Earl of Tyrone. ^[2] & ^[1]

Mabel Browne, Dowager Countess of Kildare, wrote to Lord Salisbury expressing her sorrow that the late great treasons should have been plotted at Maynooth, and strongly asserted her own innocence. Namely that in 1606 Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone and Rory O'Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnel, who had married her grand-daughter Lady Bridget Fitzgerald, unknown to the Countess, and in the Castle garden proposed to Richard Lord Delvin, her grandson to take part in a general insurrection. ^[3]

In 1607 he was imprisoned at Dublin Castle as an accomplice of the Earl of Tyrconnel. He escaped to Cloughoughter Castle, co Cavan, and submitted to the King in 1608 and pardoned. He received large grants of land in many Irish counties 1611 ^[4] & ^[5]

On 4 Sep 1621 He was created Earl of Westmeath. ^[6]

In 1626 he travelled to London together with Sir John Barthe to gain financial concessions from Charles 1st. and in 1627 he joined the Duke of Buckingham on the ill fated expedition to the Ile de Ré. ^[4]

He refused to join the Rebellion of 1641 and was ambushed by Irish rebels near Athboy Co. Meath, dying shortly thereafter. He was buried at Clonyn. and suceeded by his grandson Richard as his eldest son Christopher had pre-deceased him ^[4] & ^[1]

Issue: ^[7] & ^[1]

1. Christopher Nugent (b 1604 d 10 July 1625) m. Anne Macdonell (b 1605) eldest daughter of Randal MacDonnell, earl of Antrim- Issue
2. Francis Nugent of Tobber or Tober, Engaged in Rebellion of 1641 and present at Siege of Drogheda. dsp.
3. John Nugent of Dromeng, ancestor of Lavall, Count Nugent, Field Marshall in the Austrian service. m. married Catherine, daughter of James Dillon of Ballymuley, co. Longford - Issue
4. Lawrence Nugent d. unm in France
5. Ignatius Nugent a Colonel in the French service d. 1670 m. Hon. Jane Plunkett, daughter of Matthew Plunkett, 5th Baron Louth. - Issue
6. Bridget Nugent (ommitted from Cracroft). ^[4] d. unm ^[1]
7. Mary Nugent d. unm ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 41 Nugent, Richard (1583-1642) by Robert Dunlop
2. ↑ The Knights of England. A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland. by Shaw, William Arthur, 1865-1943; Burtchaell, George Dames, 1853-1921 Pub:1906
3. ↑ Fitzgerald, Charles William; Duke of Leinster; The Earls of Kildare, and Their Ancestors From 1057 to 1773 pub 1858 pg 225
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Cracroft's Peerage
5. ↑ Ó Siochrú, Micheál; Dictionary of Irish Biography 2009)
6. ↑ Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, Or Dormant by George Edward Cokayne Pub: 1898
7. ↑ "Historical sketch of the Nugent family" pub: 1853 pp 9

See also:

The Peerage

"A compendium of Irish biography: comprising sketches of distinguished Irishmen, and of eminent persons connected with Ireland by office or by their writings" by Alfred Webb, publ 1878 p 362