Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameSir Edward FITZEUSTACE, 17G Grandfather
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The Irish Family came from Normandy at the time of the Conquest. Around 1100, Eustace FitzJohn inherited the castles of Bamburgh and Knaresborough from his uncle Serlo de Burgh to which Alnwick castle was added on his marriage to Beatrice de Vesci. His second marriage, to Agnes of Halton, brought him the castle at Halton and hereditary constableship of Chester. He was among the most powerful men in the north. His sons of the first marriage took their mother's family name of de Vesci. The son of the second marriage, Robert, married Aubrey de Lisours who was a daughter of the de Lacy family and brought him lordship of Pontefract. Their eldest grandson took the name de Lacy in order to inherit from his great-uncle. His brother, John FitzEustace went with Hugh de Lacy in Strongbow's expedition to Ireland and founded the family in Dublin and County Kildare around 1180. The prefix Fitz' was dropped about 1300. The family fortunes in Ireland peaked in the 1400's when Sir Edward FitzEustace was Lord Deputy of Ireland and his son, Sir Roland, was Lord Treasurer and Lord Deputy being given the title Lord Portlester. Thirty years later, Sir Thomas, nephew of Sir Roland, was made Lord Kilcullen by Henry VIII and then Viscount Baltinglass. His grandson James Eustace, the 3rd viscount, was a devout Catholic and joined the rebellion against Elizabeth defeating the English army at Glenmalure, on the Kildare-Wicklow border, but later lost his lands and titles. James Eustace's properties were forfeited but his life was spared when he fled to safety in Rome.
Eustace is one of the most distinguished of the names which came to Ireland at the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion. While not multiplying to the same extent as the Burkes, Butlers, FitzGeralds, Powers and other great Hiberno-Norman families, the Eustaces were numerous enough to be classed in Petty's census of 1659 among the principal Irish names in four baronies of Co. Kildare. Yet the name is by no means common today - in 1864 there were 20 Eustace birth registrations, in 1865 and 1866, 18 for each year; while in 1890 the figure was 9, compared with 330 for FitzGerald and 272 for Power or, to take a few less numerous ones at random, Bermingham 40, Comerford 30, Cusack 46. To take this a step farther, in 1890 in all of Ireland, there were 715 Ryan births recorded, 193 Hogan, 147 Cahill; 98 Jordan, 59 Caulfield, 76 Donnellan (also Donelan), 39 Ford, 16 McAndrew and 15 Lang births. Whatever may be the cause of this numerical reduction since 1659, the elimination of the great, families of the name is due of course to their constant support of the Irish side in the struggles of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. So long as the English connection with Ireland was no more than a suzerainty and the effective control of the country was, in the hands of the Hiberno-Normans, as was the case up to the middle of the sixteenth century, the name Eustace was prominent in the sphere of goverment. There were many of them sheriffs, constables of castles and the like from 1200 onwards. In the fifteenth century, Sir Richard Eustace was Lord Chancellor (a position held at different times by four other Eustaces); in 1454 Sir Edward FitzEustace was Lord Deputy; his son, Sir Roland, also Lord Chancellor, was created Baron of Portlester: he founded the Franciscan monastery of New Abbey in Co. Kildare. A century earlier, In 1356, another Eustace founded the Dominican priory at Naas. Sir Roland died in 1496, having occupied the positon of Lord Treasurer for 38 years.
Barony of Portlester. - Sir Eustace de Poher died A.D. 1311. From his eldest son have descended the Lords Power and Curraghmore, and from his second the FitzEustaces, or Eustaces. "Mark that the Eusteys descended lineally of the aforesaid Lord Ustas, which were very noble men in those days of knighthood and ability." The representative of the Eustaces in the fifteenth century was Sir Rowland FitzEustace, Lord of Kilcullen, Lord Deputy to the Duke of Clarence, and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, who, on the 5th of March, 1462, was created by patent "Lord and Baron of Portlester," to him and to the heirs male of his body. He died 14th December, 1496 leaving no male issue. His daughter, Alison, married Gerald FitzGerald, eighth Earl of Kildare.
EUSTACE One of the most distinguished of the names which came to Ireland at the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion. They were numerous enough to be classed in Petty's "census" of 1659 among the principal Irish names in four baronies of Co. Kildare. The name is uncommon today. In 1864 there were 20 Eustace birth registrations, in 1865 and 1866, 18 for each year; while in 1890 the figure was 9. The elimination of the great families of the name is due to their constant support of the Irish side in the struggles of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. So long as the English connexion with Ireland was no more than a suzerainty and the effective control of the country was in the hands of the Hiberno-Normans, as was the case up to the middle of the sixteenth century, the name Eustace was prominent in government. Many of them sheriffs, constables of castles etc. from 1200 onwards; in the fifteenth century Sir Richard Eustace was Lord Chancellor; in 1454 Sir Edward FitzEustace was Lord Deputy; his son, Sir Roland, also Lord Chancellor, was created Baron of Portlester; he founded the Franciscan monastery of New Abbey in Co. Kildare just a century earlier, in 1356, another Eustace founded the Dominican priory at Naas; Sir Roland died in 1496, having been Lord Treasurer for 38 years. In the next century the first of the many Eustace attainders occurred: James Eustace 3rd Viscount Baltinglass, who with the Gaelic septs of Co. Wicklow had signally defeated Lord Grey in 1580, shared in the general ruin following the collapse of Desmond's rebellion. The 1642 attainders include about 20 Eustaces mostly of Co. Kildare. The name is perpetuated at Ballymore Eustace. Maurice Eustace (c. 1590-1665) speaker of the Irish House of Commons in 1639 and Lord Chancellor in 1660. His nephew and co-heir, Sir Maurice Eustace (d. 1693) commanded one of the infantry regiments in James 11's army, in which there were six officers named Eustace.. Sir Maurice was one of the 22 attainders and forfeitures in 1691. Many of these whole-hearted Jacobite Eustaces followed James 11 to France.
Eustace is one of the most distinguished of the names which came to Ireland at the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion. While not multiplying to the same extent as the Burkes, Butlers, FitzGeralds, Powers and other great Hiberno-Norman families, the Eustaces were numerous enough to be classed in Petty's census of 1659 among the principal Irish names in four baronies of Co. Kildare. Yet the name is by no means common today - in 1864 there were 20 Eustace birth registrations, in 1865 and 1866, 18 for each year; while in 1890 the figure was 9, compared with 330 for FitzGerald and 272 for Power or, to take a few less numerous ones at random, Bermingham 40, Comerford 30, Cusack 46. To take this a step farther, in 1890 in all of Ireland, there were 715 Ryan births recorded, 193 Hogan, 147 Cahill; 98 Jordan, 59 Caulfield, 76 Donnellan (also Donelan), 39 Ford, 16 McAndrew and 15 Lang births. Whatever may be the cause of this numerical reduction since 1659, the elimination of the great, families of the name is due of course to their constant support of the Irish side in the struggles of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. So long as the English connection with Ireland was no more than a suzerainty and the effective control of the country was, in the hands of the Hiberno-Normans, as was the case up to the middle of the sixteenth century, the name Eustace was prominent in the sphere of goverment. There were many of them sheriffs, constables of castles and the like from 1200 onwards. In the fifteenth century, Sir Richard Eustace was Lord Chancellor (a position held at different times by four other Eustaces); in 1454 Sir Edward FitzEustace was Lord Deputy; his son, Sir Roland, also Lord Chancellor, was created Baron of Portlester: he founded the Franciscan monastery of New Abbey in Co. Kildare. A century earlier, In 1356, another Eustace founded the Dominican priory at Naas. Sir Roland died in 1496, having occupied the positon of Lord Treasurer for 38 years.
Barony of Portlester. - Sir Eustace de Poher died A.D. 1311. From his eldest son have descended the Lords Power and Curraghmore, and from his second the FitzEustaces, or Eustaces. "Mark that the Eusteys descended lineally of the aforesaid Lord Ustas, which were very noble men in those days of knighthood and ability." The representative of the Eustaces in the fifteenth century was Sir Rowland FitzEustace, Lord of Kilcullen, Lord Deputy to the Duke of Clarence, and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, who, on the 5th of March, 1462, was created by patent "Lord and Baron of Portlester," to him and to the heirs male of his body. He died 14th December, 1496 leaving no male issue. His daughter, Alison, married Gerald FitzGerald, eighth Earl of Kildare.
EUSTACE One of the most distinguished of the names which came to Ireland at the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion. They were numerous enough to be classed in Petty's "census" of 1659 among the principal Irish names in four baronies of Co. Kildare. The name is uncommon today. In 1864 there were 20 Eustace birth registrations, in 1865 and 1866, 18 for each year; while in 1890 the figure was 9. The elimination of the great families of the name is due to their constant support of the Irish side in the struggles of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. So long as the English connexion with Ireland was no more than a suzerainty and the effective control of the country was in the hands of the Hiberno-Normans, as was the case up to the middle of the sixteenth century, the name Eustace was prominent in government. Many of them sheriffs, constables of castles etc. from 1200 onwards; in the fifteenth century Sir Richard Eustace was Lord Chancellor; in 1454 Sir Edward FitzEustace was Lord Deputy; his son, Sir Roland, also Lord Chancellor, was created Baron of Portlester; he founded the Franciscan monastery of New Abbey in Co. Kildare just a century earlier, in 1356, another Eustace founded the Dominican priory at Naas; Sir Roland died in 1496, having been Lord Treasurer for 38 years. In the next century the first of the many Eustace attainders occurred: James Eustace 3rd Viscount Baltinglass, who with the Gaelic septs of Co. Wicklow had signally defeated Lord Grey in 1580, shared in the general ruin following the collapse of Desmond's rebellion. The 1642 attainders include about 20 Eustaces mostly of Co. Kildare. The name is perpetuated at Ballymore Eustace. Maurice Eustace (c. 1590-1665) speaker of the Irish House of Commons in 1639 and Lord Chancellor in 1660. His nephew and co-heir, Sir Maurice Eustace (d. 1693) commanded one of the infantry regiments in James 11's army, in which there were six officers named Eustace.. Sir Maurice was one of the 22 attainders and forfeitures in 1691. Many of these whole-hearted Jacobite Eustaces followed James 11 to France.