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Sir Christopher Plunkett, Kt.

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • "Cusack Family of Meath and Dublin", The Irish Genealogist
    • 5(3) 1976, p.298-313
    • 5(4) 1977, p.464-470
    • 5(5) 1978, p.591-600
    • 5(6) 1979, p.673-684
    • 6(2) 1981, p.130-153
    • 6(3) 1982, p.285-298

Sir Christopher Plunkett, Kt (see here),
mar 1403 to Joan Cusack [dau of Sir Lucas Cusack, Kt, Lord of Killeen],
she was heiress of Killeen Castle, Co.Meath,
and of neighbouring Dunsany Castle, Dunsany, Co.Meath [originally built c.1200 by Hugh de Lacy, which must be Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster, son of Hugh de Lacy, 1st Lord of Meath who built Killeen],
by this marriage he inherited Killeen Castle and Dunsany Castle, became Lord of Killeen,
died 1445,
had issue:

1. John Plunkett, of Killeen, died pre-1445, having had issue:
   1. Sir Christopher Plunkett, Lord of Killeen,
      mar Joanna Bellew
      and died 1462, having had issue:
      1. Christopher Plunkett, Lord of Killeen,
         mar Elizabeth Welles [descendant of Edward I] and had issue:
         1. Janet Plunkett, or Genet,
            mar Nicholas St.Lawrence, 3rd (16th) Baron Howth and had issue.

      2. Edmund Plunkett, Lord of Killeen, ancestor of Earls of Fingall.

2. Christopher Plunkett, 1st Baron of Dunsany, cr 1439.

3. Thomas Plunkett, of Rathmore, Co.Meath, ancestor (probably father) of:
   1. Anne Plunkett, or Anna,
      of Rathmore, Co.Meath, or "Ratoath",
      mar pre-1435 to Christopher St.Lawrence, 1st Baron Howth and had issue.

4. Rowland Plunkett, had issue:
   1. Sir Thomas Plunkett, Chief Justice,
      built Dunsoghly Castle c.1470.

5. Maud Plunkett,
   mar 1stly, 1429, to Sir Walter Hussey ["Lord Galtrim"],
   on their wedding day, he was called out to some local skirmish and he was killed,
   the story is immortalised in the ballad The Bride of Malahide by Gerald Griffin,
   mar 2ndly to Sir Richard Talbot, Lord of Malahide,
   died in 1482, bur in huge tomb with effigy in ruins of Malahide Abbey, beside Malahide Castle, N Co.Dublin.

and probably father (poss. grandfather) of:

1. (dau) Plunkett (dau of Plunkett of Killeen, Co.Meath),
   mar Sir Jenico Dartasse [of Gascony in France] and had issue:
   1. Margaret Dartas, or "Margaret D'Artois",
      mar 1stly to Thomas Barnewall,
      mar 2ndly to John Dowdall and had issue,
      mar 3rdly, c.1467, to Rowland FitzEustace, 1st Baron Portlester and had issue.

Ruins of Malahide Abbey, beside Malahide Castle.
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Ruins of Malahide Abbey, beside Malahide Castle.
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Photo from pictures-of-castles.co.uk by Marijn Kampf. See terms of use.