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Welles, Baron Welles

• References:
  • WELLES, Baron Welles, in [Burkes Extinct]
  • WELLES, Viscount Welles, in [Burkes Extinct]
  • NANGLE in [Burkes Irish, 1976]

John de Welles, 5th Baron Welles,
mar Eleanor Mowbray [descendant of Edward I]
and had issue:

1. Anne Welles, mar pre-1386 to James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormonde and had issue.

2. Eudo de Welles, mar Maude de Greystock [descendant of Charlemagne] and had issue:

   
   

   1. Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles,
      Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 16th Henry VI (1438), for seven years (until 1445),
      had issue:
      1. John Welles, 1st Viscount Welles, mar Cicely Plantagenet [born 1469, dau of Edward IV] and had issue:
         1. Anne Welles, died young c.1499.

      
      

   2. Sir William Welles, Lord Chancellor of Ireland,
      mar Anne Barnewall and had issue:
      1. Elizabeth Welles,
         mar 1stly to Christopher Plunkett, Lord of Killeen and had issue,
         mar 2ndly to James Fleming, 12th Baron Slane [see FLEMING in [Burkes Extinct]] and had issue:
         1. Eleanor Fleming, mar Edmund Plunkett and had issue.

      2. Ismay Welles, mar Thomas Nangle, 15th Baron of Navan, and had issue:
         1. Catherine Nangle, mar Sir John Plunkett, Kt. and had issue.

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• Welles by Peter Barns-Graham
• Nangle by Peter Barns-Graham