Oliver Plunkett, 4th Baron Louth
- Sources yet to be consulted:
-
Louth papers
in
[NLI]
- Pardon of alienation to 4th Baron and others, lands of the late Priory of Louth, 1580.
Ms 40032/1.
-
Marriage settlement of 4th Baron and his 2nd wife, 1605.
Ms 40093/1.
- Pedigree of Plunkett, Barons Louth, of Carstown, Co.Louth, c.1600 - 1761.
[NLI]
Ms.162, pp.156-157
Oliver Plunkett, 4th Baron Louth.
See
genealogics.
He
succ as Baron in 1578.
His
seat was at
Louth Hall, Co.Louth.
He
mar 1stly to
Frances Bagenal
[descendant of
Edward III].
He mar 2ndly, settlement 1605.
He died 5 Mar 1607.
He was bur
Tallanstown, Co.Louth
(near Louth Hall).
4th Baron
had issue by 1st wife:
- Margaret Plunkett.
She mar 1605 to Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam, 1st Viscount Fitzwilliam
and had issue.
- Matthew Plunkett, 5th Baron Louth.
He mar Mary Fitzwilliam and had issue.
He died 19 July 1629.
They are ancestors of
Barons Louth
of Louth Hall, Co.Louth.
The Barons Louth were,
like the Fitzwilliams, a prominent 17th century Roman Catholic family.
They were
Royalist in English Civil War,
and
supporters of King James against William.
Identified in
[Ball, vol.2, 1903]
as Margaret Plunkett,
by
Cornelius Johnson.
But Fitzwilliam Museum now says "Portrait of a woman" by unknown.
Portrait c.1625.
Used here with the kind permission of the
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
