Ashton, Sir Robert (d. 1384), soldier and administrator, came from Long Ashton in Somerset, and was the son of another Robert Ashton. The younger Robert's date of birth is uncertain, but he was already a knight in 1361. He accompanied Lionel, duke of Clarence...
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Beaufort, Thomas, duke of Exeter (1377
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Bernadette Cunningham
Bingham, Sir Richard (1527/8–1599), soldier and president of Connacht, was the third son of Robert Bingham of Melcombe-Bingham, Dorset, and his wife, Alice, daughter of Thomas Coker of Mappowder in the same county. His elder brothers were Robert and Christopher; he also had two sisters and five younger brothers, ...
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Sir Richard Bingham (1527/88–1599) by unknown artist, 1564 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Carew, Sir John (d. 1362), soldier and justiciar of Ireland, was a son of the second marriage of Sir John Carew (d. 1324), who held Carew in Pembrokeshire, Moulsford in Berkshire, lands in Devon and Hampshire, and Idrone, Carlow, and other Irish properties which the family had acquired in the late twelfth century by grants made to ...
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Bernadette Cunningham
Clifford, Sir Conyers (d. 1599), soldier and president of Connacht, was the eldest son of George Clifford of Bobbing Court in Kent and his wife, Ursula, daughter of Roger Finch. William, Richard, Thomas, and Conyers Clifford went to Ireland as a family group in the 1570s (the precise relationship between them is unknown), and settled in ...
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William Cunningham, eighth earl of Glencairn (1610/1111–1664) by John Michael Wright, c. 1661 Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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Cunningham, William, eighth earl of Glencairn (1610/11–1664), royalist army officer, was the son of William Cunningham, seventh earl of Glencairn (d. 1631) [see under Cunningham family], and Janet Kerr, daughter of Mark Kerr, first earl of Lothian. In March 1630 he matriculated at ...
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Julian Lock
Grey, Arthur, fourteenth Baron Grey of Wilton (1536–1593), lord deputy of Ireland and soldier, was born between 1 January and 13 October 1536 at Hammes Castle in the Pas-de-Calais, the elder son of the three children of William Grey, thirteenth Baron Grey of Wilton...
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Bernadette Cunningham
Malby, Sir Nicholas (c. 1530–1584), soldier and president of Connacht, was probably born in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His father died when Nicholas was four years old, and the boy was evidently reared, along with his brother John, in the family of a ...
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Meiler fitz Henry (d. 1220), soldier and justiciar of Ireland, was the son of Henry, illegitimate son of Henry I and Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr, king of Deheubarth (south Wales), who also had children with Gerald, constable of Windsor...
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Mitchelburne [Michelborne], John (1648–1721), army officer and military governor, was born on 2 January 1648 and baptized six days later in Horsted Keynes church, Sussex, the son of Abraham Michelborne (d. 1664) of Horsted Keynes, and his first wife, Penelope (d...
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Randolph, Thomas, first earl of Moray (d. 1332), soldier and guardian of Scotland, was the son of Sir Thomas Randolph of Stichill, Roxburghshire, and of a daughter of Marjory, countess of Carrick, and her first husband, Adam of Kilconquhar. Thomas's mother was half-sister to ...
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Brigette Vale
Scrope, Richard, first Baron Scrope of Bolton (c. 1327–1403), soldier and administrator, was the third son of Sir Henry Scrope (b. in or before 1268, d. 1336), a lawyer who acquired a considerable estate in north Yorkshire, and his wife, Margaret, who was probably the daughter of either ...
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A. J. Pollard
Talbot, John, first earl of Shrewsbury and first earl of Waterford (c. 1387–1453), soldier, was the second son of Richard Talbot, fourth Baron Talbot, of Goodrich, Herefordshire, and of Ankaret, sole heir of Richard, Baron Lestrange of Blakemere, near Whitchurch, Shropshire. His father died in 1397, when he was about ten years old. Four years later his mother married ...
