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A View of the Legal Institutions, Honorary Hereditary Offices, and Feudal Baronies, Established in Ireland During the Reign of Henry the Second; Ded

A View of the Legal Institutions, Honorary Hereditary Offices, and Feudal Baronies, Established in Ireland During the Reign of Henry the Second; Ded

Lynch, William

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ISBN10: 1150105011
ISBN13: 9781150105012
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.28 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830. Excerpt: ... 229 CHAPTER IX. FAMILIES OF DESMOND AND PLUNKET. To exemplify a few of the leading principles which governed the descent and inheritance of Feudal dignities, the following notes have been collected relating to the HOUSE OF DESMOND. It should be observed that this House, though so illustrious and so closely connected with the history of the country where it flourished for several centuries, has been the subject of much misconception. When the first regular account of the Irish Peerage was published, its indefatigable author, Mr. Lodge, (whose work has been followed almost universally by subsequent writers, ) fell into some errors, which the extent and intricacy of such an undertaking rendered it impossible to avoid: amongst those errors, none are more remarkable than his statement as to the early Lords of the House of Desmond, whom he confounds with the first Barons of Ophaley, founders of the House of Kildare and Leinster. As it must appear invidious, however, to dwell on the mistakes of one who, under the most discouraging circumstances, made the first attempt at an authentic history of the Peerage of Ireland, it may be sufficient to state here, that from at least the year 1199, when the series of rolls in the Tower commences, the Lords of those two Houses were separate and different persons, holding separate and distinct properties in parts of the kingdom widely distant from each other. This appears by a connected series of records entered on those rolls, in which it will also be found that the first Lords of the Desmond family held large seigniories in Minister of the Crown immediately in capite; and therefore the King was always their guardian, and had the disposal of them in marriage; while the founders of the House of Kildare held their seigniories i..

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