396 COMPLETE PEERAGE baltinglass LEN, CO. Kildare [I.], in Sep. 1535, (") and subsequently, 29 June 1541, was cr. VISCOUNT BALTINGLASS, co. Wicklow [L]. He is said to have possessed one half of the co. of Wicklow. He m. Margaret, da. of Peter Talbot, of Malahide, co. Dublin, by Catharine, illegit. da. of Gerald (FiTZ Gerald), Earl of Kildare [L]. He d. 31 July 1549. IL 1549. 2. Rowland (Eustace), Viscount Baltinglass, 6fc. [L], s. and h. Aged 35 in 1540. On 26 Oct. 1549 he had livery of the family estates. On 11 June 1567, he was ordered to be sent a prisoner to London. He m. Joan, da. of James (Butler), Lord DuNBOYNE [I.], by Joan, da. of Piers (Butler), 8th Earl of Ormonde [L]. He d. 31 Mar, 1578. His widow was living Sep. 1585. in. 1578 3. James (Eustace), Viscount Baltinglass and Baron to KiLCULLEN [I.], s. and h. In 1576 he joined with other 1 58 1. "Lords of the Pale" in a complaint as to taxes being levied without sanction of Pari., and subsequently joined the Earl of Desmond in a conspiracy to place the Queen of Scots on the English and Irish throne, which failing, he fled from his country in 1 58 1. For this he was outlawed, and his title forfeited, he being des- cribed as " James Eustace late Viscount Baltinglass " in the Act of Pari, for the attainder of the family honours, and forfeiture of the entailed estates, passed May 1585, some six months before his death. All his brothers took part in the same rebellion and were likewise attainted. He tn. Mary, da. and coh. of Henry Travers, of Monkstown Castle, co. Dublin, by Genet, da. of Jenico (Preston), Viscount Gormanston [I.]. He d. s.p., 25 Nov. 1585, in Spain. His widow w. (as his ist wife) Gerald Aylmer (who was cr. a Bart. [I.] in 162 1), and d. 28 Nov., and was bur. 17 Dec. 1 6 10, at Monkton. Fun. Ent. The title was assumed as under. IV. 1585 Edmund Eustace, next br. and h., having joined his to br. in rebellion, fled to Scotland in 1583, and thence to 1594. Spain ; and was attainted with him May 1585. On the death of the 3rd Viscount, in Nov. 1585, he assu- med the title of VISCOUNT BALTINGLASS [I.], being sometimes said to have been so cr. by the Pope ! (") in 1586. He served in the Armada in 1588, and d. Sep. 1594, in Portugal, apparently unm. (") ('>) Ware's Annals, p. 93. On 10 Oct. 1535, John Alen, Master of the Rolls [I.], acknowledges receipt from Secretary Thomas Cromwell of patents of creation for Thomas Eustace and Sir Richard Power to be Barons of Parliament. [State Papers, Ireland, 1 509-1573, p. 15.) Lord Power was so cr. 13 Sep. V.G. C') For another supposed Papal creation in the peerage, see the case of John de Mohun, pretended to have been cr. Earl of Somerset in King John's time. V.G. C^) A letter, dat. Jan. 1594/5, printed in State Papers, [I.], states that "my lord of Baltinglass is now in Madrid ; " and a pilot of a fleet, which left Lisbon in Oct.
