Henry Folliott, 1st Baron Folliott

Henry Folliott, 1st Baron Folliott (1568–1622) was an English soldier in the Irish army. He fought in the Nine Years' War and then in the suppression of O'Doherty's rebellion at the Siege of Tory Island.

Henry Folliot
Baron Folliot
Tenure	1620–1622
Successor	Thomas Folliott, 2nd Baron Folliott
Born	1568
Died	10 November 1622
Spouse(s)	Anne Strode
Issue Detail	Thomas & others
Father	Thomas Folliot of Pirton Court
Mother	Katherine Lygon

Birth and origins

Henry was born in 1568, the second son of Thomas Folliott and his wife Katherine Lygon. His father was esquire of Pirton Court, Pirton, Worcestershire.^[1] His father's family was a cadet branch of the baronial family of Foliot that had been established in England at the Norman conquest in 1066.

Henry's mother was his father's second wife. She was a daughter of William Lygon of Madresfield Court in Malvern, Worcestershire.

Marriage and children

Folliott married Anne Strode, daughter of Sir William Strode of Stoke-sub-Hamdon, Somerset.^[2][3][a]

Henry and Anne had five sons:

1. Thomas (1613–1697), his successor^[4]
2. Michael Folliott (d. 17 November 1638)^[5]
3. Arthur, died young^[6]
4. Henry, died childless^[7]
5. Charles (died after 1621)^[8]

—and two daughters:

1. Frances (died 1638), married Sir Robert King MP of Boyle Abbey, and had issue including John King, 1st Baron Kingston and Sir Robert King, 1st Baronet^[9]
2. Elizabeth, married firstly on 7 May 1640 Richard Wingfield and had issue Folliott Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt; she married secondly on 12 April 1646 Edward Trevor; she married thirdly Sir John Ponsonby (d. 1678) and had issue including William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon.^[10]

Nine Years' War

He came to Ireland and served the Crown during the Nine Years' War (Ireland) (1594–1603). in 1599 he was knighted by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.^[11] He commanded a regiment under Lord Mountjoy in 1601 at the Battle of Kinsale.^[12][13] In 1603 he was commissioned to develop a township adjacent to Ballyshannon Castle in the south of County Donegal, Ulster. In 1608 he commanded troops in the suppression of O'Doherty's rebellion and successfully captured or killed some of the rebels during the Siege of Tory Island. The parliamentary borough of Ballyshannon (Parliament of Ireland constituency) was incorporated in 1613 just before the Irish Parliament of 1613–1615.

Later life and death

He was created Baron Folliott, of Ballyshannon in the County of Donegal, in the Peerage of Ireland on 22 January 1620. Lord Folliott, as he was now, acquired salmon fisheries and over 3,000 acres (12 km²) of land in County Donegal from Francis Gofton.^[14] His residence was Wardtown Castle, Ballymacaward, Ballyshannon, County Donegal.

Ruins of Wardtown Castle, Ballyshannon, County Donegal

Folliott died on 10 November 1622 and was succeeded by his eldest son Thomas as the 2nd Baron Folliott.^[15] His widow married Robert Dillon, who was then styled "Baron Dillon of Kilkenny-West" as the heir of the 1st Earl of Roscommon. She was his third wife and had further issue by him, including Carey Dillon, 5th Earl of Roscommon.^[16] She died c. 1650.

Notes and references

Notes

1. His wife, Anne Strode, was not one of the seven daughters of William Strode (1562–1637) of Newnham (Old), as their names as well as those of their husbands are known: none is called Anne, and none married a Folliott.

Citations

1. Burke 1883, p. 219, left column, bottom. "... son of Thomas Folliott, Esq. of Pyrton, co. Worcester, by Katherine, his 2nd wife, dau. [daughter] of William Lygon, Esq. ..."
2. Burke 1883, p. 219, right column, line 4. "His lordship m. Anne, dau. [daughter] of Sir William Strode, of Stoke-under-Hampden, in Somersetshire ..."
3. Begley 1991. "Henry married Anne, daughter of Sir William Stroude of Stoke-under-Hamden, co. Somerset, and they had seven children."
4. Burke 1883, p. 219, right column, line 8. "I. Thomas, his heir."
5. Burke 1883, p. 219, right column, line 9. "II. Michael, d. 17 November, 1638, and was buried in St. Werburgh's Church, Dublin."
6. Burke 1883, p. 219, right column, line 11. "III. Arthur, d. an infant."
7. Burke 1883, p. 219, right column, line 12. "IV. Henry, d. s. p."
8. Burke 1883, p. 219, right column, line 13. "V. Charles, living 1622."
9. Burke 1883, p. 219, right column, line 14. "I. Frances m. [married] to Sir Robert King, of Kingsborough (son of the Right Hon. Sir John King, of Abbey Boyle, co. Roscommon, muster master of Ireland, P. C.) and d. [died] 13 March 1637, having had issue ..."
10. Burke 1883, p. 219, right column, line 26. "II. Elizabeth m. [married] 1st, in 1640, to Richard Wingfield, Esq., of Powerscourt; 2ndly, in 1646, to Edward Trevor, Esq.; and 3rdly to Col. Sir John Ponsonby, of Bessborough and by him had issue ..."
11. Shaw 1906, p. 97. "1599, Sept. 6. Henry Folliott (by the same [Essex])"
12. Cokayne 1926, p. 543. "... was at the victory of Lord Mountjoy over the rebel Earl of Tyrone, at Kinsale, in 1601."
13. Burke 1883, p. 219, right column, line 1. "... commanded a regiment at the victory of Kinsale ..."
14. James Morrin, Calendar of the patent and close rolls of chancery in Ireland (Dublin, 1863), pp. 388–9, 472.
15. Burke 1883, p. 219, right column, line 34. "His lordship d. [died] 10 November, 1622, and was s. [succeeded] by his son, Thomas Folliott, 2nd Lord Folliott, governor of Londonderry ..."
16. Burke 1883, p. 172, right column, line 28. "and 3rdly, Anne, dau. [daughter] of Sir William Stroud, and widow of Lord Folliott, by whom he had a son Cary, who s. [succeeded] as 5th earl."

Sources

• Begley, Anthony (1991). "The Folliotts, Wardtown Castle and the Colleen Bawn". Donegal Annual: 61–69. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 30 November 2006.
• Burke, Bernard (1883). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (New ed.). London: Harrison. OCLC 499232768.
• Cokayne, George Edward (1926). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Vol. V (2nd ed.). London: St Catherine Press. OCLC 228661424. – Eardley of Spalding to Goojerat
• Shaw, William A. (1906). The Knights of England. Vol. II. London: Sherratt & Hughes. – Knights bachelors & Index

Peerage of Ireland
New creation	Baron Folliott 1620–1622	Succeeded by Thomas Folliott