Nicholas Barnewall, 3rd Viscount Barnewall

Nicholas Barnewall, 3rd Viscount Barnewall (1668–1725) was an Irish nobleman who fought for the Jacobites but afterwards sat in William's Irish Parliament. He was buried in a beautiful monument at Lusk.

Nicholas Barnewall
Viscount Barnewall
Tenure	1688–1725
Predecessor	Henry Barnewall, 2nd Viscount Barnewall
Successor	Henry Benedict Barnewall, 4th Viscount Barnewall
Born	(1668-04-15)15 April 1668
Died	14 June 1725(1725-06-14) (aged 57)
Spouse	Mary Hamilton
Issue Detail	Frances, Henry, & George
Father	Henry Barnewall, 2nd Viscount Barnewall
Mother	Mary Nugent

Birth and origins

Nicholas Barnewall was born on 15 April 1668 in Ireland. He was the eldest son of Henry Barnewall and his second wife Mary Nugent.^[1] His father had succeeded his grandfather as the 2nd Viscount in 1663. Nicholas's grandfather, also named Nicholas Barnewall, had been ennobled by King Charles I on 12 September 1645 for loyalty to his cause. His mother was a daughter of Richard Nugent, 2nd Earl of Westmeath.

Family tree

Nicholas Barnewall with wife, parents, and other selected relatives.[a] Nicholas 1st Viscount 1592–1663 Bridget O'Donnell Mary Netterville d. 1663 Henry 2nd Viscount d. 1688 Mary Nugent 1648–1680 Nicholas 3rd Viscount 1668–1725 Mary Hamilton 1676–1736 Henry 4th Viscount 1708–1774 Honora Daly d. 1784 George d. 1771 Barbara Belasyse George 5th Viscount 1758–1800 Legend XXX Subject of the article XXX Viscounts Barnewall

Marriage and children

Before Nicholas was of age, on 15 April 1688, he married Mary Hamilton, daughter of George Hamilton, Comte Hamilton, son of Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet, of Donalong, by his wife, Frances Jennings, who afterwards married Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell).^[2]

Nicholas and Mary had three children:

1. Frances (died 1735), who married her distant cousin Richard Barnewall and was the mother of Nicholas Barnewall, 14th Baron Trimlestown
2. Henry Benedict (1708–1774), 4th Viscount Barnewall
3. George (1711–1771), who would be the father of the 5th Viscount

Career

In 1688 he entered King James's Irish army as captain in the Earl of Limerick's Dragoons. After the defeat of the Boyne he was moved to Limerick; and being in that city at the time of its surrender, was included in the articles and secured his estates. In the first Irish Parliament of William III he took the oath of allegiance, but upon declining to subscribe the declaration according to the English Toleration Act 1688, as contrary to his conscience, he was obliged to withdraw with the other Catholic lords. In February 1703, he joined with many Irish Catholics in an unavailing petition against the infraction of the Treaty of Limerick.^[3]

Death

Lord Barnewall died 14 June 1725, and was buried in a beautiful monument at Lusk.^[4]