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3 unusual facts about Francis Annesley


Francis Annesley

Francis Annesley, 1st Viscount Valentia (1585–1660), English statesman during the colonisation of Ireland

Francis Annesley, 1st Viscount Valentia

He was nominated on a committee of the Irish privy council appointed to investigate charges of injustice preferred against Falkland by the Byrne Clan, that had held land in County Wicklow for centuries.

Laurence Esmonde, Lord Esmonde

In 1639 he was summoned before the Star Chamber for having conspired with Lord Mountnorris and Sir Piers Crosby to libel the Lord Deputy Strafford in the matter of one Robert Esmonde, a relative of Lord Esmonde, whose death Strafford was accused of causing by ill-treatment while he was being questioned about customs evasions.


Viscount Valentia

A year later, his kinsman Sir Francis Annesley, 1st Baronet, was given a "reversionary grant" of the viscountcy, which stated that on Power's death Annesley would be created Viscount Valentia.


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