James Dillon, 3rd Earl of Roscommon
James Dillon, 3rd Earl of Roscommon (c. 1605 – 1649) was one of the ten persons named in Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 as leaders of the Royalist forces in Ireland, thus rendering their estates liable to forfeiture.
He was a Protestant nobleman, eldest son of Robert Dillon, 2nd Earl of Roscommon and his first wife Margaret Barry, daughter of David de Barry, 5th Viscount Buttevant. His family were traditionally members of the Roman Catholic faith, but James was converted to the Church of Ireland by James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh.
He married Elizabeth Wentworth, one of the sisters of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, Lord Deputy of Ireland, a marriage which was clearly intended to strengthen English rule in Ireland through family alliances between leading English and Anglo-Irish families. Wentworth Dillon was their son.[1] Carey Dillon, 5th Earl of Roscommon, was his younger half-brother.
He died at Limerick in October 1649, from an accidental fall downstairs.
Notes
- ↑ Olive Classe, Encyclopedia of literary translation into English (2000), p. 1187.
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| Preceded by | Earl of Roscommon 1642–1649 |
Succeeded by Wentworth Dillon |
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