High Treasurer of Ireland
Lord Kilcullen
1st Baron Portlester
"...from the Eustaces descended the Lords and Baron of Kilcullen,, Lord Baron Portlester, and the Viscounts of Baltinglass."
"Barony of Portlester. - Sir Eustace de Poher died A.D. 1311. From his eldest son have descended the Lords Power and Curraghmore, and from his second the FitzEustaces, or Eustaces. "Mark that the Eusteys descended lineally of the aforesaid Lord Ustas, which were very noble men in those days of knighthood and ability." The representative of the Eustaces in the fifteenth century was Sir Rowland FitzEustace, Lord of Kilcullen, Lord Deputy to the Duke of Clarence, and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, who, on the 5th of March, 1462, was created by patent "Lord and Baron of Portlester," to him and to the heirs male of his body. He died 14th December, 1496 leaving no male issue. His daughter, Alison, married Gerald FitzGerald, eighth Earl of Kildare."
Sources:
- person: Renaud de Paysac (an Historical Memoir of Poher, Poer, or Power by Gabriel O'C Redmond, (1891)), Renaud de Paysac
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