Rowland FitzEustace, 1st Baron Portlester was an Irish peer, statesman and judge. He was one of the dominant political figures in late fifteenth-century Ireland, rivalled in influence probably only by
Right side of funerary effigy depicting Rowland FitzEustace, in St. Audoen's Church, Dublin
Funerary effigy of Rowland FitzEustace (above) and his third wife Margaret or Marguerite d'Artois (below)
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Thomas Archbold, or Thomas Galmole was a goldsmith and silversmith, who also qualified as a lawyer, and rose to become a senior Crown official and judge in Ireland in the late fifteenth and early sixt
Rowland FitzEustace, 1st Baron Portlester
…Portlester refused point-blank, thus making the conduct of official business impossible. The King went to considerable lengths to support Grey. He ordered Thomas Archbold (alias Galmole), the Master of the Royal Mint in Ireland, to strike a new Great Seal, declaring that the Seal held by Portlester was annulled and that…
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