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Henry Heron (soldier)

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Henry Heron was an Irish soldier of the Tudor era. He was the son of Sir Nicholas Heron, an Englishman who had settled in Ireland and become a leading political and military figure. Henry became a brother-in-law to Sir Henry Bagenal and Dudley Bagenal, sons of another leading settler in Ireland Sir Nicholas Bagenal.

Henry was a landowner in County Carlow, where he became drawn into a violent dispute with the neighboring Kavanaghs. In 1586 along with his brother-in-law Dudley, he took part in an operation that captured and killed a leading Kavanagh. The following year Dudley was killed in a revenge ambush. By 1588 Heron had to petition the Crown for financial relief due to the attacks on his estates.

References

  1. Mahoney p.366-67
  2. Mahoney p.367

Bibliography

  • Mahoney, Edward (ed.). Philosophy and Humanism: Reinaissance Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller. Brill Archive, 1976.


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