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2 unusual facts about Hugh Tyrrel


Hugh Tyrrel

Ball considers the story most unlikely, noting that Tyrrel was renowned as a benefactor, not a despoiler of religious houses: in particular he made a substantial grant of lands in present-day Phoenix Park to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, whose Irish house was at Kilmainham.

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He was born in Hampshire, son of Hugh Tyrrel the elder, who held substantial lands in England, and was lord of Poix-de-Picardie in France.



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