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Born: ABT 1548
Father: Thomas LUTTRELL of Luttrellstown (Sir)
Mother: Elizabeth BATHE
Married 1: Dau. GAYDON
Children:
1. Thomas LUTTRELL of Luttrellstown
Married 2: Elizabeth FINGLAS
Children:
3. Nicholas LUTTRELL (d. 1610)
Simon Luttrell was only a youth at the time of his
father's, Sir Thomas, death, and six years after he succeeded to
Luttrellstown, in 1566, he entered Lincoln's Inn as a
student. He soon settled down to the duties of his
position, and we find him acting as a Commissioner for
the muster of the militia and sending two archers to the
hosting against Shane O'Neill, and three to the hosting
at Tara Hill.
He was twice married, his first wife being a Miss
Gaydon, and his second, who survived him, being Elizabeth, daughter of
Richard Finglas. Besides his
eldest son Thomas, he left several children, including a
daughter, who married Nicholas FitzSimons of
Baldoyle,
and a son Nicholas, who died in 1610.
In the previous year the latter made a will in which he
mentioned that he had intended "to apply his study
towards Oxford, then after to the Inns of Court",
but that through want of means "he had altered his
course" and intended to go into other countries
"where he might attain the faculty of physic".
Luttrellstown was then considered one of the principal
castles in the County Dublin. It had been, no doubt,
enlarged several times, and in his will Simon
Luttrell,
when directing that for some years the timber at
Luttrellstown should not be cut, excepts such as should
be required for the building, as well as the expense of
the house.
In his son's time we read of the great gallery furnished
with cupboards and iron-bound chests in which the family
papers were kept, and of the dining room with its
tapestry hangings. There was then a mill in full working
order on the lands, and at least one other house of
considerable size besides the castle, within the parish
of Clonsilla.
This house was occupied by a first cousin of the Chief
Justice's, Nicholas Luttrell, who appears from his will,
made in 1568, to have been a man of good position,
possessed of flocks and herds and much household goods,
including plate, which he divided amongst a somewhat
numerous family.
The next owner of Luttrellstown, Thomas Luttrell, the
eldest son of Simon Luttrell, was returned in 1613, with
his relative Sir Christopher Plunkett of Dunsoghly, as
Knight of the shire for the County Dublin, and took a
prominent part in public affairs as one of the leaders
of the Roman Catholic party in the House of Commons.
Sources:
Ball, Francis Elrington, "A History of the County
Dublin", Volume IV, Chapter 1.
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