Henry Talbot (landowner)

Sir Henry Talbot was an Irish landowner of the seventeenth century.

The Talbot family were part of the Old English community of The Pale which had remained Roman Catholic after the Irish Reformation. He possessed estates at Mount Talbot and Templeogue in County Dublin. His father was Robert Talbot of Templeogue (d. 1616), who married Eleanor, a daughter of Henry Colley, of Carbury Castle, County Kildare.

Following the Restoration of Charles II, he was accused of treasonous participation in the Irish Confederate Wars of the 1640s. However he was acquitted after being found to be an "innocent Papist", allowing him to recover estates which had confiscated by the English Republic during the Cromwell era. He married Margaret, the daughter of Sir William Talbot, 1st Baronet of Carton, County Kildare, and became the brother-in-law of Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell an influential figure who assisted in demonstrating his innocence.

Two of his sons William Talbot and James Talbot served as Colonels in the Jacobite Irish Army during the War of the Two Kings. They were killed at the Siege of Derry (1689) and the Battle of Aughrim (1691) respectively. Of his daughters, Elizabeth married the County Dublin landowner John Talbot, who was also an active Jacobite; and Mary married Theobald Dillon, 7th Viscount Dillon.