Jenet Sarsfield

Jenet Sarsfield, Baroness Dunsany (c. 1528–1598) was an Anglo-Irish noblewoman who lived in Dublin during the Tudor era. She is today chiefly memorable for having married no less than six husbands.

She was born in Meath, in or about the year 1528, daughter of the merchant John Sarsfield; very little appears to be known about her mother. Her brother William was an alderman of Dublin. Jenet's first husband was Robert Shilyngford, who was Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1534-5.They had one daughter, Katherine, who is thought to have been Jenet's only child who survived to adulthood. After Robert's death, Jenet married James Luttrell, third son of Sir Thomas Luttrell; James was High Sheriff of County Dublin in 1556, and died in 1557. Jenet was pregnant at the time but their child probably died at or shortly after birth.

After James Luttrell's death, Jenet married as his second wife Robert Plunkett, 5th Baron of Dunsany. The marriage was short-lived and their two sons probably died in infancy. Jenet in later years insisted on being described as the Dowager Lady Dunsany, despite her three further marriages.

Lord Dunsany died in 1559, and Jenet quickly remarried the former Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Sir Thomas Cusack. Cusack, who had been born about 1490, was old enough to be her grandfather. Although he was an immensely respected and upright public figure, his own marital career had been somewhat troubled. He had divorced his first wife Joan Hussey, and later refused to acknowledge that they had ever been married. His second wife, Maud Darcy, was widely believed to have conspired with her future second husband, Richard FitzGerald, to murder her first husband.

Maud's marriage to Cusack however was very happy, and there is no evidence that Cusack and Jenet were unhappy, although she quarreled bitterly with her stepson Edward Cusack.

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