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De Meones family

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John's father, another Robert, was a man of considerable wealth, some of which probably came to him through his marriage to Elena Le Decer, John le Decer's daughter, as her father was a rich man, though he gave much of his money away in
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in 1382. His son Robert Meones, also of Ratoath, living in 1407, was a Crown official. In 1407 he was instructed to arrest John Brygges, who had been
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of Meonesrath. He was still living in 1399. In 1394 he inherited the estate of his cousin Nicholas, the judge. The family also held lands at
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In the 1520s and 1530s, a third William de Meones was granted lands in South Dublin: at Cullenswood (now
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Winetavern Street, Dublin: the de Meones family owned three houses here in the late fourteenth century
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Crooks, Peter "Negotiating Authority in a colonial capital: Dublin and the Windsor Crisis 1369-78"
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All Saints Church, East Meon: the de Meones family took their name from the village of East Meon
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The History and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathedral Church of St Patrick near Dublin"
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William died in 1325: his property passed to his nephew, Gilbert de Meones, a professional
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in 1378, but soon freed. He was also a man of property, who bought three houses on
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in 1374. During his somewhat turbulent career he was arrested for
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River Dodder, Rathgar: the de Meones family were local landowners
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following his death in 1284, and in that capacity he defended a
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Index

Anglo-Irish
Hampshire
Dublin
Rathmines

East Meon
William de Meones
Ireland
clerk
John de Derlington
Archbishop of Dublin
executor
lawsuit
Thomas de Chaddesworth
Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral
Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer
royal forest
Glencree
Wicklow Mountains
Manor of St. Sepulchre
ringfort

soldier
Constable
castles
Arklow
Newcastle Mackynegan
Powerscourt
Lord Mayor of Dublin
John Le Decer

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