Sir Dudley LOFTUS

1561 - 1616  (55 years)

• Name	Dudley LOFTUS
  Title	Sir
  Born	1561	Ire
  Gender	Male
  Died	1616	Knighted; of Rathfarnum Castle
  Person ID	I1714	Tarleton
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Adam LOFTUS,   b. 1533, Swineshead, Yorkshire ,   d. 05.04.1605, Episcopal Palace, Kavan St. Dublin  (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Jane PURDON,   b. 1540 C, Lurgan Race, Co Louth ,   d. 1595
  Married	1560
  Family ID	F748	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Viscountess Anne BAGENAL,   b. 1560 c,   d. of Rathfarnum Castle, Viscountess Sarsfield
  Children	1. Adam LOFTUS,   b. 1590, Rathfarnham, Dublin ,   d. Rathfarnham, Dublin
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2021
  Family ID	F1253	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  m. Anne Bagenal dau of Sir Nicholas Bagenal of Newry Abp. Adam Loftus?s eldest son Sir Dudley Loftus became head of the family in 1605 and himself died only eleven years later. He evidently chose not to accompany his parents in the family vault in the Cathedral where he himself was christened and married, which in itself is a mystery. Perhaps out of respect for his Father, or more likely to escape from beneath his over-bearing shadow or maybe he just he preferred to join the Knights' Templars at his Manor of Kilcloggan (formerly the Templar?s preceptory, now called Templetown)? Dudley marked a break in the families? use of the vault that was to skip a generation, so that none of Abp. Adam?s grandchildren are registered at St. Patrick?s. Whether this was intended or represents a gap in the record is not known. Nevertheless, Sir Dudley?s eldest son Sir Adam Loftus did break the seals to the vault twenty years later for his eldest daughter Letitia Parsons. Letitia was married to Richard Parsons in around 1632 and died at the age of 23 having born him a son and a daughter, who were both to join her in the Loftus family vault. Sir William Parsons was interred alongside his mother in the family vault in January 1659 only to be joined nine months later by his sister Jane (married to Captain Franke) both aged 26, both dying like their mother still young.