Adam LOFTUS

1533 - 1605  (72 years)

• Name	Adam LOFTUS
  Born	1533	Swineshead, Yorkshire   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Event	1558	Accession Elizabeth 1st. Declared himself Anglican
  Occupation	At Cambridge he took holy orders as a Catholic priest; appointed rector of Outwell St Clement in Norfolk
  Occupation	1561	Chaplain to Alexander Craik, Bishop of Kildare and Dean of St Patrick's in Dublin
  Occupation	1567	appointed Archbishop of Dublin
  Residence	1582	acquired land and built a castle at Rathfarnham, which he inhabited from 1585
  Occupation	1593	1st Proverst of Trinity College, Dublin
  Died	05.04.1605	Episcopal Palace, Kavan St. Dublin
  Buried	1605	St. Patrick's
  Person ID	I1717	Tarleton
  Last Modified	1 May 2021

  
  

  Father	Edward LOFTUS,   d. 1541, of Swineshead Yorks
  Family ID	F749	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane PURDON,   b. 1540 C, Lurgan Race, Co Louth ,   d. 1595
  Married	1560
  Children	1. Sir Dudley LOFTUS,   b. 1561, Ire ,   d. 1616, Knighted; of Rathfarnum Castle  (Age 55 years)   2. Martha LOFTUS,   b. 1575,   d. 1610  (Age 35 years) + 3. Sir Thomas LOFTUS,   d. 1 Dec 1635, Tymohogie, of Killyan, Meath
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2021
  Family ID	F748	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Lodge's Peerage of Ireland https://archive.org/details/peerageofireland07lodg/page/248 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Loftus_(archbishop) Adam and Jane Loftus were the parents of twenty children, eight of whom died in infancy.[2] The twelve who grew to adulthood were: 1. Sir Dudley Loftus, married Anne Bagenal (grandparents of Dudley Loftus, a pioneer scholar of Middle Eastern languages); 2. Sir Edward Loftus, married Anne Duke; 3. Adam Loftus, unmarried, killed in battle; 4. Sir Thomas Loftus, married Ellen Hartpole; 5. Henry Loftus, Thomas' twin, died in his teens; 6. Isabella Loftus, married William Usher; 7. Anne Loftus, married (i) Sir Henry Colley of Castle Carbury; (ii) George Blount; and (iii) Edward Blayney; 8. Jane Loftus, who married Sir Francis Berkeley and then Henry Berkeley; 9. Martha Loftus, who married Sir Thomas Colclough of Tintern Abbey, County Wexford, six times great-grandparents of Rogers Cotter; 10. Dorothy Loftus, married Sir John Moore of Croghan, also six times great-grandparents of Rogers Cotter; 11. Alice Loftus, married Sir Henry Warren of Warrenstown; and 12. Margaret Loftus, married Sir George Colley of Edenderry https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Loftus-18

  
  

• Sources

  [S176] Wikipedia, Wikipedia.